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At the Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium earlier this month, there was a debate on pie vs cake. On team pie: Eatocracy's Kat Kinsman ("It eschews geometric perfection and requires no extra adornment"). On team cake: the New York Times' Kim Severson ("The cake, I put to you, is the sweet tangible talisman of the South"). [NYT]