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The apple pie (of course, with my mother) became the nation's symbolic food.

The apple pie (of course, with my mother) became the nation's symbolic food.

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September 9th, 2026

The apple pie (of course, with my mother) became the nation's symbolic food.

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The pastry crust boasts a crisp, flaky texture, baked to a resplendent golden hue.

パイ生地はサクサクとした食感で見事な黄金色に焼き上げられている

Apple juice bubbles forth from the vents, while the rich, aromatic scent of cinnamon wafts through the surrounding air.

リンゴの果汁がベントから泡立ちシナモンの芳醇な香りが周囲に漂い渡る

For me, apple pie is not merely a confection but a source of emotional solace and the sole traditional ritual I share with my family.

アップルパイは私にとって単なる菓子ではなく心の拠り所であり家族と共に作る唯一の伝統的な営みである

On a surface dusted with flour, I roll the dough to an even thickness, delicately crimp the edges into a fluted pattern with my fingertips, and then thinly peel the succulent apples before dicing them into uniform pieces.

小麦粉を打ち粉した台の上で生地を均一な厚さに伸ばし、指先で繊細に縁を波形に整えそして瑞々しいリンゴの皮を薄く剥き均等な小片に刻んでいく

My mother, who guards the flame of our family oven, hints that she would stop at nothing to preserve Grandmother Fleischer's recipe.

我が家のオーブンの火を守る母は祖母フライシャーのレシピを守るためならどんな手段も辞さないとほのめかしている

When my wife, then my girlfriend, first came to our home and baked a pie with us, my mother told her, "Now you must marry me."

当時ガールフレンドだった妻が初めて家に来て一緒にパイを焼いた時母は彼女に「もうあなたは私と結婚しなければならないわと言った

(She probably feared the consequences, and so she did marry me.)

彼女はおそらく報いを恐れて実際に結婚した。)

We do not concern ourselves with the fact that this dessert did not originate in America.

このデザートがアメリカ発祥でないことは気にしない

We have claimed it as our culinary manifest destiny.

我々はそれを美食の明白な運命として主張してきた

Settlers brought apples with them, Johnny Appleseed scattered their seeds far and wide, and in time we became a nation of apple pie.

入植者がリンゴを持ち込みジョニー・アップルシードがその種を遠くまで広め、やがて我々はアップルパイの国となった

"Mother and apple pie"a beloved shorthand for quintessential Americanaappeared time and again in the columns of last century's journalists.

「母とアップルパイ」愛され、典型的なアメリカらしさを表す略語—は、前世紀の記者たちの記事に繰り返し登場する

Soldiers between the two world wars yearned ceaselessly for the apple pies of home.

両大戦間の兵士たちは故郷のアップルパイを切望してやまなかった

When a mother from Texas sent a single pie to the Soviet mission in Manhattan as a gift for Nikita Khrushchev during his visit to the United States, it was mistaken for a bomb, escalating into an incident that shut down several blocks of Midtown.

テキサス出身の母親が訪米中のニキータ・フルシチョフに贈るためマンハッタンのソ連代表部へパイを一個送ったところ、それが爆弾と誤認されミッドタウンの数ブロックが封鎖される騒動に発展した

The 1960s were a tumultuous era in which overseas wars, assassinations, and domestic social unrest converged.

1960年代は海外における戦争暗殺事件そして国内の社会的不安が交錯する tumultuous な時代であった

In the midst of such chaos, McDonald's introduced a form of solacea rectangular fried apple pieas a kind of soothing balm for the spirit.

そうした混沌の只中にあって、マクドナルドは長方形のフライドアップルパイという形の一種の心の慰めとなる緩和剤を世に送り出したのである。

It was in a lecture course on post-World War II American history that I acquired my knowledge of that era and of that pie.

私がその時代そのパイについての知識を得たのは、第二次世界大戦後のアメリカ史を扱う講義においてであった。

During the first week, we were required to submit something emblematic of America.

最初の週、私たちはアメリカを象徴するもの提出しなければならなかった

Holding a worldview steeped in "mother and apple pie," I submitted a photograph of a bald eagle.

「母とアップルパイ」の世界観を持つ私は白頭ワシの写真提出した

Professor Bill Schechter, a devotee of the counterculture, was utterly unimpressed.

カウンターカルチャー信奉者であるビル・シェクター先生まったく感心しなかった。

Then two female students submitted McDonald's apple pies, which represented the corporate and consumerist forces that had supplanted home cooking.

それから二人の女子生徒マクドナルドのアップルパイ提出しそれが母の手料理取って代わった企業と消費主義表していた

Professor Schechter sprang up from his chair and placed the small box on the chalkboard ledge.

シェクター教授は勢いよく椅子から立ち上がり、その小さな箱を黒板の棚に置いた

It was both a memento of the class and an experiment to determine how long a pie laden with preservatives could endure.

それは授業の記念品であると同時に保存料をふんだんに含んだパイがどれほど長持ちするかを検証する試みでもあった。

Several years later, Professor Schechter noted via email that the pie "looked as fresh as ever."

数年後そのパイは「以前と変わらず新鮮に見えた」とシェクター先生は電子メールで述べた

He reminded me that apple pie had been the staple sustenance for the awe-inspiring cross-continental journey in Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road,' though it was not of the McDonald's variety.

彼はアップルパイがジャック・ケルアックの『オン・ザ・ロード』における目を見張る大陸横断の旅の主要な糧だったことを想起させてくれたが、それはマクドナルド製のものではなかった

That mass-produced pie symbolises the moment I began to perceive America from a different perspective.

その量産パイは、私がアメリカを別の視点から見始めた瞬間を象徴している

There exists a tension and conflict therein, whereby the vast majority of ordinary people retain their integrity and warmth, even as they live under the shadow of a force that is at once great and, at times, unsettling.

そこには緊張と対立があり大多数の普通の人々は誠実さと甘さを保つ一方で彼らは偉大でありながら時に不気味な力の影の下で暮らしている

McDonald's has reintroduced its fried apple pie to the market in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America.

マクドナルドはアメリカ合衆国建国250周年を記念してフライドアップルパイを再び市場に投入した

Like Kerouac, I have a preference for the homemade variety.

ケルアックと同様に私は自家製のものを選好する

However, I would ask that you refrain from prying into the secret recipe behind it.

ただしその秘伝のレシピについては詮索しないでいただきたい

This investigation was conducted by Sarit Hand, the corporate archivist at the Associated Press.

この調査はAP通信の企業アーキビストであるサリット・ハンド担当した

This article is part of the ongoing series "Things of America," commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.

本稿はアメリカ合衆国建国250周年を記念した連載企画「アメリカの物」一部である

For further articles on "Things of America," please refer to this link, and for other pieces related to the anniversary, kindly consult this one.

その他の「アメリカの物」に関する記事こちら建国記念に関連するその他の記事こちらをご参照いただきたい

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