Tierney quoted in Moneyish article on affinity for fall

Amber Tierney, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Moneyish article “Your love for fall isn’t basic — it’s baked in.” The article focused on subconscious reasons many people may have for loving the fall season, from the sensations of both nostalgia and newness to temporal landmarks like fall holidays and the beginning of the school year. Tierney, a “self-professed fall enthusiast,” said fall means indulging in stews, grains, root vegetables, red meats and pies. “Obviously we crave those types of food, and we kind of have an excuse now to eat them with abandon,” said Tierney. “There’s something just from a base human level that’s really satisfying about existing in a season in which it’s OK, encouraged, to eat foods like that. It’s embedded in that time and place. You look forward to eating those foods all year long … and for some reason, we only allow ourselves to do those things during fall.”