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...giant company bought out a local pie plant in 1979, the writing was on the wall for any prospective local competitor. One rival, frustrated by the pie-slice prohibition, tried something especially bold last year. She mashed up her pies, put the fragments in plastic cups and called them cobbler. No trouble from the pie police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cherry Pie Monopoly: Sliced! | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...true gem of the menu is the Warm Berry Cobbler, with New England-grown blueberries and raspberries, which are tiny yet satisfy the palate with a wonderful flavor. It wasn't Haagen Dazs, but the oatmeal topping can compensate. Moreover, the dish arrives at the perfect temperature...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: hoppin | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

Before becoming the home of the Cambridge Toy Box, the Spite Building has served as a cobbler's shop, candy store, newspaper storage area and shoe store, Hardina said...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Oddly Shaped Store Has a Quirky Past | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

...Supreme Court decision--declaring the Second and 11th Districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered on the basis of race--has made this year's Georgia election something of a peach cobbler. All the state's 11 congressional districts had to be redrawn; African Americans lost their majority in two of three districts. Though conservative Republicans saw this upheaval as an opportunity, Cynthia McKinney is on track to defeat those expectations--and perhaps the odds--in the newly constituted Fourth. And the question much of the nation is asking is whether Newt Gingrich will be gone with the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: GEORGIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...they are. Riding home on Air Force One two weeks ago, Clinton chatted off the record for nearly two hours on everything from the new Redford movies, the pitfalls of instant information, the prospect of living past 100, the importance of cheap vacations to American culture, global warming, peach cobbler and the NCAA basketball playoffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW AGE OF ANXIETY | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

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