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Aunt Fanny's Cabin, 14 miles from Atlanta. Converted 160-year-old slave quarters jammed with antique spinning wheels and the like. The food is authentically old-fashioned Southern: gumbo soup with okra, crisp, deep-fried chicken, squash casserole and potatoes baked in resin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The East: TWENTY-TWO RESTAURANTS WELL WORTH THE TRIP | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...Pickled okra. Spinach soufflé. Double divinity. Et, mon Dieu, ze bar-bé-cue! Escoffier would have turned in his grave. Last week White House Chef René Verdon, who is only mortal, turned in his apron instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Adieu to Pease Porridge | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...Among them: onions, okra, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, beets, tomatoes, rhubarb, sweet corn, potatoes, turnips, snap beans, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, sweet potatoes, musk melon, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, eggplant, pumpkin, Brussels sprouts, parsley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: How to Shoot Santa Claus | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...Pickled Okra & Oil Lamps. In some ways, Lady Bird's tastes are militantly homespun. Her favorite recipes are for turkey dressing, spinach souffle, double divinity and pickled okra. She likes to watch television, talk on the telephone, hunt deer, shoot doves, take home movies. She recalls with pride her childhood on an isolated Texas farm: "I used an oil lamp until I was nine years old, and I can remember what a big day it was when we finally got indoor plumbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Getting Over the Tourist Feeling | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

Regarding your reproduction of Goldberg's Summer House: I looked for the summer house, winter house, then just any house, but failing to find one played the game of hidden pictures instead. I was rewarded to find a masked thug, Dick Tracy, okra, and a hound dog baying at the moon while bleeding from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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