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Contrary to grade school theater productions across the United States, there was no modern-day pie - pumpkin, pecan or otherwise - at the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621. Pilgrims brought English-style, meat-based recipes with them to the colonies. While pumpkin pie, which is first recorded in a cookbook in 1675, originated from British spiced and boiled squash, it was not popularized in America until the early 1800s. Historians don't know all the dishes the Pilgrims served in the first Thanksgiving feast, but primary documents indicate that pilgrims cooked with fowl and venison - and it's not unlikely that...
David Williams met the modern world in a little town square shaded by pecan and oak trees in remote West Texas, and it was hard to know which found the other more bewildering. The 32-year-old welder wore his hair slicked in a bygone style and sometimes stammered as he spoke in a flat monotone about prophets and the trials sent by God to test him. His cryptic words were directed to a group of people holding television cameras and microphones and tape recorders, people whose impressions of Williams then flashed by satellite and digital relays to households around...
...battle of Obama vs. Clinton were being told by a Hollywood filmmaker instead of by the muse of history, the opening scene would be set beneath the spreading pecan trees of the Scholz Garten in Austin, Texas. Of all the beer joints in all the world, this venerable watering hole near the state capitol may come closest to the heart of Texas' Democratic Party. Liberals have been hatching plans here since Lyndon Johnson was a big-eared kid, and for a few months in 1972, it was the venue of choice for the young organizers of George McGovern's quixotic...
...gather at Scholz Garten, an old-style German beer garden near the capitol. It is a mythic place for Texas liberal Democrats - Davis said his activist parents hung out there 30 years ago - and many of the state's legendary progressives have gathered under the old pecan trees to weep in their beer and berate conservative Democrats and, later in the state's history, Republicans. It is the spot where in 1972, back in the days when they were anti-establishment foot soldiers in the George McGovern campaign, the young, long-haired Bill Clinton and his bespectacled law student wife...
...searching on terms related to my favorite thing: food. Recipe searches reveal that most of us don't start menu planning until Thanksgiving week. And if last year is any indication, they also reveal that our favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner is the holy trinity of desserts: "pumpkin pie," "pecan pie" and "apple pie." After desserts, people search mostly for the old standbys - "sweet potato casserole" and "green bean casserole." Turkey-themed MySpace profile's excepted, its nice to see that some things never change...