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Making wine may not be as American as cherry pie, but the tradition is a lot older than the Constitution. French Huguenot settlers fermented juice from Florida's native muscadine grapes as early as 1565. In the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson scoured France for cuttings to replant at Monticello, his Virginia estate. (None took root, alas.) And Count Agoston Haraszthy, the patriarch of California vintners, started his first U.S. vineyard at what is now the Wollersheim winery in Prairie du Sac, Wis., in 1847. During the 19th century, wines from Ohio and Missouri won gold medals in European competitions, but thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Chateau Bubba Grows Up | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...towns surrounding Plymouth, people will gorge themselves on turkey dinner and go to the high school football game, eat pumpkin pie and, perhaps, go to sleep. But what do prominent, even famous, people do during the November holiday...

Author: By Angelina M. Snodgrass, | Title: Famous People Eat Turkey Too | 11/21/1990 | See Source »

However, Quezada said the prospect of earning more than $8 an hour serving pie is an adequate comfort...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Nothing Like Home | 11/21/1990 | See Source »

...wants to know, did Georgie Porgie kiss the girls and make them cry? "Because he's mean," I say, with a sinking feeling, for how can this be the right answer? As the rollicking little rhyme makes all too clear, young George is a clever rogue, all pudding and pie; the tearful girls are merely boring. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers of daughters: to raise my child to be confident, adventurous and happy in her gender in a society saturated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgie Porgie Is a Bully | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...Apple pie should be heated, not cold...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: The Purity of Baseball | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

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