Start the conversations over your pumpkin pie or while booing or cheering a football game.
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But search for my mom's pumpkin pie recipe, and you'll come up empty.
Stuff ourselves full of turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving then gorge our way through the rest of holiday season.
"I like pumpkin pie, butter cookies, anything that has that combination of spices and gives you the impression of being at home, " she says.
If the foundation of a pie especially a custard pie like a pumpkin pie is too dry or too wet, it could crumble apart or slide off forks.
"When you bake a custard pie a pumpkin pie is custard, because it has dairy and eggs you don't want it to be fully set in the center, " Kimball said.
To get those risks under control and give home chefs a chance to impress their guests this holiday season we asked chef Chris Kimball of America's Test Kitchen to share his recipe for the perfect pumpkin pie.
Though the hotel's designer, Tara Bernerd, is British -- and contemporary pieces from local artists Miranda Donovan and Mat Collishaw hang in the halls -- a combination of new leather, a spacious fitness center and a retro restaurant serving upgraded burgers, shrimp cocktails and pumpkin pie are pure Americana.
This survey (which the Pew people have conducted in each presidential cycle since 1996) has provided the premise for a number of news stories raising concerns about the younger generation's information diet: by getting information directly from topical comics, the metaphorical argument goes, they are skipping their spinach and going straight for the pumpkin pie.
And here, he has wavered from the strict pumpkin-pie routine, by adding sweet potatoes to the mix.
The cooking is hearty fare: roast Patagonian lamb that slides off the bone, homemade pumpkin tart followed by apple pie.
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