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.

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Stuff ourselves full of turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving then gorge our way through the rest of holiday season.

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"I like pumpkin pie, butter cookies, anything that has that combination of spices and gives you the impression of being at home, " she says.

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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.

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Serve with a side of pumpkin pie.

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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.

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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.

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And here, he has wavered from the strict pumpkin-pie routine, by adding sweet potatoes to the mix.

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The cooking is hearty fare: roast Patagonian lamb that slides off the bone, homemade pumpkin tart followed by apple pie.

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