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Article: Seeing green over true Key lime pie
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2002
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Seeing green over true Key lime pie
By NEIL ROSENBERGSpecial to the Journal Sentinel
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Davie, Fla. -- The quickest way to a bar fight in Key West doesn't
involve which of Ernest Hemingway's novels was his best. There is a
more fractious issue -- whether you use egg whites or whipped cream -
- or neither -- when making the custardlike filling of a Key lime
pie.
Key lime pie, you see, is to a citizen of the conch republic, or
any South Floridian for that matter, as critical to the culinary
culture as a lobster roll in Cape Cod, a bratwurst in Sheboygan, a
Philly cheese steak in the city of Brotherly Love or a Taylor Pork
Roll in New Jersey.
I remember when I first ...