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Bean Pie: Iconic African-American-Islamic dessert
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    - June 21st, 2009, 6:53 pm
    - June 21st, 2009, 6:53 pm Post #1 - June 21st, 2009, 6:53 pm
    tatterdemalion and I ran across this dessert at an Azorean Portuguese restaurant, Tabacaria Acoreana, in Fall River, MA. It was billed as "Bean Pudding, a traditional dessert". In comparison to the Supreme Bean Pie, it had no discernable spices, just beans, sugar, egg and possibly vanilla. The texture was interesting, similar to that of pecan pie without the pecans. It had very tiny pieces of bean skin, which gave the effect of very finely chopped coconut.

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    I wonder what, if any, connection there is between this dessert and the African-American bean pie, but I will leave that for Rene G to sort out.
    Man : I can't understand how a poet like you can eat that stuff.
    T. S. Eliot: Ah, but you're not a poet.

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