For dinner, Karzai joined the first family for some all-American fare: fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, cheese and garlic biscuits and pineapple upside down cake.

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In his hands, such a challenge hardly seems a chore: Dishes like a warm salad of mushroom and roasted squash, or a lettuce, green onion and cheese tart, are surprising and sustaining "proper food" in every sense.

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For example, green packaging is for cheese and onion crisps (or chips for our American cousins).

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For one thing, it already had the white-and-green thing going, and ricotta is not all that far off from goat cheese.

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Tart-skinned green or yellow plum varieties are best for this jam, which pairs beautifully with hard sharp cheese.

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"Surely, by now, visions of dogwoods and azaleas are dancing in your head and you can almost taste the pimento cheese sandwiches, " Golf Pride says in promoting its new, limited-edition, green-and-white grips.

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The iron stove had a cast-iron warmer on the top, and in that warmer would be pork roasts and pork chops and fried chicken, two gallon pots of butter beans with salt pork, navy beans with ham bone, rattlesnake beans glistening with bacon fat, pans of chicken and dressing, macaroni and cheese, cornbread and cathead biscuits, mounds of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, skillets of fried green tomatoes.

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