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Burgoo

In collecting material from every one of the forty-eight states for our coast-to-coast America Cooks we went right to the source-Mr. Sam W. Severance of Louisville, Kaintucky, Suh, who writes under the pen name of "The Burgoo-Master" in the Courier-Journal. And here is part of the elegant collection of recipes he sent us from his enthusiastic fans in the State that's "full of Colonels, and the Colonels full of corn." Mr. Severance also reminded us that no two recipes for burgoo are exactly alike and that the original one dates back to Esau who sold his birthright for a mess of it since the dictionary defines potage as "a stew of meat, or vegetables, or both," and that's precisely what a burgoo is.