16 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Feb. 2,. 1950
'Black-Eyed Pea Battle Rages
Between Virginia and Texas
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
(United Preu Stiff Correjpondent)
Washington, Feb. 2 (U.PJ You have the word of the senator:
Virginians are bigger and huskier than Texam because Vir
ginia womenfolks know how to cook black-eyed peas."
Sen. A. Willis Robertson of Lexington stood up, drummed his
chest, and submitted himself as a towering example. The demo
crat from Virginia is six feet 2 'A
Inches tall and said that his son
is the same height and weighs
more than 200 pounds.
Robertson was the host in
what was logged as the "second
round of the black-eyed peas
battle." On Jan. 19, Rep. Lindley
Beckworth of Gladewater, Tex.,
pitched a luncheon and served,
as a side dish, Texas black-eyed
peas flown from the Lone Star
state. Beckworth at the time
pronounced his peas unexcelled
of course.
Yesterday, Robertson replied
in kind with a luncheon for
Beckworth and Senator Tom
Connally, D., Tex.
It was listed as a "contest but
there was no decision."
Robertson said his peas were
furnished by Henry Taylor of
Walkerton, Va., "one of the best
pea-growers in the nation."
The big, graying gentleman
from Virginia wasn't bashful in
his praise of the black-eyed peas
produced in his state.
"Of course," said the senator,
"we must recognize the fact that
no black-eyed pea can rise above
the quality of its chef. That prin
cipally is where the Virginia
product excels. Virginia house
wives know the flavoring qua
lities of Smithfield cured hog
jowl and that flavoring is
deftly added to Virginia peas."
Robertson seemed amazed to
learn that everybody in the
world did not know that corn
bread made of "flinty white corn
ground on a stone slowly turned
by water power" makes a fine
"with it" for black-eyed peas.
"In the summer," he added
"of course you serve good old
corn pone, made of nothing but
meal with salt and water and
cooked quickly in a hot oven
and eaten while steaming hot.
In the late winter and early
spring, the Virginia housewife
serves tender, succulent turnip
greens with black-eyed peas and
corn bread accompanied by
freshly churned buttermilk, as
cool as the dew on white clover
and speckled with yellow butter
as though it had been sprinkled
with gold dust. In summer, the
accompanying vegetables are
stewed tomatoes with bread
crumbs and sugar, plus corn
puddin', rich with cream."
At his luncheon, the Virginian
dished up peas cooked his way
and the Texas way.
He announced to his guests
that he hoped "my Texas friends
will not think I am taking unfair
advantage of the Texas growers
if I slipped a little hog jowl in
with the peas. That's the way
we do it at home, where we pro
duce the best black-eyed peas
in the world."
As a teaser, the senator
passed out saucers of Texas peas.
"These," he said, "are pre
pared with a piece of white
bacon. You can smell the differ
ence." He invited comment.
There was a loud slupping of
peas around the table as the
guests from Texas gave the two
dishes an "honest test."
Then the man from Virginia
got his comment.
It came from Beckworth, who
admitted he had enjoyed his
meal, and thanked his colleague
for same.
"But senator," he said. "You
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