The local Du-Par's Restaurant -- a pie-ish sort of place like a step up from Coco's and Bakers' Square -- got in some straight rhubarb the other day. That's the right way to do a rhubarb pie: meaning no deprecation of the excellence of fresh strawberries in a pie filling, cutting rhubarb by mixing in strawberries however excellent is missing the entire point. Rhubarb pies must have their zing, or the experience is lost. Du-Par's recognizes this, and for the people who think rhubarb isn't tart enough, they offer gooseberry too.
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