Some people swear it tastes like soap and even its aficionados must admit that violet is an acquired taste. You can see it, as a color and you can pick it, as a flower – but taste violet? For nearly… Read More ›
State Pies
Once Banned in Boston: Mince No Pie in the Old Bay State
Cakes may rise and fall on matters as minor as baking powder but for some pies it is a matter of politics. Christmas Day is over but in earlier times, it was simply a highpoint of the long winter days… Read More ›
Sooner Pecan Pie of Oklahoma! It’s Official
Georgians are affronted but politely just appear startled, having historically harvested the largest annual crop of pecans. The nut is the second leading crop of New Mexico, but as the runaway leading state for chili peppers, it hums along. Texans… Read More ›
Lime, Salt & Peggy Lee: The Texas Margarita Pie
It’s a long, winding trail to the Margarita Pie of Texas, with detours along the Mexican border, intoxicating flights of imagination to Bali, even speculation into the private life of the marriage of singer Peggy Lee and her husband. Among… Read More ›
Orange Pie Here I Come: California’s Sweetest Slice of Sun
There’s something to the magic alchemy of golden sun and cool air of California that makes its oranges all the plumper and shinier. The sweet fruit has proved to be not only the crucial draw of the initial masses of… Read More ›
Hoosier Sugar Cream Finger Pie, from the Indy 500 to the Quakers: Pies of the States
Yesterday during this last weekend in May, almost always on Memorial Day, is the traditional time for the famous Indianapolis 500 Race. What does it have in common with the Quakers? Both are quintessentially Indianian and part of the enduring… Read More ›
Tennessee’s Jack & Mary Fudge Pie
Many people recognize the taste of Jack & Coke from a sip. One bite will never let you forget Jack & Mary. Since it first filtered the fresh spring water of local caves through a sour corn mash into barrels… Read More ›
The Saucy Pie of Granite State Skinflints
Massachusetts is the big, important state which dominates New England. Tell that to New Hampshire. When it comes to Marlborough Pie, at least, New Hampshire has the granite edge on the Bay State. Kevin Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, authors of… Read More ›
Marion Berry: Not the DC Mayor, the Oregon Pie
Washington, D.C.’s imprisoned and re-elected mayor (1979-1991; 1995-1999) is Marion Barry. Oregon’s longish, glossy, purple fruit is the Marion Berry. And that makes Marionberry Pie the unofficial though unchallenged State Pie of Oregon. Found in profusion along Willamette Valley vines each… Read More ›
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