THE LIFE OF PIE: HOME-BAKEDTRADITIONS INSPIRE GOURMET REVIVALS

摘要

Pie is riding high. For far too long, it languished at the back of the culinary showcase, while cupcakes and other dessert crazes gained the limelight. Pie-making workshops and parties are the rage today, and entire bakeries are flourishing with a menu of nothing but pie. Some say pie is the new "it" dessert.Pie has come a long way, baby. It originated in Egypt, and the first pie recipe was recorded in Greece. Pie's renewed popularity, perhaps, is predictable in an era when so many women are intimidated by the prospect of making a pie crust. You know the expression, "Easy as pie!" Well, not so much.I grew up in a home where Sunday dinner was incomplete without Mom's homemade pie. I stood beside her at the kitchen counter and learned how to make it. I even received a 4-H state runner-up ribbon for an apple pie at the Woodbury County (Iowa) Fair.