Although your dining room table or serving cart may not hold any surpises or “lively” content, highly animated pies or “pyes” were often presented as live banquet entertainment in jolly old England’s 17th century. The nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence . . . four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie,” was quite [...]

According to traditions and statistics the chances are good that your Thanksgiving dining room table will hold one or more of the five most popular pies in America – apple, pumpkin, chocolate, lemon meringue or cherry. With the average American eating at least six slices of pie every year it goes without saying that pie [...]