Sweet Land of Liberty A History of America in 11 Pies

With corresponding recipes for each chapter and sidebars of quirky facts throughout, this book-winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Award for Best Literary or Historical Food Writing-is an entertaining, informative, and utterly charming food history for bakers, dessert lovers, and history aficionados alike.
Ultimately, the story of pie is the story of America itself, and it's time to dig in.
From the pumpkin pie gracing the Thanksgiving table to the apple pie at the Fourth of July picnic, nearly every American shares a certain nostalgia for a simple circle of crust and filling. But America's history with pie has not always been so sweet.
After all, it was a slice of cherry pie at the Woolworth's lunch counter on a cool February afternoon that helped to spark the Greensboro sit-ins and ignited a wave of anti-segregation protests across the South during the civil rights movement. Molasses pie, meanwhile, captures the legacies of racial trauma and oppression passed down from America's history of slavery, and Jell-O pie exemplifies the pressures and contradictions of gender roles in an evolving modern society.
We all know the warm comfort of the so-called "All-American" apple pie . . . but just how did pie become the symbol of a nation?
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