Penelope Pies

The Greeks invented pie crust. For Greek warriors, pie was takeout. Then the Romans knocked it off and took it all over the world. Although the Roman fascination with plumbing and bathing never really caught on in England, the conquerors’ pie shells did. In the 15th century, English and European pyes were everywhere, except they […]

Not that Penelope is competitive about pie baking, because she’s not a professional baker or even a proficient enough amateur to steal a glance over the blue ribbon wall, but when her neighbor, Katherine, came over with a piece of the very first pie she had ever baked in her life, and the crust was […]