Sarah Marshall

And if you don't have it, you're thinking about it more.

Right.

You're thinking about it more.

Exactly.

Let me read to you a little bit about pie.

I love hearing about pie.

Okay.

So this is from a book called Midwest Pie.

This is from the introduction, which is by Phoebe McGrath.

In these early colonial days, pies were practical foods.

They created their own gravy and could be a complete meal on their own.

they also gave bakers an easy way to use odds and ends leftovers and dried produce it was the perfect culinary standby for yankees who like to think of themselves as thrifty pragmatic and full of common sense

By the mid-19th century, pie had become much more than a practicality.

It was a favorite breakfast of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and some people ate it three times a day.

One British journalist visiting the East Coast wrote that, quote, an unholy appetite for pie works untold woes in the American public, thus cementing the new country's love for pie as a nationalist snub of the stuffy Brits.

Rudyard Kipling, who lived outside Brattleboro, Vermont between 1892 and 1896, somewhat derisively called New England the Great Pie Belt due to the dish's prominent position in the region.

As more Europeans settled in the Midwest, they found that local ingredients like choked cherries, persimmons, and black walnuts could all be incorporated into pie at will to make something delicious.

In 1851, a Norwegian immigrant living in Beloit, Wisconsin, penned a letter home that read, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries thrive here.

From these, they make a wonderful dish combined with syrup and sugar, which is called...

I can tell you that is something that glides easily down your throat.