While the English are inexplicably fond of meat pies, pie in America tends to be sweet. Tarts are thought of as a type of pie, but really, they are not sweet enough to make the cut. In general, a pie must be baked and have a crust on its top or bottom or both. To some degree, pies suffer from a problem of definition. I think that is where the emotional response comes from.” Peach pie puts you squarely in summer, pumpkin at Thanksgiving. If you put a pie on a table, it always seem to take you back to a time in your life. “You look at a cake almost like a piece of architecture, but pies give you an emotional response. “The reaction to a nice cake is almost more intellectual,” said Ken Haedrich, author of the cookbook “Pie” and dean of the Pie Academy, an online pie-making school. Charlie Price, a 10-year-old Washington boy who prefers Key lime to chocolate cake on his birthday, said, “I love pie for its pie-ness.” Fruit, goo, pastry: pie tells the truth about itself.
In her last book, Nora Ephron, mulling her own demise, listed pie among the things she would miss most. Pie shows the world its true face, often homely, with fruit oozing from its center, its edges sadly singed.īut pie is whimsical no one throws a German chocolate cake in anyone’s face. Cake wears makeup - decorative adornments, cursive writing, curlicues. The pie is humble, even a bit needy, and rarely gets its dinner-party due, sidelined instead to church bake sales, roadside stands and degrading eating contests. Pie lovers are seduced by personality.Ĭake is a tall preener, calling out from the center of the dining room table, but often disappointing with overly cloying frosting or a crumb that proves less than moist. Farrar’s Julian Home (1859): “He made up for the dirt they had been eating by the splendour of his entertainment.Cake fans are taken in by looks. The analogy to eating dirt is self-evident. This explanation appeared in 1830 in Vocabulary of East Anglia by Robert Forby. The source of humble pie is less far-fetched it is a corruption of (or pun on) umble-pie, “umbles” being dialect for the heart, liver, and entrails of the deer, which were fed to the hunt’s beaters and other servants while the lord and his guests ate the choice venison.
The American obeyed, but when the officer returned his gun, he took his revenge and made the Briton eat the rest of the bird. The officer then pointed the gun and said that as punishment for trespassing the American must take a bite out of the crow. He was caught by an unarmed British officer who, by complimenting him on his fine shooting, persuaded him to hand over his gun. A story cited by Charles Funk and published in the Atlanta Constitution in 1888 claims that toward the end of the War of 1812, during a temporary truce, an American went hunting and by accident crossed behind the British lines, where he shot a crow. The origin of the first is not known, although it is generally acknowledged that the meat of a crow tastes terrible. All these expressions date from the early nineteenth century, eating crow from America and eating humble pie and dirt from Britain. To acknowledge an embarrassing error and humiliatingly abase oneself.
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