Pecan Pies Southern Culinary history has to contend with more than the usual load of bs, as local boosters like to claim origins of dishes that go on the become icons of regional foodways. Pecan pies, Pecan pies, you sit upon a throne of lies!. Now some lies, provided they are lurid enough, ingenious enough, and peopled with enough striking characters to merit attention as examples of the art of story telling. Unfortunately no such artistry adorns the lies told about the origins of pecan pie. The fictions are simply bald prevarication. No evidence. No paper trail. Just groundless assertion, or surmise, often in the face of counter indications. So let us ponder some of the origin of pecan pie stories. #1. The Louisiana Lie. [Tori Avey, et al.] Shortly after the French settled La Louisiane they encountered the Choctaw pecans, loved them, and with them concocted pecan pie. Problems with this story--
ISSUE 35, PIES, Part 2: Pecan Pies
ISSUE 35, PIES, Part 2: Pecan Pies
ISSUE 35, PIES, Part 2: Pecan Pies
Pecan Pies Southern Culinary history has to contend with more than the usual load of bs, as local boosters like to claim origins of dishes that go on the become icons of regional foodways. Pecan pies, Pecan pies, you sit upon a throne of lies!. Now some lies, provided they are lurid enough, ingenious enough, and peopled with enough striking characters to merit attention as examples of the art of story telling. Unfortunately no such artistry adorns the lies told about the origins of pecan pie. The fictions are simply bald prevarication. No evidence. No paper trail. Just groundless assertion, or surmise, often in the face of counter indications. So let us ponder some of the origin of pecan pie stories. #1. The Louisiana Lie. [Tori Avey, et al.] Shortly after the French settled La Louisiane they encountered the Choctaw pecans, loved them, and with them concocted pecan pie. Problems with this story--