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For large family meals we never coordinate who brings dessert, so we always end up with the equivalent of about one pie per person; if only we could each eat a whole one. Since the best part of Thanksgiving for me besides the food is being able to spend time with my family, each pie at my all pie meal would represent a different person at the table.

Grandma Joyce: Banana cream pie. She only whips out this recipe for special occasions since it takes so long to make, but we all love it

Grandpa Allen: Apple pie. Despite our best efforts to convert him to the joys of Strawberry-rhubarb or even peach, apple remains his favorite.

Dad: Deep Dish Pizza Pie, Chicago style. Never much for sweets, seems appropriate.

Mom: Pastel de choclo (Chilean corn and meat pie). Far and away the best cook in our family. She picked this recipe up when we lived in Chile for a year

Peter, my younger brother: Pumpkin Pie, a must. In our back garden he is in charge of the pumpkin plant and grew extremely attached to the harvest. This Thanksgiving we are making pumpkin pie with his pumpkins, no canned pumpkin for us.

Me: Cherry Cobbler. While I love to eat other people’s cooking, I can’t really cook myself. This is the only pie recipe I can make, and it’s not even a proper pie.