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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

a meal from the oven, one crust or two

to begin – a reverse pie

a soupe veloutée of butternut squash and leeks topped with a parmesan puff pastry crust

to entice – a shift for the palette

cranberry salsa and fresh pea purée in baked wonton shells

to enjoy – an old favorite revised

smoked turkey and Swiss chard layered with crisp phyllo dough, served with sauce chasseur and crème fraîche

to complete – a clean and bright classic

orchard fresh apples, studded with sweet butter and cinnamon, baked in a straight pastry crust topped with sweet whipped cream laced with house-infused vanilla liqueur

urbancook at 5:33PM on 11/17/06

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From Serious Eats

The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

a meal from the oven, one crust or two

to begin – a reverse pie

a soupe veloutée of butternut squash and leeks topped with a parmesan puff pastry crust

to entice – a shift for the palette

cranberry salsa and fresh pea purée in baked wonton shells

to enjoy – an old favorite revised

smoked turkey and Swiss chard layered with crisp phyllo dough, served with sauce chasseur and crème fraîche

to complete – a clean and bright classic

orchard fresh apples, studded with sweet butter and cinnamon, baked in a straight pastry crust topped with sweet whipped cream laced with house-infused vanilla liqueur

urbancook at 5:33PM on 11/17/06

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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

I just changed two words tonight, I hope I didn't blow the deadline; my initial post was written on Friday. Good luck to all, and Happy Turkey and Pie Day!

Barbara Hanson at 11:28PM on 11/19/06

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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

EDITORIAL

New York Times, 1902

"It is utterly insufficient (to eat pie only twice a week), as anyone who knows the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished."

In response to an Englishman’s suggestion that Americans should reduce their daily pie eating to two days per week.

graffito at 9:22PM on 11/18/06

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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

Hah!

1. Rosie's Bakery, Cambridge MA: APPLE PIE.

Because it's THANKSGIVING.

Because it's APPLE PIE.

Because Apple Pie is REALLY GOOD.

Because Rosie's is REALLY GOOD.

Because it's one of my fondest memories of living in Cambridge.

Because it's New England -- how much more Thanksgiving-y can you get?

2. Fred's (wife's) sweet potato pie. Fred sells'em at the Farmer's Market in Union Square. (Or he used to. It's been awhile.) I'm not sure it's even sweet potato, but it's the right flavor, and a great recipe (think BUTTER!) Their stuff is better'n most bakeries care to do.

3. Nesselrode pie. You find it, I'll eat it. (Didn't you go looking for this awhile back?)

It's something I loved as a child. Childhood, family, Thanksgiving, food. For me, this sort of brings it all together, even though it was not something we ever had at Thanksgiving.

3 pies for 3 phases of my life. Thanksgiving to bring past and present together with family, to share.

graffito at 9:10PM on 11/18/06

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