::That's what I read elsewhere about the Greek link as well: in Greece the meat pie was invented. However, in contrast to what the article published on Time.com asserts, the idea to stuff pies with apples is way older than the 18th century. Here you find a recipe for "Appeltaert" (Appeltaart in modern Dutch, or Apple Pie in English) published in a Dutch cookbook of 1514, recipe number 123: Notabel boecxken van cokeryen: Appeltaerten. More info about this cookbook (in English) can be read here: http://www.kookhistorie.nl/index.htm 
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