num_pages: 336
description: A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyondFrom the pumpkin pie gracing the Thanksgiving table to the apple pie at the Fourth of July picnic nearly every American shares a certain nostalgia for a simple circle of crust and filling. But Americas history with pie has not always been so sweet. After all it was a slice of cherry pie at the Woolworths lunch counter on a cool February afternoon that helped to spark the Greensboro sit-ins and ignited a wave of anti-segregation protests across the South during the civil rights movement. Molasses pie meanwhile captures the legacies of racial trauma and oppression passed down from America's history of slavery and Jell-O pie exemplifies the pressures and contradictions of gender roles in an evolving modern society. We all know the warm comfort of the so-called All-American apple pie . . . but just how did pie become the symbol of a nation?In Sweet Land of A History of America in 11 Pies  food writer Rossi Anastopoulo cracks open our relationship to pie with wit and good humor. For centuries pie has been a malleable icon co-opted for new social and political purposes. Here Anastopoulo traces the pies woven into our history following the evolution of our country across centuries of innovation and change. With corresponding recipes for each chapter and sidebars of quirky facts throughout Sweet Land of Liberty is an entertaining informative and utterly charming food history for bakers dessert lovers and history aficionados alike. Ultimately the story of pie is the story of America itself and its time to dig in.
language: English
title: Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies
publisher: Harry N. Abrams