Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist ... Cream Pie Coconut Caramel Tart Coffee and Maple Chess Pie Pomegranate Cardamom Apple Pie ...

1928 The New York Times described first lady Lou Hoover’s home making skills as as American as apple pie and corn pone. At some point that just stuck and all manner of things have been compared ...

The phrase "American as apple pie" came to fruition for a reason ... “Pie really is an American evil,” Kate Masterson wrote in the New York Times in 1902. It is an “unmoral food,” she ...