Nobody knows how to make pies but an American housewife.
And lucky that she does, for men can not thrive in America without pie.

I do not mean the standardized, tasteless things made in great pie factories.

I refer to the personally conducted pies that women used to make.

The pioneer wives of America learned to make a pie out of every fruit that grows, including lemons, and from many vegetables, including squash and sweet potatoes, as well as from vinegar and milk and eggs and flour.

Fed on these good pies the pioneers--is there any significance in the first syllable of the word--hewed down the woods and laid the continent under the plow.