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- News & Features, Feature, Dec 17, 2009
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The Real American Pie
Mince pie was once inextricable from our national identity. Blamed for bad health, murderous dreams, the downfall of Prohibition, and the decline of the white race, it nonetheless persisted as an American staple through the 1940s. So what happened?
- by Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Feature, apple pie, mince pie, as American as apple pie, Marion Howland, Common Sense in the Household, Old Victory Distillery, James Whitcomb Riley, Dry Law, Horace Fletcher, digestion-ash, Dr. Fenton B. Turck, Dr. Andre Tridon, Chicago Defender, Albert Allen, George Humphreys, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, suet, beef fat, Villager Foods, apple cider, National Society for the Promotion of Health, The Pickwick Papers, temperance movement, John Mason Tyler, Reverend Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Pure Food and Drug laws, 19th Amendment, Slideshow
