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    PieCast: A Pie to Cure Your Hangover, Revisiting Pie Town

    The PieCast is Good Food's yearly bonus podcast all about pie. On this episode we hear about an Australian hangover cure that combines meat pies, pea soup, vinegar and "sauce." Plus, a photographer gives us a glimpse of Pie Town, New Mexico and a historian analyzes the expression, "as American as apple pie."

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    By Evan Kleiman • Sep 9, 2015 • 28m Listen

    Photo: Arthur Drooker

    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:18

      Pie: A Culinary History

      Libby O'Connell is the chief historian for the History Channel. In her new book, The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites , she examines the history of pie.

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      8 min
    2. 8:04

      Prevent a Hangover with the Aussie Pie Floater

      Nick Bishop is the owner of Aussie Pie Kitchen in Santa Monica where he serves an updated version of Australia's classic meat pies. He describes the tradition of Aussie meat pies and shares Adelaide's very own hangover remedy: the pie floater.

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      9 min
    3. 17:23

      A Visit to Pie Town, New Mexico

      If you're Pie Obsessed, you've heard of Pie Town, a hard-to-find community off highway 60 in Western New Mexico. This tiny town has two cafes with Pie in their names: the Pie-O-Neer Cafe and Good Pie Cafe .

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      11 min
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Gillian Ferguson

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

      CultureFood & Drink

    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:188 min

      Pie: A Culinary History

    2. 8:049 min

      Prevent a Hangover with the Aussie Pie Floater

    3. 17:2311 min

      A Visit to Pie Town, New Mexico

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