Culture and Cuisine

Apple Pie

It's one of the American culture icons, such as baseball, and the American flag. It's very common to see an apple pie in cartoons, movies, tv series. When you see one of the TV programs and someone is baking a pie; it's always an apple pie!!! Apple pie is a typically American dessert but only in the most modern recipes require an ounce or two of sugar.One of the sources claims that in the past, sugar was expensive (almost US$ 100 per kg); honey was cheper than refined sugar but it was also absent in the recipe. Well, apple pie is not only in the Americans recipes but it is also day by day in the language. You can say "as American as Apple Pie" (some sources claim that it has been eaten since long before the discovery of America), it is a common saying in the USA, meaning "typically American".