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How to make American tomato pie – recipe | Felicity Cloake’s How to make the perfect…
This Southern US classic is no delicate quiche or fancy tart; instead, it packs a proper punch
Tomato pie is a classic of the American south, a region blessed with the kind of long, hot summers that make a glut of ripe produce an annual certainty – North Carolina chef Vivian Howard describes the dish as “something people lay awake at night thinking of”. As soon as the season starts, she says, fans begin calling her Kinston restaurant to find out if it’s on the menu: “I joke with my husband that we’re going to close the restaurant and just sell tomato pies.” And make no mistake, this is no wobbly quiche or delicate tomato tart – granted, it may not (generally) come encased in pastry, but generously filled and robustly flavoured, it’s very much a pie in spirit.