CULTURETECHLENSChocolate chess pie
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Combined Graph record U-01071 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0671. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Chess pie is a uniquely Southern pie of butter, sugar, and eggs (Jean Anderson in Gourmet, drawing on Damon Lee Fowler and Karen Hess); chocolate chess pie is named in the same piece among the established chess pie variants. Stored key ingredients (chocolate, chess pie base) established; the James Beard Foundation likewise documents chess pie's custardy, cornmeal-thickened filling.
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Chess pie is a uniquely Southern pie of butter, sugar, and eggs (Jean Anderson in Gourmet, drawing on Damon Lee Fowler and Karen Hess); chocolate chess pie is named in the same piece among the established chess pie variants. Stored key ingredients (chocolate, chess pie base) established; the James Beard Foundation likewise documents chess pie's custardy, cornmeal-thickened filling.
The record
- Work type: dish
- Category: desserts
Sources
- http://www.gourmet.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/food/gourmetlive/2012/031412/the-souths-storied-chess-pie.html (verification source · master store)
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Chess pie is a uniquely Southern pie of butter, sugar, and eggs (Jean Anderson in Gourmet, drawing on Damon Lee Fowler and Karen Hess); chocolate chess pie is named in the same piece among the established chess pie variants. Stored key ingredients (chocolate, chess pie base) established; the James Beard Foundation likewise documents chess pie's custardy, cornmeal-thickened filling.
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