Chess Pie
January 3, 2008 
From the famed pie state of Hawaii comes this piece on trying a recipe for an intriguing pie called “Chess Pie“. It sounds delicious and easy to make, two key criteria for my pie baking attempts. The description regarding the name of the pie, though, is almost surely the best part of the story.
As for that name — here I crib from Diana Rattray, a Mississippi cook who writes about Southern cooking for About.com. She says the name “chess” could be an allusion to cheese; there’s no cheese in the pie but it is sort of cheesecake-like in texture. Or it could have been named after the pie chest in which it was stored.
Her best explanation, though: Husband asks wife what kind of pie it is and she says, “I don’t know. It’s ches’ pie.”
Hee!
