Meat Pies!

The new book, a recipe for chorizo pie, an unlikely cocktail, books, movies, and a special tribute to Emma Kate Smith...

In the fall of 1983, I traveled to England to begin my junior year abroad at the University of Sussex. One of my first memories shortly after arriving in Brighton, is of a deli case filled with meat pies and something called pasties.

Meat pies! The last meat pie I’d eaten had been in the early 70s—the Swanson’s chicken pot pies my parents made for me on …