VIDEO: Ivan Day does a little historic pie com- parison and shows us a real Christmas pie.


A Christmas pie fit for the Cumberland gentry


British foods. But pies a couple of hundred years ago were a far cry from the soggy supermarket specimens of today. We are truly thrilled that Cumbria’s, and indeed the UK’s, most prominent food historian,


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here is no doubt that the pie is one of the most traditional of


Ivan Day, is joining the ranks of Artisan-food’s contributors. Ivan’s mission in life is to cure the British of what he calls our culinary amnesia – believe it or not, this country’s cuisine was one of the best in Europe for hundreds of years. Here, he explains what Christmas pies were like in these parts in the early 1800s.


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