PIEALAMODE

Pie a la Mode

Pie à la Mode is pie served with a scoop of ice cream. Pie à la Mode was first invented and named by John Gieriet in Duluth, Minnesota in 1885. Over five decades later, in 1936, an erroneous claim was made that Pie a la Mode was first invented at the Cambridge Hotel in Cambridge, Washington County, New York in the 1890s. It was said that while visiting the hotel, Professor Charles Watson Townsend ordered a slice of apple pie with ice cream. When asked by another guest what he called the dish he replied it had no name. The guest, Mrs. Berry Hall, named it pie à la mode. Professor Townsend subsequently ordered it by that name every day during his stay. When ...

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