By Sharyn Jackson
From Star Tribune
The Most Important Ingredient of this Dessert is Time
MINNEAPOLIS — It took years for Rachel Swan to come around to her grandmother’s angel pie.
The dessert that flips lemon meringue pie on its head, literally, was Swan’s father’s favorite. But not hers. “I only have a memory of putting it in my mouth and spitting it out,” she said on a recent morning in her south Minneapolis shop, Pie & Mighty. It was a textural thing — the airy crunch of meringue isn’t for every kid. “But my dad loved it and it was like this special bond that he had with his mom.”
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