7 Pies to Sweeten Your Holidays

Written by Diana McMillen. Photographs by Doug Smith and Graham Brown

Every year, pies and people come together at a Kansas City inn just off Country Club Plaza. It's a delicious start to the holiday season.

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Pie time

Each year, the weekend before Thanksgiving, a pie-making frenzy begins at Southmoreland on the Plaza, a historic 13-room inn northeast of Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. Owners Mark Reichle and Nancy Miller Reichle, along with family members, start to prepare several dozen pies that will be served later in the week during Pie Fest at the inn.

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