Making Pies in Iowa's "American Gothic" House
From the porch of an iconic American home, Beth Howard is out to cheer up the world, one pie at a time.
Rediscovered roots
Beth lives and makes apple pies ("I like apple because it's a classic," she says) in the American Gothic house, that unmistakable white-frame home with the arched window in Grant Wood's 1930 painting of dour country folk. Perhaps no image but the Mona Lisa is more famous, and to Beth, the house it shows plays a critical role in a story of rediscovered roots, pies and the road back from a broken heart.
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