Florida’s official state pie, no visit to Miami is complete without a taste of a delicious Key Lime Pie. Keeping in with America’s capitalist tradition, the origins of the Key Lime Pie can in large be traced back to advertising. Borden, a condensed milk producer, produced the “Magic lemon Cream Pie” in 1931, from which the floridian desert is widely believed to be derived from. The recipe required condensed milk of course, along with egg yolks, lemon juice and rind and a meringue topping, all things that makeup current Key Lime Pie recipes. The fresh local Key limes make this dish a uniquely floridian treat, being more tart and aromatic than the typical Persian limes, although they have not been grown in the United State since the 1926 Miami hurricane, they are mainly imported from South and Central America.
