Baking a Chocolate Meringue Pie - No. 25

Demystifying one of life’s most beautifully unpretentious desserts

My mother had the daily pies memorized at the old Green Hills pharmacy in Nashville.

A chalkboard sign outside announced the pie of the day, but she already knew chocolate was baked on Friday. It was her favorite.

The local drugstore was where you went to get prescriptions filled or just have a quick grilled cheese sandwich and slice of pie. The cooks th…