Southern Living: The South's Best Pies

In 2009, I participated in Project M, a workshop for designers wishing to ignite positive social change. We created a community event called Free Pie, which formed the basis for our follow-on project, PieLab. PieLab has been nominated for a James Beard award in restaurant design, named one of the top 10 pie places in the U.S., and continues to serve up social change with a delicious slice of pie.

~Adam Saynuk

Freshly baked pies are signaling something sweet happening in this small town in Alabama’s soil-rich Black Belt region where jobs are drying up and storefronts shutting down. A group of young graphic designers set up the bakery, culinary school, and design studio on Main Street in a thrift shop storage site in the summer of 2009.

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