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Pecan pie is a sweet custard pie. It is made mainly from corn syrup and pecan nuts. It is a tremendously favorite dessert prepared and dished during important US holidays like Thanks giving, Christmas. It has a sweet and a very nutty flavor with a custard like texture. Though it developed in the southern part of the USA but since early 20th century its popularity has grown immensely and has grown the Pan American dessert. What causes the pecan pie a truly American dessert? well reply is not too far, the term pecan devived and initiated from the American Indian word 'Pecan' which signifies “nut to be cracked with rock”. Some former French colonists in New Orleans got acquainted to pecan nuts by the native-born Indians, it got their creative juices flow and pecan pie was the delightful final result. Small communities of Quinipissa and Tangipahoa Indians lived at that time in present day New Orleans. The first French colonist to this place was sieur de La Salle,who came here in 1682.His visit was shortly accompanied up by different French explorer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne in 1699. Another prominent French settler sieur de Bienville,who was governor of Louisiana, visited New Orleans and liked it so much that he made a small town in 1718.He christened this young settlement Nouvelle Orleans. Thus groundwork was laid for this fabulous dish to be whipped up in a French settlers kitchen for the very first time. And who known at that time this union of European Pie with the native American constituent would bring about such a revolution in American palette in the 20th century. Pecans have a long long story in the area. millions of pecan plants are witnessed on the banks of leading Rivers, streams and irrigation canals in Texas and north of Mexico. Even fossil remains of pecan plants were also obtained there. So supported on this grounds we can conclude that these pecan trees existed long before native-born Indians moved here and that these plants were looking for their fruits to be observed by some body who could creatively use them and develop some thing superbly fabulous which is befitting to their lone taste and feeling. After all this special taste was produced by them after standing patiently for many a thousand years. Not only that these pecan plants played a significant use in gifting a Pan American character to the individuals coming from contrasting countries ,regions ,ethnicities and religious belief. In the latest times first recipe of pecan pie come out some where between 1925 and 1940.Some famed cook books are dead sure of first recipe being published in year 1940.Today pecan pie has grabbed the imagination of entire American nation. It has been indorsed by all the communities who came to live here from all the parts of the world. Now many variants have appeared in pecan pie like chocolate pecan pie ,chocolate chips pecan pie,sweet potato pecan pie.But nothing could beat the traditional New Orleans pecan pie.