NUTTY:  Pecan bits pack Your Mama's Good Food's pecan pie top to bottom

  • Kat Robinson
  • NUTTY: Pecan bits pack Your Mama’s Good Food’s pecan pie top to bottom

Ah, the pecan pie. Or Karo-nut pie. Or whatever you’d like to call it. We as Southerners (no matter what Food & Wine Magazine says about putting us in the Midwest) teeth on pecan pie. The depths of a good pecan suspension, the flavors of crust versus nuts are things that tenuate us towards who we are and what we will become. I do believe there’s a good part of pecan in most Arkansawyers (those with allergies set aside, of course).

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To find a decent one is not hard — there’s a pretty standard recipe that most folks follow. To find a good one isn’t too challenging. To find a spectacular, unadulterated pie, though? That’s a rare thing.

So to find one in the most mundane of lunchtime spots in the middle of downtown Little Rock is heartening.

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I stopped into Your Mama’s Good Food for lunch recently, catching the tail-end of the lunch rush. Of course, I wasn’t going to just check out the pie that had been recommended to me. I needed some vittles as well.

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