For more than 30 years, Aunt Ethel’s female-owned business has been refining a signature pot pie recipe in Brooklyn, first for local clients and later for home cooks across the United States. Founded by Sasha to reinvent comfort food, the company makes quick, fully cooked frozen pies with real ingredients and a buttery croissant puff pastry crust. A portion of its proceeds supports teachers across America.
The Mini PieBoxThe Mini PieBox makes palm-sized savory and sweet pies by hand, wrapping flavors inspired by travels and home cooking in a buttery, flaky crust. Founded around Karalyn and her partner Olisa’s love of cooking, the company makes each pie from scratch with a long-standing family crust recipe and, whenever possible, vegetables from its organic garden and locally sourced produce. Its monthly PieDrops offer rotating flavors that customers can bake from frozen for a convenient meal or snack.311813PITTSBURGH, PA
Mrs. T's PierogiesBorn in 1952 in the Twardzik family kitchen in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Mrs. T’s Pierogies makes frozen stuffed pasta pockets based on Mary “Mrs. T” Twardzik’s handmade potato-and-cheese recipe. Ted Twardzik started the company with five women making pierogies for local stores, and more than 65 years later his son Tom runs the family business. The company now describes itself as the country’s largest provider of pierogies, including its original classic and newer snack-sized varieties.311412SHENANDOAH, PA
Little Pie CompanyFounded by former actor Arnold Wilkerson in 1985, Little Pie Company bakes handmade American pies and other desserts fresh in Manhattan’s theater district. Its “theater of baking” puts bakers behind picture windows, where locally sourced ingredients become hand-pinched, small-batch pies such as its Sour Cream Apple Walnut and Mississippi Mud varieties. The company also ships its desserts fresh nationwide and supplies wholesale customers.NEW YORK, NY