Lemon-Buttermilk Chess Pie

The diner in question was in Alabama, or Kentucky, or Arkansas (depending on who’s telling the story), but wherever the locale, this classic Southern pie supposedly got its name from a waitress who, when asked by a customer about the rich pie, responded, “Oh, honey, it’s jes’ pie.” Another anecdote traces chess pie back to an eighteenth-century English “cheese pie,” and still another links it with a chest in a Southern kitchen where confections were once stored. Whatever the origins of the