Key Lime Pie Bakery / Key West, Florida
Anytime I'm in Key West, a visit to the Key Lime Pie Bakery is a must. ( I'll confess, sometimes even multiple visits in the same day. ) The Key Lime Pie Bakery is a charming little bakery shop, located on Greene Street just a short walk from Mallory Square and Sunset Pier. It's known for being the "original," and they take great pride in this statement --- as you can see from the sign at the entrance declaring this bakery the birthplace of Key Lime Pie in 1856. So, what exactly is the history of this famous tropical pie? According to local legend, the main ingredient was brought to the Florida Keys by explorer Christopher Columbus. On his second voyage to the Americas in 1493, he was said to have planted Key lime trees in Haiti. In the 1800s, when immigrants from Haiti and the Bahamas came to the islands of Florida, they brought their beloved Key limes and planted their own trees. Fast forward to 1856, when a woman by the name of Gail Borden invented sweetene
