Sir, – When is a pie not a pie? When it is a bowl of stew with a disk of pastry on top. I enjoy the moist pastry of a pie with the gravy soaking into it and the hot crumbly crust on top. Placing a cold disk of dry pastry on top of a bowl of stew no more makes it a pie than me walking into the kitchen and putting on the chef’s hat would make me a chef. – Yours, etc,
DAVID DOYLE,
Goatstown,
Dublin 14.