You'll also see pies pop up in the spring, with coconut, rhubarb, and other fanciful flavors adding zing to Easter lunches and Mother's Day brunches. But pie and November are a tight twosome ...

Michel Martin talks with Andrea Smetona, author of the recipe book Easy as Pie Pops, about the bite-sized treats on a stick. For the Thanksgiving table, there's even a sweet potato pie pop.

The second I heard there was a pie pop-up shop in town, I had to be there. JUDY WALKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEThe Nola Pie Guy's handmade sign My friend Amanda Phillips, a champion baker who is ...