Here's another recipe where the
origin of the name is murky. It is
southern, so some have thought that
it is a "chest" pie (to be kept in
a pie chest) and was renamed
because of a southerner's drawl.
Another idea is that "chess" it's
just a corruption of cheese, that
is, the English tradition of a
cheese-less cheesecake. In any
event, the provenance of the name
is less important than what you're
going to take out of the
oven-Christine Law's West Coast
interpretation of a southern
classic, made all the more
appealing when you bake your own
graham cracker for the crust.
