NISSWA - Don't shut your pie hole - Mary Etta Durham is back in the pie business. It's a craft she knows well. The famed pie maker from Jenkins has been producing pies at a prodigious...

- Mary Etta Durham grew up in Jenkins with 11 brothers and sisters, learning her cooking skills early. Photos - At 15, she was working in her first...

...Early Childhood Coalition to support its goal of improved kindergarten readiness through literacy and awareness. Mary Etta Durham will be preparing the spaghetti and meat sauce, coleslaw, garlic bread and brownies. Cost is $5 for adults and...

Mary Etta Durham, Pequot Lakes head cook for almost 30 years, is retiring from the school next week to sweeten the profits on her lucrative pie-making business. Read her story in Monday's Dispatch.

PEQUOT LAKES -- As Pequot Lakes School's longtime "lunch lady," Mary Etta Durham has become a fixture at the Pequot Lakes School, serving up hot meals at the school for almost 30 years. Photos But Pequot Lakes...

...her pies at the restaurant and sold about 150-200 pies on holidays. Swenson, 71, began baking pies alongside Mary Etta Durham at the former Uptown Bakery in Pequot Lakes about 10 years ago. Durham is best known for her pies, Mary Etta's...

...Next Back | Next Mary Etta's Pies, baked in Nisswa, have a following of their own in the lakes area. Namesake Mary Etta Durham, who grew up in Jenkins, began making pies as a side business about 1993. Durham is still involved in making the...