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I think it's really trying to raise a profile of pies and I think if you look back a few years ago

I was making the analogy with sausages and I think sausages had got to have been a very cheap

food and I think pies were a very cheap food and I think this kind of

competition really raises a profile and is really helping drive a renaissance in pies

it's becoming a gourmet dish again and going back to having fantastic ingredients rather than it being a cheap staple

I think we're all falling back in love with highs again. That was

Mark Beeston of Dunclies Pies.

This year's Supreme Champion of the British Pie Awards held last month at Melton Mobre.

For a while there, it looked like the British pie was drifting,

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