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Cape Girardeau artist and retired Southeast Missouri State University Museum director James Parker saw the king ready to feast on his blackbird pie almost daily when he attended Lorimier School, now ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - ‘Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.” For owner and founder of Twenty-Four Blackbirds Chocolates, this nursery rhythm ...

Happy Thanksgiving week. Why not bake a pie? Four & Twenty Blackbirds (439 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-499-2917) founders Emma and Melissa Elsen didn’t mean to open a pie shop, or at least not at first.

BEEBE, Ark. (AP) — New Year's revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds. The ...