I made this pie based on a recipe from the Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts. Moosewood is a famous vegetarian restaurant in Ithaca, New York; not being a veggie, this is the only one of their cookbooks I have. As I noted in Pumpkin Pie Fest part II: the pies, this pie had a number of issues related to the size and shape of the pie plate and the way in which it was cooked; tasters were not impressed, rating it too sweet, too spicy (it had half a tablespoon of ginger!), and overall in ninth place out of the ten pies for which more than one evaluation was received. A number told me that they wanted to like this pie, but were turned off by its flaws, particularly the overspiced pumpkin custard.