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The classic northern pie gets the Felicity Cloake treatment

Meat and potato pie, meat and 'tatie pie (as Simon Hopkinson calls it, rather than tattie"), or simply meat pie, is a straightforward name for a straightforward dish. There are no doubt hundreds of different varieties from around the pie-eating world, but here I'm interested in the oh-so-delicious looking - and smelling!" version Hopkinson recalls from childhood visits to Bury Market with his mother. Indeed, the Salford-born poet John Cooper Clarke has said they're the thing he misses most about the north: You can't get them south of Birmingham. There's a warning for any readers who might be thinking of going south. Take your own meat and potato pies." Alternatively, dust off your rolling pin and get baking.