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The American Pie Council (APC) is an organization committed to "preserving America's pie heritage and promoting America's love affair with pies".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who We Are )〕 As America's only purely pie-focused national organization, the APC combines aspects of a hobby club, professional association, trade group, and pro-pie interest group. ==Activities== The Council offers both personal and commercial memberships which allow individual participants to have discussions and swap recipes with fellow pie lovers, while providing commercial members with business networking opportunities and promotional support.〔 The APC has run the APC National Pie Championships since 1995.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Announcing the 2014 APC National Pie Championships® )〕 The event is usually held in Celebration, Florida. The competition is open to amateur, professional, and commercial bakers. The categories at the 2014 competition are:〔 *Apple *Blueberry *Chocolate *Citrus *Cream *Cream Cheese *Comstock/Wilderness (Apple, Cherry, Blueberry, Strawberry, Combination 2+ flavors) *Fruit/Berry *Innovation *Key Lime *Nut *Paramount Peach *Peanut Butter *Pumpkin *Special Dietary (gluten free, no sugar added) *Open Competition The APC also sponsors or promotes other pie-centric events throughout the year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Happenings in the Pie World 2014 )〕 The APC council also conducts surveys of pie consumption. APC research has shown that Apple is Americans' favorite pie, that 59% of Americans consider pie an appropriate late-night snack, and that 20% of Americans have eaten an entire pie.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pie Fun Facts )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Pie Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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