Meat pie (Australia and New Zealand) Tasmania, the main manufacturer of pies is National Pies. National Pies make typical beef mince pies, as well as "Cottage Pies", which are topped with mashed potato. National Pies' mince pies are rectangular in shape, as opposed to most other brands, which are round. Australian Meat Pies were introduced into the United States in 1994 by Mark Allen, of Boort, Victoria, when he and his wife, Wendy, began operation of Pacific Products, Inc. in Marietta, Georgia. Pacific Products was a wholesale only business, selling their pies to chain retailers throughout the United States. Although Pacific Products is no longer in
Landscape with a Cottage and Trees the hand of Nicolaes Berchem. The painting is catalogue number 569 in Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonne of Ruisdael. Landscape with a Cottage and Trees Landscape with a Cottage and Trees (1646) is an oil on panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Kunsthalle in Hamburg. The painting shows a landscape near the dunes, with a modest cottage and a derelict shed, amidst dense vegetation. The people do not take centre stage; nature does. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "806. LANDSCAPE WITH A