Four & Twenty Blackbirds pie company was founded in 2009 by sisters and pie makers Melissa Elsen and Emily Elsen.nNamed “Artisans of the Year” by Time Out New York in 2011, their pies have received critical praise and have been featured in a variety of international food media including the Food Network and the Cooking Channel, in the New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Good Morning America, Oprah and New York Magazine. Emily and Melissa Elsen's first book of pie recipes The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book: Uncommon Recipes from the Celebrated Brooklyn Pie Shop was released in October of 2013. It has been translated to the French by Marabout and Swedish by Natur & Kultur. In 2016, the sisters and their pie were featured at the Hankyu New York Fair in Osaka, Japan.