Homemade Taste

This is the homemade pumpkin pie. It was a present from a young American whom I teach Japanese language at home once a week. He is from Chicago and currently a teacher of English at two public junior high schools in our city. It was my second time that I tasted homemade pumpkin pie. I liked it, but it tasted a little different from the one which an American lady from Sacrament made last year. I can imagine that homemade taste is different from family to family, though.