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Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM
That's right: Today is a whole day set aside to celebrate pie. Is there a more magical day than that? I think not.
To celebrate National Pie Day, I think you should read Bethany Jean Clement's marvelous review of West Seattle's Shoofly Pie Company:
Out at Shoofly Pie Co. last Saturday afternoon, an older lady with a tweed-and-leather hat ordered a slice of lemon meringue ($3.75), talking with someone else in line about her mother, who had 14 kids. "Did she make pies?" the someone else inquired. "She made everything—babies, pies." Laughter. (Later, across the room, eating her pie, in answer to a raising of the eyebrows, the older lady smiled and nodded once, emphatically.) Also in line: Two women with blond highlights and one baby, the baby being admired by a man in jogging tights who looked like a cross between Slade Gorton and Larry Craig. ("Let's give the pumpkin [$3.75 slice, $21 whole] a whirl!" he said.) Later: interracial gay couple, repeat customers, "I like cherry [$3.50/$20]. He's hard to please." They looked in the glass case, jammed gloriously full of pies. The hard-to-please one, the cherry-liker guessed, might be pleased by the chocolate tart ($4/$22).
If you are currently in the throes a pie-free diet, as I am, you can savor Ms. Clement's review as though it were a giant, buttery hunk of apple pie. Satisfying! Due to its greatness, this review was memorialized for all eternity in the Best American Food Writing 2008 compilation from Da Capo Books, which you can find at just about every independent bookstore in town. Congratulations to Ms. Clement, yay for Shoofly Pie Company, and pie for all! Except me.
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Thank you for posting this!
I had a piece of (cherry) pie this morning at Grateful Bread bakery (which makes very tasty pie). It was yummy.
I hope everyone takes a few moments today to reflect on the sacrifices of those who made our pies, the selflessness of the pies themselves, and the ongoing inequalities of butter and shortening in pie crusts.
I had a piece of (cherry) pie this morning at Grateful Bread bakery (which makes very tasty pie). It was yummy.
I hope everyone takes a few moments today to reflect on the sacrifices of those who made our pies, the selflessness of the pies themselves, and the ongoing inequalities of butter and shortening in pie crusts.
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Paul Constant give January 23 piece of Rize pie, January 23 eat Rize pie, freak out, holiday out, JANUARY 23 BECOME NATIONAL PIE DAY!
NATIONAL PIE DAY WILL SMASH ALL OTHER PUNY NATIONAL CONSUMPTION-MANDATING HOLIDAYS!
HAPPY NATIONAL PIE DAY, MOTHERFUCKERS!
FROM THE INCREDIBLE SULK!
And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
NATIONAL PIE DAY WILL SMASH ALL OTHER PUNY NATIONAL CONSUMPTION-MANDATING HOLIDAYS!
HAPPY NATIONAL PIE DAY, MOTHERFUCKERS!
FROM THE INCREDIBLE SULK!
And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
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OMG! Its like the day was designed specifically to ruin both mine and Paul Contant's diet!!! God damnit, i should make a lemon icebox pie that my grandmother would be rolling over in her day bed (its her nap time in texas) if she knew that I obtained it over her shoulder.
BEST DAY EVER, diet be damned ive got a family legacy to continue against family's wishes!
BEST DAY EVER, diet be damned ive got a family legacy to continue against family's wishes!
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We are holding a house show in honor of pie day. We already have 4 pies, to dozen pot pies are in the making. Pie heartlets are on the way. Plus rumors of an obama pie, boston cream and strawberry rhubarb are on the way. Oh yeah, and bands from seattle/oly. flier link
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Though it doesn't say *why* it's in January vs. March, the National Pie Council does indeed say that Jan. 23 is the day: http://www.piecouncil.org/pie_events/nat…
Of course, I'll happily eat pie on both days.
Of course, I'll happily eat pie on both days.
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