Art OF THE PIE

 
 
 







“How a Pie Fight Satirizes Whig-Tory Conflict...” A literary Pie-in-the Face in 1709. Carole Sargent  (Source: Carole Sargent)

“We must have pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of pie.” David Mamet

“I had a vision that a man came unto us on a flaming pie, and he said, ‘You are Beatles with an A.’ And so we were.” John Lennon, 1961 (Source: Wikipedia)

"No soil upon earth is so dear to our eyes, As the soil we first stirred in making mud pies". Oliver Wendell Holmes (Source: Smith College Monthly, 1905)


The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. (Source: Ask Me: Help Desk)


“On the shoals of roast beef and apple pie, all socialistic utopias founder.” (Source: “The European Dream”, Jeremy Rifkin, 2004)


“If I were to create a coat of arms for our country, a pie would be its heraldic symbol.” ---attributed to the figment known as Betty Crocker (Source: NPR, Talk of the Nation, “Iconic American Food”, John T Edge, July, 4, 2005)


“I love you as New Englanders love pie!” (Source: Sonnets to a Red Haired Lady, Don Marquis, 1952)


”It’s apple pies that make the menfolks’ mouths water. Pies made from apples like these.” (The Queen in Snow White)


“And the great American dessert is...pie.” (Source: “Etiquette”, Emily Post, 1937 ed)


“The Battle of the Century” (MGM, 1927) featured the biggest pie fight in movie history using 3,000 cream pies from the Los Angeles Pie Company. (Source: “Pie: A Global History”, Janet Clarkson, 2009)


“If you can hold your hand in the heated oven while you can count twenty, the oven has just the proper temperature...” (Source: “White House Cookbook”, 1898)


Ragan’s Nomenclature of the Apple lists over 17,000 different apple names.


The Brogdale Horticultural Trust in Kent, England has over 2,400 varieties of apples in it’s National Fruit Collection.


“According to tradition, Yalemen were served apple pie for supper every evening for 100 years.” (Source: “The Food Book”, James Trager, 1970)


Thoreau’s favorite apple? “--sour enough to set a squirrel’s teeth on edge and make a jay scream.” (Wild Apples: Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, Nov 1862)


“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.“ (Source: Jane Austen: Letter to Cassandra, October 17, 1815)


“Early mention of a fruit pie in print, is from Robert Green’s Arcadia (1590). “Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.” (Numerous Online Sources)


“If you wish to make an Apple Pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” (Source: Carl Sagan, Cosmos)


Sumner, WA is the (self-proclaimed) Rhubarb Pie Capital.


“We resort, frankly to pies, which is a comedy staple that’s gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.” (Johnny Carson)


“Nobody needs drug-store ice cream; pie is good enough for anybody.”  (Source: Main Street, Upton Sinclair, 1920)



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National Pie Days


Jan 23

  1. National Pie Day

  2. Rhubarb Pie Day

Feb 22

  1. Cherry Pie Day

Mar 2

  1. Banana Cream Pie Day

Mar 14

  1. Pi Day

Apr 28

  1. Blueberry Pie Day

May 8

  1. Coconut Cream Pie Day

May 13

  1. Apple Pie Day

Jun 9

  1. Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day

Jul 12

  1. Pecan Pie Day

Aug 1

  1. Raspberry Cream Pie Day

Aug 15

  1. Lemon Meringue Pie Day

Aug 18

  1. Ice Cream Pie Day

Aug 20

  1. Chocolate Pecan Pie Day

Aug 24 & Sept 16

  1. Peach Pie Day

Sept 28

  1. Strawberry Cream Pie Day

Oct 12

  1. Pumpkin Pie Day

Oct 23

  1. Boston Cream Pie Day

Nov 27

  1. Bavarian Cream Pie Day

Dec 1

  1. National Pie Day

Dec 25

  1. Pumpkin Pie Day