The World Needs More Pie | Give a Piece a Chance. Pie books, Pie Classes, Blog

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The World Needs More Pie Give a Piece a Chance. Pie books, Pie Classes, BlogThe paperback of Howard s acclaimed memoir, Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Pie is now out. This second edition has a new epilogue, a lower price of $14.00, and the messy pie cover Howard had always envisioned. Order it now from Amazon, Indiebound, your local bookstore, or ask for it at your local library.“One unique, crazy-quilt, truly American tale of reinvention.” Publishers WeeklyWhile we Americans like to think we invented pie, it did not originate with the pilgrims. Though we agree, it was an inspired notion to bake pie as a peace offering and create a holiday centered around it! We love Thanksgiving. Pie, however, has been around since medieval times with its history first documented in Egypt, and the first pie recipe recorded in Greece. Pie originated as a sort of Tupperware of its time, the dough an inedible wrapper to preserve and transport meat. Mayflower passengers, practical travelers who recognized the hardiness (and heartiness) of the dish, brought pie to America, where recipes evolved and multiplied as quickly as the population of the new nation. Today s pie crust is flaky, buttery and melts in your mouth, with myriad fillings berries, nuts, veggies, eggs, just about anything that can fit in a pie plate. Pie is accessible, affordable, all-encompassing. Pie is meant for sharing. Pie connects people. Pie knows no cultural or political boundaries. Pie makes people happy. And happy people make the world a better place. That s why the world needs more pie.Here s my humble film about my World Piece journey. It s like homemade pie — it s not perfect but it s made with love.In 2001, at the height of the dot com boom, Beth Howard quit a lucrative web producing job to bake pies at a gourmet deli in Malibu, California. While she enjoyed her newfound status as pie baker to the stars she couldn t pay her rent on her baker s salary. Still, she recognized how happy pie made people watching Robert Downey Jr. devour her apple pie was proof enough! and Howard knew there was no turning back. She began blogging about how pie can make the world a better place, which led to writing books about it. Her first book, Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie is the story of how pie helped her heal from the death of her 43-year-old husband. Her cookbook, Ms. American Pie, is filled with pie recipes and stories about how she believes pie can comfort, build community, and even seduce. She s given a TEDx talk on pie. Howard was the last resident to live in the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, where from 2010 to 2014, she ran thePitchfork Pie Stand. In 2015, she circled the globe on her World Piece mission, making pie to promote cultural tolerance. Howard s story has been featured on CBS This Morning, NPR, CNN, and many other media outlets. She divides her time between a farm in Southeast Iowa (aka: Camp Dough) and Tucson, Arizona (aka: Camp Dough South). She continues to blog and write books while plotting her next pie adventure.Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie, is about Beth s journey through grief after losingher husband and how it led her to a new life in the American Gothic House. It was published by Harlequin Nonfiction in 2012 and received an unprecedented amount of publicity including CBS This Morning, the front page of the LA Times, a 4-page feature in Real Simple, the cover of Country Woman, and multiple interviews on NPR. One of Beth s proudest moments was landing at #1 on a bestseller list, beating out not one but two of David Sedaris titles. Read an excerpt here.Ms. American Pie: Buttery Good Pie Recipes and Bold Tales from the American Gothic House, with 80 recipes, color photos, and Beth s funny, heartfelt essays,was released by Race Point Publishing on April 2014.It went intoits second printing after just 2 weeks and reached #1 on several bestseller lists.And stay tuned for yet another one Beth is working on amemoir about her four years livingin the American Gothic House (with snakes, stalkers, and Gladys Kravitz for a neighbor, all while running the Pitchfork Pie Stand.) She tells the story of what it was really like living behind the lace curtain of the famous Gothic window. To sum it up:A pie baker, her two terriersand her RV move into a rural Iowa tourist attraction and all hell breaks loose.WORLD PIECE: Making piearound the world to promote cultural tolerance, Summer2015After many years of dreaming, this journey becamea reality the summer of 2015. Readmoreabout my round-the-world trip here. Better yet, watch the film!Auckland, New ZealandSydney, AustraliaBangkok, ThailandMumbai, IndiaBeirut, LebanonAthens, GreeceGermany, Switzerland, HungaryFrom Dec. 18 to 21, 2012, our team of volunteer pie makers pie servers from New Jersey, New York, Georgia, Illinois and Iowa, handed out 240 pies in Newtown, Connecticut, giving slices and whole pies to funeral receptions, grieving families and town residents after the tragic shooting. We taught pie making to students at the high school and to kids of Sandy Hook elementary school, all supported by your generous donations for RV gas and pie ingredients. To help with the ongoing grieving process, Beth returned to Newtown March 4 to 9, 2013, to teach more pie classes to the community and give a talk at the C.H. Booth Library. Articles about our experiences can be found on the NEWS page on this site. Follow our continuing compassion-filled journey on Facebook. For ongoing support to Newtown grief counseling, please donate directly to the Newtown Parent Connection.This is just one of the many mouth-watering recipes in my cookbook, Ms. American Pie. But not only is it GOOD, it s as EASY to make as you know what.FILLING2 large lemons (Meyer lemons if you can find them, but works with any kind)2 cups sugar1/4 teaspoon salt4 eggs (beaten)3 tablespoons flourWash and dry whole lemons. Using a mandoline (serrated knife works too), slice lemons paper thin into a large bowl. (Remove seeds.) Stir in sugar, cover, and set aside at room temperature overnight.Mix lemon-sugar mixture with beaten eggs, salt and flour. Pour in pie shell. Cover with top crust, brush with beaten egg, poke with vent holes.Bake at 425°F. for 20 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 375°F. and bake for 25 to 30 minutes more.BASIC PIE CRUST2-1/2 cups flour1/2 cup butter1/2 cup CriscoDash of saltIce water (fill one cup but use only enough to moisten dough)In a deep bowl, work the butter and shortening into the flour with your hands until you see marble-sized lumps form. Add ice water a little at a time, sort of “fluffing” the flour. When the dough feels moistened enough do a “squeeze test” and when it holds together you’re done. Do not overwork the dough! It takes very little time and you’ll be tempted to keep touching it, but don’t! Now divide the dough in two, form each half into a disk shape and roll flat and thin to fit your pie dish. Sprinkle flour under and on top of your dough to keep it from sticking to your rolling surface. Trim excess dough to about 1 inch from the dish edge with a scissors, leaving enough dough to make crimped, fluted edge.

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