The World Needs More Pie. More Than a Philosophy.
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. In her PIE BAKING PARTIES she teaches groups how to make pie. In her BLOG she writes stories about living the pie-life. Her book, “Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie” the story of how pie helped her heal from the death of her 43-year-old husband, will be published April 2012 by Harlequin Non-Fiction. And she is developing a TV SERIES about pie. View a promo tape for the PIE-LOT here. Howard lives in Eldon, Iowa, where she is the proud (and privileged) resident of the famous AMERICAN GOTHIC HOUSE where she sells pie to tourists from her PITCHFORK PIE STAND and teaches pie making classes.
Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie
Beth’s book, MAKING PIECE, is now available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, IndieBound and other booksellers .
Healing the world, one pie at a time.
While 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 of the dish, brought pie to America, where recipes evolved and multiplied as quickly as 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.
Pie T-Shirts
Price includes shipping and handling. Shirt reads: “The World Needs More Pie, Give a Piece a Chance”
