Month: February 2010
Our New Pie Website is Live!
Creating our new website– www.theworldneedsmorepie.com –was almost as much fun as filming the TV pie-lot. We needed a home to promote all the pie-related projects we’ve been cooking up — pie parties, pie memoir, pie TV series, homemade pies for sale, and pie things we haven’t even thought of yet. For the pie blog you … Read more
Pie and Pancakes in Seattle
I’m in Seattle at the Seattle Pie Company, a new pie shop in the Magnolia neighborhood run by a darling young blond woman with the world’s most welcoming smile. It’s a sweet little spot with a big display of crumble-topping pies filling the space – four giant shelves packed with fruity, homemade-looking, county fair-comfort food … Read more
Goodbye, Bob
Death is part of life. I continue to be reminded of this almost daily. Yesterday, on the day that marked six months of Marcus’ passing, I learned that Bob Webb, father of my friend Mimi, died. He passed away a few weeks ago, I was told by Betty, my Texas landlord who just lost her … Read more
Pie TV Shoot Stats
As promised, we added up the numbers for our pie TV shoot. Here’s the final tally.RV Road TripNumber of miles driven in the RV (RT Portland-Los Angeles, and including my Christmas trip to Arizona): 4,521Number of miles I drove RV prior to this trip: 0Number of parking or speeding tickets: 0 (yay!)Number of dings on … Read more
Are They Trying to Tell Me Something?
This is the box of t-shirts we had made for the TV shoot. We had imprinted on the shirts “The World Needs More Pie” but the box label stated something slightly different: Beth Howard Needs More Pie. If they were trying to tell me something, well, I couldn’t agree more!
For Valentine’s Day…Not Pie
Looking like two snow-capped volcanoes (appropriate for this part of the country!), it was Red Velvet Cupcakes — not pie — that were my Valentine’s Day treat. While I am not a fan of the whole cupcake craze (how can I be? I’m devoted to pie!), these were homemade by my friend Alison and MUCH … Read more
Return to Portland: Taking a Step Forward
Seeing as I’ve been paying rent for the last two months on my apartment sitting empty in Portland, I finally extracted myself from Southern California and the fame-and-fortune-seeking life as an aspiring TV star of a pie series to return to my own reality show. Rain. Taxes. Unpacking. Unemployment. PHOTO: Shoes of Swan Island. Random … Read more
All We Are Saying Is….
Give a a chance. — variation on a quote by John Lennon as seen on the wall at Mission Pie in San Francisco. Listen to the John Lennon song here.
TV Pilot: What’s Next?
What happens when you spend 12 days shooting footage of other people baking pie? If you’re Janice, you fly back to your home in New Jersey, bake five pies (having never previously baked a pie in your entire life), and invite your whole family over to test your new culinary skills. (Janice’s friend Marguerite pictured … Read more