The Ripple Effect
I was feeling a little guilty over advocating alchohol as a pain soother in my last post, but my guilt was assuaged when I received an email from my friend Angela in Santa Monica. She wrote, “Sorry to hear you had a grief burst and about your MINI ding. But I’m all in favor of […]
When Pie is Not Enough
I had a hard week. I won’t bother going into details, but it had something to do with what I later learned is called a “grief burst.” Just when I thought I was doing soooooo much better. Hmmmph. At least it helps to define these things so you know you’re “normal” and thus deeming it […]
Job Hunting
I have applied for three pie baking jobs so far. No one is hiring. Or at least no one is hiring me. Granted, it must seem a little disjointed to a Portland pastry chef that a corporate trained media-savvy 40-something wants to bake pie. Then again, I offer an abundance of enthusiasm, a dearth of […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]