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 […]
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 […]
Day 11: TV Pilot — LA’s Legendary Apple Pan
Several weeks ago, when we first started on this Great Pie Adventure and I began to schedule pie interviews, The Apple Pan was the first place I called. I had eaten there 20 years ago and as soon as I hung up from the call I rushed over there to satisfy my awakened craving for […]
Mission Pie, PART II — Five Easy Pieces
And now for the best part of every pie interview…THE PIE! It’s the reward for taking our time to learn about every aspect of a pie baker’s business. But a business is often only as successful as the products it sells. So here we go, doing “Quality Control” at Mission Pie.Five easy pieces….starring, from left […]
Day 10: TV Pilot — Pie with a Mission, PART I
We arrived at Mission Pie at 8:00AM on Thursday. The early start time didn’t bother us as we arrived to a warm and cozy atmosphere, nice people, and good, strong coffee. Oh, and a lot of pie. There goes the neighborhood….in a good way. The location of this pie shop is intentional and a way […]
Day 9: TV Pilot — Pie Delivered by Bicycle
Day Nine’s shoot started early in San Francisco — in a torrential downpour. Not good for filming pies being delivered by bicycle! We waited out the rain in a coffee house and I used the time to update my blog. (Has anyone noticed I am 2 days behind?!)The rain let up and we found ourselves […]
Day 8: TV Pilot — Driving from LA to San Francisco
Monday was a dismal day for a drive from LA to San Francisco, but we had interviews lined up for Tuesday and Wednesday and thus were committed to going. We chugged along, sometimes going as slow as 45MPH, over the snowy Tejon Pass.At least I had good company for driving with Janice and Jack as […]
Day 7: TV Pilot — Hello Hollywood
Today was a day of meeting old friends and making new ones. We started off in Malibu at the beach house of Kathy Eldon. Kathy and I met in Nairobi, Kenya 23 years ago where we discovered in the first five minutes of talking that we were both from Iowa. Our friendship has spanned the […]
Day 6: TV Pilot — FREE PIE FOR LA!
What a day. This may have been one of the best, most memorable days of my entire life. I believe it’s a day many people whose lives we touched on Saturday will also remember for a long time to come. Why? Because of PIE! Free pie! How often do you walk down a city sidewalk […]