Monthly Archives: October 2008
Something Different – Mince Pie Ice-Cream
With the “Festive Season” nearly upon us, this recipe on how to use your “left-over” mince pies in an interesting and novel way caught my eye.
Enjoy!
If you’re a fan of cookies-and-cream ice cream, then you’ll love this way to use those last packets of mince pies. This recipe was inspired by the famous UK chef Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck.
Celebrate your Love with Pie
By Anne Kapler
The Gazette
Oh, how I would have loved to be part of the props department for the movie “Waitress.”
The movie, which was released in theaters in May and on DVD in late November, tells the story of Jenna (Keri Russell), a small-town diner waitress trapped in a bad marriage who consoles herself by making pies ? lots and lots of really delicious-looking pies.
According to a story from the Boston Globe, two “pie wranglers” (how’s that for a job title?) and one “pie mistress” made 250 pies for the film’s 30-day shoot. Continue reading
The 5 Stages of Pie
A tongue in cheek article found on the Culinate website, written by Caroline Cummins, 15 May 2007.
Who knew pie could get so emotional?
In On Death and Dying, her 1969 pop-psychology bestseller, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross outlined what later became known as the Five Stages of Grief. (They are not, so far as anyone has been able to determine, related to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.)
Everybody, Kübler-Ross theorized, goes through at least two of the five stages when dealing with a major life trauma, such as a divorce or serious illness. If you’ve just been given a terminal diagnosis, so the thinking goes, you will at some point experience the emotions associated with the stages.