The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies
Sunday Nov. 19th is the last day to enter the Thanksgiving pie contest. To win two superb pies of your choice just tell me in 100 words or less what your all pie Thanksgiving menu would consist of and why. On Monday I will announce the winner and figure out the logistics of delivering the pies. The other pie winners (for correctly identifying the two pie quotes) will also be notified then.
Remember, both New Yorkers and non-New Yorkers can enter the contest. New Yorkers will receive two pies from either Two Little Red Hens or Yura & Company. Serious pie lovers in other cities will receive pies from either their favorite local pie baker or from Grand Traverse Pie Company, the best mail-order pie baker I have found.
Now for a few slices of Thanksgiving pie info:
Megnut continues to have a great week with her Thanksgiving meal media round-up.
The Amateur Gourmet weighs in with a typically idiosycratic and amusing Thanksgiving menu post.
Kudos to Melissa Clark for an absolutely first-rate, entertaining, and informative piece on pie crust in Wednesday's New York Times. The story was a soulful, Steingartenesque tour de force, with the Thanksgiving story lead of the century: "A few years ago I achieved perfection in a pie crust and it smelled like pig."
On Monday I am going to post an edited version of Karen Barker's brilliant mini-treatise on pie and pie crusts, taken from her indispensable book, Sweet Stuff: Karen Barker's American Desserts.
As I've said before Karen makes the best pies I've ever tasted.
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Ed: When I reply to one of your posts, my e-mail address does not come up. I am just listed as "Edit." Are you able to tell who I am or do I need to do something to remedy this? I went on my profile page but couldn't find any place to put any additional information. Thank you, pam@erogers.net
progers at 7:50AM on 11/17/06
Any chance Karen would consider doing mail-order??
progers at 7:52AM on 11/17/06
Chocolate cream pie, with just the right amount of meringue on top, just slays me. I would definitely serve that AND, without a doubt, a Joe’s Stone Crabs (Miami Beach, FL) Key Lime Pie, which gives “to die for†a whole new meaning. What more does one really need besides these two delectable pies? Possibly a pumpkin pie, but then again why? And as an accessory, I would make a fresh chambord whipped cream, and along with that I would give people the option of vanilla Haagen Daz ice cream. pam@erogers.net
progers at 7:57AM on 11/17/06
It's just a bug that we are trying to work out. When your posts come up on my computer your name accompanies them. I'm sorry about the bug. We will have it worked out shortly.
Ed Levine at 9:13AM on 11/17/06
Bay Ridge pizza. (What? Pizza isn't pie?)
Ebinger’s coconut custard pie, in memory of childhood Thanksgivings in a crowded railroad apartment in Brooklyn.
The raspberry pie I shared with my Maine-born husband at a county fair. I couldn’t stop talking about how astonishing the pies in Maine were—and, years later, I still can’t.
Dessert would be the apple pie baked by my best friend. The crust was astonishingly inedible. She added triple the amount of cinnamon called for to the filling. It’s the apple pie I’ll always remember, though—how many pies are filled with laughter and apples?
Barbara Hanson at 12:42PM on 11/17/06
Naturally, the following quotation was printed in a New York Times editorial in the year 1902. Happy pie eating, folks.
"It is utterly insufficient (to eat pie only twice a week), as anyone who knows the secret of our strength as anation and the foudation of our industrial supreacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished."
-Greg
Greg at 1:44PM on 11/17/06
Pie, pie beautiful pie!
Do you remember the pie song in the movie "Michael"?
I'd have to have raspberry pie with its fruity sweetness and lovely jewel-tones.
And then pecan pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or gelato - the best of two worlds.
Do I have to stop now? Lemon meringue and cherry, of course. Or good friend Don's chocolate brownie eanut butter pie or peach pie....the list goes on.
Oddly, pumpkin pie is not in my top ten unless it's made by my aunt Mary. Alas, only the angels in heaven can enjoy her pie now.
rconnelly at 2:40PM on 11/17/06
a meal from the oven, one crust or two
to begin – a reverse pie
a soupe veloutée of butternut squash and leeks topped with a parmesan puff pastry crust
to entice – a shift for the palette
cranberry salsa and fresh pea purée in baked wonton shells
to enjoy – an old favorite revised
smoked turkey and Swiss chard layered with crisp phyllo dough, served with sauce chasseur and crème fraîche
to complete – a clean and bright classic
orchard fresh apples, studded with sweet butter and cinnamon, baked in a straight pastry crust topped with sweet whipped cream laced with house-infused vanilla liqueur
urbancook at 5:33PM on 11/17/06
Hah!
1. Rosie's Bakery, Cambridge MA: APPLE PIE.
Because it's THANKSGIVING.
Because it's APPLE PIE.
Because Apple Pie is REALLY GOOD.
Because Rosie's is REALLY GOOD.
Because it's one of my fondest memories of living in Cambridge.
Because it's New England -- how much more Thanksgiving-y can you get?
2. Fred's (wife's) sweet potato pie. Fred sells'em at the Farmer's Market in Union Square. (Or he used to. It's been awhile.) I'm not sure it's even sweet potato, but it's the right flavor, and a great recipe (think BUTTER!) Their stuff is better'n most bakeries care to do.
3. Nesselrode pie. You find it, I'll eat it. (Didn't you go looking for this awhile back?)
It's something I loved as a child. Childhood, family, Thanksgiving, food. For me, this sort of brings it all together, even though it was not something we ever had at Thanksgiving.
3 pies for 3 phases of my life. Thanksgiving to bring past and present together with family, to share.
graffito at 9:10PM on 11/18/06
EDITORIAL
New York Times, 1902
"It is utterly insufficient (to eat pie only twice a week), as anyone who knows the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished."
In response to an Englishman’s suggestion that Americans should reduce their daily pie eating to two days per week.
graffito at 9:22PM on 11/18/06
I just changed two words tonight, I hope I didn't blow the deadline; my initial post was written on Friday. Good luck to all, and Happy Turkey and Pie Day!
Barbara Hanson at 11:28PM on 11/19/06