To celebrate our magnanimous country now that Thanksgiving is a week away, here’s my article for this week’s issue of Post-, the Brown Daily Herald’s literary magazine. “It is utterly insufficient [to eat pie only twice a week], as anyone who knows the strength of our nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy must [...]
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life of pie
Posted in Brown, pie on November 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
chocolate peanut butter quick and easy bliss
Posted in chocolate, dessert, easy, peanut butter, pie on July 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Homemade Oreo crust with creamy whipped peanut butter filling appeals to something quite visceral in me. It is what it is, nothing more, nothing less, and that’s its charm. This kind of heaven needn’t be adorned. Even after the pie had a few hours in the fridge for the filling to set, the first cut [...]
four and twenty blackbirds
Posted in blueberry, dessert, holiday, pie on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This monstrosity was present at a 4th of July celebration I attended on Derby, Mississippi. My close family friend Jessica made it; I stayed at their house and woke up to the smell of this mostly butter crust wafting through the old cottage and sneaking in fragrant ribbons under my door. In case you can’t [...]
