And Starring: Pie

Oh my god! How did I not know about this? Pushing Daisies, which has been recommended to me but which I haven't managed to watch (my TV watching has waned...my brain only has room for crime procedurals or Tina Fey, it seems) features PIE. The show is about - wait for it - a pie baker/shop owner who can bring people back from the dead. And some other quirky things. Point is, what, a show about pie? And I only find out about it as it's getting canceled? Damn. Oh well. At least I can try one of its recipes. The pie-making, dead-raising protagonist brings back his childhood crush, who proceeds to bake a delicious sounding Pear-Gruyere pie, featured here. Yum. I'm going to try it. Apparently, on the show, she makes it for her anxious aunts and includes crushed up anti-depressants, in hopes said aunts will medicate unknowingly. I gotta say, with my fair share of nutty relatives, I can understand the impulse.

This got me thinking about all the pie featured in TV and film. I could find recipes all over. There's that little movie, The Waitress -- oh, and that gross-out series of movies I never saw. You know, the ones with pie in the title. I'll try and come up with more...

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long beach kelster said…
We just visited Grandma Betsy and she would love one of those special high-flying pies to be sure!
November 23, 2008 at 7:06 PM
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