National
Splurge Day’s The Daily Splurge #162 for Sunday, November 30, 2014 was an
Inspiration received from watching CBS Sunday with Charles Osgood and Bill
Geist (amongst other Great Journalists) whose Segment was indeed the tastiest one aired
all Week long on any of the major and minor Television Networks.
In
Dessertdom, there are Two Categories:
Those
who eat Cake and those who eat Pies.
Yes,
that’s comparable to living in the 1960s when Pop Culture began its Climb. You either liked The Beatles or The Rolling
Stones. We all seem to gravitate to
something our personalities prefer.
That, though, is yet another Segment.
Cake
vs. Pie. Pie vs. Cake.
And,
then: There are PIES, like you have
never seen the Likes of. If these Pies
were given their own FACEBOOK Page, they’d have more likes than the Kardashian
Sisters.
LOW
AND BEHOLD: It was Bill’s Assignment to
explore a tiny town in New Mexico, simply called PIE TOWN that has two PIE
SHOPS. They alternate being open. With Pumpkin Pie being the Pie-of-Choice for
this Thanksgiving Weekend, the Segment fit in perfectly with feasting. The week previously on CBS Sunday was their
Food Issue. Broadcasting doesn’t get any
tastier than this. No wonder there are
so many Food Shows. Think about it. Next up will be one called the
PIE-d
PI-p-E-r.
Don’t
mind me, there’s something fun and playful and creatively inventing when you’re
fortified up on PIE.
PiePuns and #Pie_Puns ran rampant, of
course. Cathy Napp and her Mother
visited the Area 20 years ago and her Mother was darn tooting’ and determined
to keep The Pie Restaurant going. That’s
History as now, People hankering for PIE (as that’s all they sell) come from
300 miles away and as far as Canada on Motorcycles for the
ex-P-er-I-enc-E. Add in the vast, global
Coverage CBS is lending to her business and you know darn well, Starbucks' and
McDonald's will be opening up shop next. Let’s
hope not. There’s something mighty awesome about not having concrete and
steel anywhere in the fore-SEE-able distance. Just being alone with your PIE…that’s good
enough for me.
The
only Word I can think of to mark this delicious Dessert that can be made out of
so many different Fruits (for starters) is:
Hap-PIE.
That’s
#hap-PIE in full Twitterese.
WHICH
REMINDS ME OF MY OWN PIE STORY:
Back in the 1990s when I was a Taste
Tester for ‘Nobody does it like Sarah
Lee’ in Chicago on North Halsted, I was called in to taste-test or sample 5 Pies. Yes, my tongue is insured for $1,000,000 back
in ‘the day.’
Because
I was on 1 of my Crazy Diets, I was famished and besides I biked to this
Appointment some 5 miles. I had an appetite built up. Therefore, via my reasoning: Pie would not really show on my Hips – or would
it? I automatically thought that through
the Hidden Passageway where a Pate was pushed through, it would be a spoonful
of Pie. But it wasn’t. Low and behold,
the Bounty was a full Slice of Pie, generous at that. Five (5) full Slices of Pie were the
Assignment for the day.
For
those who diet or die, that’s more than half a pie – probably some 4000
calories. But I had an excuse. I was
determining what Pie Flavors would be best. So I enjoyed. To me, they were all Winners, as the
PIE-o-Neer Café proved to us today.
From
what I would guess, Bill’s inundated with Offers to be his Assistant when asked
to sample another Dessert. Especially
now with Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa on the Horizon, FOOD is on every one’s
Menu(s) and Palate(s).
Could
the incomparable Eli’s Cheesecakes of Chicago be next?
6701 W Forest Preserve Drive - Chicago, Illinois
60634 USA
773-205-3800
http://www.elicheesecake.com/
With
a long, rich and satisfying history, fan base, flavors (that are off-the-PIE-charts,
we could say) and community service (as Eli’s are most hospitable from giving
to the Homeless Shelters to being the Chief Dessert at Galas), I’m guessing
they may be. If so, you read it here first.
WHICH
REMINDS ME AGAIN OF ANOTHER ONE OF MY OWN PIE STORIES:
Skyline Newspaper and Leah Zeldes, the Food
Editor were recruiting Apple Pie Recipes from their Rreadership in conjunction
with a Lettuce Entertainment Restaurants’ Fall Event circa 1998. For those interested in submitting, a Proposal needed to be presented that would
grab the Judges’ Eye as well as the Recipe.
Due to my Story Line, Creative Slant and ‘Apple Pie Font’ I became one
of the Contestants at the Mighty Nice Grill, one of their Restaurants in the
Water Tower Place in the Heart of Michigan Avenue. If anything is going to make you feel like
Julia Child, it will be an Event like this.
Although I didn’t place, the Competition was a gr-EAT Learning Experience.
Later, I remember Leah (now one of my Facebook Friends) approaching me and commenting
that she liked the Fact I used more than two opposing types of Apples in my
Pie. If it ‘applies,’ why not.
I
didn’t think I would have any Pie Flashbacks today. That certainly was not on my Schedule. The Industriousness of People opening up a Pie
Place in the Middle of a deserted Area to showcase a Dessert (as PIE) demos the
Tenacity and Intensity of the American Spirit where the American Dream and
Apple Pie (as well as so many more Varieties) do come true. And with a Little Luck will get Attention from
a major Network.
AND,
above all else, it’s pretty amazing how One Dessert can develop into a Blog of
its own. Hail-Hail, PIE. Being deemed as:
‘America’s
Premier Eventologist’ by Gene Koprowski of Insight Magazine in August of 1997
&
‘The
Premier Eventologist in the History of the World’ by Eric Zorn of the Chicago
Tribune in January of 2001
I
decree that November 30 and every Month thereafter (except February, of course)
is:
Pie
Pickin’ Day ©2014
Pick-a-Pie
or order a Dozen from Pie Town, New Mexico – in the Heart of Bill Geist Country
to indulge.
After
all, isn’t the Root Word of P-rem-IE-r – PIE?
There
goes the Diet. Not necessarily. Tarts are small Pies and Moderation is
key. At 62 you figure out what and what your Body
can’t stand. Luckily, there’s a PIE to
fit each of our Zodiac Signs as well.
As
they say…
OK…as
I say: Now you can have your Pie and eat
it, too! I do have One Quick Question to
ask Bill and that is:
What
did you weigh before you visited the Pie Cafes in Pie Town?
Now,
as the Day edges on, you have to
admit. It’s nice to keep to a
Theme. I think I’ll have a Pizza Pie for
Dinner and then a Chicken Pot Pie for Monday’s Lunch. I wonder what Pie Flavors
would best complement those Entrees? Betcha
Bill has a Segment for that coming up soon.
Now, thanks to Bill Geist, We can have our Pie(s) and eat them, too!
Posted by:
ASK: Adrienne Sioux Koo-PIE-smith
(derived
from: Koopersmith)
Koopersmith’s
Global Communications
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Sunday,
November 30, 2014 - 2:09 PM CST
RESEARCH: Curious as I always am, I was shocked and
disappointed to find that one of the Pie Cafes is closed until March 1, 2015
for Restructuring and the Winter Season. I never thought New Mexico got that
cold…I may have been wrong. But Pie Town
does exist and is online.
ALL ABOUT THE P-Town:
The Diorama - in this case PIE-orama unfolds as:
Pie Town is an unincorporated community and
census-designated place located along U.S. Highway 60 in Catron County, New
Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 Census it had a population of 186.
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