Happy Pi Day!

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We celebrate Pi Day at work with a festival of pies. I've got to bake one more this morning, so my guys at home don't feel left out. This year we have an epic Pi Day because today's date 3.14.15 gives us not just the first three digits (as in most years) but the first five digits of pi, the famous irrational number  3.14159265359.... that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. And it's also Albert Einstein's birthday!

I thought I’d share some quotes about pie. Because pie is an American metaphor. Pecan Pie. Blueberry Pie. Apple Pie. It’s been a metaphor since someone coined the phrase, “As American as…”

 “Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons.” ~ NY Times, 1902

 “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ~ David Mamet

 “Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie eating nation can ever be vanquished.”  ~NY Times

 “We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that’s gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.” ~Johnny Carson

 “When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it’s not, mmmmmmmm, boy.” ~ Jack Handy

 “You like pie? I like pie.” ~ Barack Obama

Cheers!

Cherie

PS - Tomorrow, back to baking bread!