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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Today is National Pie Day -- NPR piece on Beth Howard, Pie Evangelist (Iowa writer)

www.npr.org/ -- Weekend Sunday program

Her posted online biography at Google Blog --

http://theworldneedsmorepie.blogspot.com/

Beth Howard is a writer and pie baker. Her popular blog, The World Needs More Pie, chronicles her travels and adventures in pie, and explores how pie helps her heal from the unexpected death of her 43-year-old husband. She learned how to make pie at age 17, when she got caught stealing apples from the orchard of a retired pastry chef. Since then, she has baked pies for celebrities in Malibu, she’s been a pie judge at the National Pie Championships and at the Iowa State Fair, and she's taught pie baking to groups of all ages. She lives in the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, where she sells pie at her Pitchfork Pie Stand. She is currently working a pie-related memoir and is developing a TV series about, what else, pie.

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