GIVEAWAY – Pies and Tarts with Heart

GIVEAWAY – Pies and Tarts with Heart

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED. THANKS FOR ALL THE FUN ANSWERS!

I love making pies in the summer even though it’s a thousand degrees in my kitchen. The only thing better than a freshly made cherry pie is maybe a peach pie. Or a tart made of fresh tomatoes from the garden. It’s hard to say. Then we turn the corner into fall and it becomes all about the apple pie and then the holiday sweet potato pies and pecan pies. In the dark of winter I love nothing more than a comforting shephard’s pie or a pot pie. Dynise Balcavage’s new book has all of these pies and more and I can’t wait to get my hot little hands on it. There are all the traditional pies I mentioned, quiches, creamy pies, tarts, raw food pies, and even imposter pies like whoopie pies and pizza pie and savory pies like “Hashbrown Crusted Breakfast Pie” & “North African Inspired Kale Pie”.

I could eat nothing but pie and be completely happy and soon you can too because Fair Winds Press is giving away 4 copies of the book! Also I’m excited to let you know that the book will be available internationally so everyone can participate.

To enter just comment below, with an email address that you check, and tell me about your favorite movie, tv show, song, painting, multimedia installation, art work, or any other media about pie! And pizza counts. The best entries will win a copy of the book.

Have fun!

113 thoughts on “GIVEAWAY – Pies and Tarts with Heart

  1. I feel like the BEST pie scene in a movie is during the movie The Help when Minny makes a chocolate pie for Hilly, the snotty woman who hires Minny as a housekeeper. Long story short, Minny makes Hilly feel like it is a peace offering, but it turns out that the chocolate pie is not made of chocolate at all. I won’t get too graphic but if you have seen the movie you know what I mean!!

  2. I’m glad you included pizza in your Pie Requirement, because the first musical number that comes to my mind is “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s amore …” 🙂

  3. I don’t remember the reason, but at some point during The Rocketeer, Billy Campbell was very emphatic about all he wanted was “some pie and coffee”

  4. Thanks to your contest, I’ve finally found the meaning of my son’s inane repetition of the phrase “I like pie,” which has become an insult, nay, a communication handicap, to those of us who truly do.

  5. I have been in love with pie since I was five years old and learned the lyrics “can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy…”. I went home and demanded to bake a pie, so that I could be like the girl in the song. Been baking ever since!

  6. The first one that came to mind was of course, American Pie, the movie. The ridiculously awkward
    apple pie scene! LOL!

  7. My favorite is an I love Lucy episode where the Ricardos and Mertzes decide to go into business together and buy a diner. Well, there appears to be a disparity regarding the workload, feathers get ruffled and they divide the diner in half to determine the most popular side by underpricing each other. Things inevitably become strained and a food fight ensues with pies flying left & right! It’s hilarious!

  8. so I know someone already mentioned mystic pizza, but the episode of 30 rock where jenna is in mystic pizza: the musical and has to eat 32 slices of pizza a week is hilarious. one of my favorite episodes, always makes me crave my favorite vegan pizza from city o city in Denver!

  9. The movie Thinner. The movie is about an overweight man who runs over a gypsy and is then cursed. He starts losing weight no matter how much he eats. Anyway in the movie there is a pie that is poisoned. His daughter ends up eating the pie. I don’t know why but every time I watch this movie I just want cherry pie.

  10. I immediately thought of the Psych episode “Dual Spires”, which was of course an homage to Twin Peaks, where everyone is eating and talking about the cinnamon pie at the local cafe. It basically combines many of my favorite things (namely, Psych, Twin Peaks, and pie).

  11. My favorite pie reference is N’Sync’s song, “Pie, Pie, Pie.”

    I just want to tell you that I’ve had enough
    It might sound crazy but it ain’t no lie
    Baby pie pie pie

  12. Ooooh, pie. I just watched “Twin Peaks” for the first time earlier this year (I know, I know! And I’m originally from Washington state!), and when Agent Cooper tells Diane that she should try the cherry pie? I was hooked.

  13. What about Pi? It makes me think of a bar I liked in San Francisco named Pi Bar that served delicious beer and solid pizza (death by mushrooms with mushrooms sauted in beer!). The best part, it opened everyday at 3:14. Oh Pi!

  14. Waitress is a movie I always think about when someone mentions pie. Silly and sweet.

    ‘I can’t have no affair, because it’s wrong and i don’t want Earl To Kill Me Pie. Hold the Banana.’
    Her pies made of her feelings always makes me smile.

  15. I wrote a pie recipe after listening to “Sweet Sweet Pie” By PWEI. It totally has nothing to do with pie. I know, I even stretched it in my darn blog post about it. But… PIE!

  16. Wow this book sounds amazing! My favourite pie related thing is the TV show Pushing Daisies, which is also my favourite TV show ever. The main character is the Pie Maker- he bakes pies & wakes the dead =). Except for lacking his magical powers, I think I am very similar to the main character and we are both obsessed with pie!
    If anybody happens to read this comment and decide to watch this show, I recommend you have some pie on hand because you will really really want some soon =)
    This is why I need so much pie, because I am always watching this show =P

    xo mofo-ers 🙂

  17. Of course there is Waitress, but there is also No Reservations. I love the scene where Aaron Eckhart and Abigail Breslin kick Catherine Zeta Jones out of the kitchen and make pizza together which they serve to her under a makeshift tent inside the living room with stuffed animals and pretend they are on a safari!

    But I love any movie that has something to do with food!

  18. On True Blood, just after Adele dies, Sookie gets so upset when Maxine tries to move Adele’s banoffee pie (I think?) out of the fridge. Sookie later eats it, mourning her deceased grandmother. There is absolutely no better way to commemorate someone!

  19. That’s A more was the first that sprung to mind, but someone already mentioned that, so I’m going to go with Cartman in South Park trying to get people to attend a meeting by telling them there will be punch and pie. There turns out not to be, but the mention of it counts, right?

  20. “That’s Amore”, of course! Just thinking about the song I can hear my entire family obnoxiously bust out the chorus. I love them!!! ?

    Thanks!!

  21. How about the “The Big Night” where 2 brothers make a Timballo in anticipation for Louie Prima showing up at their Italian restaurant.

    A Timballo is huge spaghetti pie that is made in a mixing bowl that is covered with pie crust, stuffed with pasta, sauce, meatballs, veggies, etc., pressed down, then turned upside down so it makes a dome-shaped pie. It’s typically not vegan, but we should totally try to make one!

  22. My guilty pleasure is watching the American Pie movies. Obviously the pie-related media in question would be the famous pie scene in the first one. However, I fully admit that I have seen every single American Pie movie ever made. There are like, 10 of them. The only person from the original cast who shows up now is Eugene Levy for a quick cameo. Every time they release a new one, it only gets worse but I can’t. stop. watching.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLZC7dc_u14

  23. Another vote for Waitress! How can you not love something with Lonely Chicago Pie?

    “Let’s go have coffee somewhere.”
    “I can’t have coffee. What kind of doctor are you?”

    Oooh, there’s also a really cute kids’ book called, “Betsy, Who Cried Wolf,” by Gail Carson Levine. The main character’s family own a Pie Shop, that makes savory & sweet pies and she always has pie for lunch as she’s guarding the sheep. That’s how she becomes friends with the wolf (who was just hungry!).

  24. I adore Pushing Daisies and Waitress as much as other commenters here, but I have to add two different things that I also love:

    Weebl and bob love pie: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/119283

    Buffy’s Thanksgiving episode, “Pangs”: Anya: “I love a ritual sacrifice.” Buffy” “Not really a… one of those.” Anya: “To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It’s a ritual sacrifice. With pie.”
    (Also from that episode: Giles: “Buffy, Xander’s in real danger. Are you sure the solution is pie?” Buffy: “Over bickering and confusion, I’ll take pie. We will find a solution. And we will have a nice dinner, ok? Both. End of story. I’m having thanksgiving, and it’ll be perfect.”

  25. Pushing up daisies was my favorite show with pie. Because who wouldn’t love to turn that box of strawberries rotting in the fridge into ripe beauties in a pie crust?

  26. I memorized every word of Don McLean’s “American Pie” when I was eight years old. I remember them to this day, and that song will forever make me want to dance. And eat pie.

  27. Okay so I know these have been mentioned, but I AM TOTALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT PIE ON TELEVISION:

    [Vegan] cheese baked into the crust, anyone?!!??!? Also I remember Olive giving Ned a raincoat with pies on it at some point and ohmygoodness I wish it was in my closet…

    Also, I once made “cup-pies” as an homage to Pushing Daisies:

    BUT COOPER AND THAT CHERRY PIE OH MY GOODNESS. I once made a birthday card for my partner inspired by Cooper’s love for food:

    AND WHO COULD OVERLOOK DEAN ON SUPERNATURAL:

    There’s more (don’t even get me started on pizza…) but I’ll stop there. *blushes out of slight embarrassment*

  28. I don’t know if you can say “Supernatural” is about pie, but Dean definitely loves pie and talks about it often! Thank you for offering such a great giveaway!

  29. My husband I call each other pie.
    But he is Pi and I am Py. So on March 14th we calculate the area of a flaming cherry pie!!

  30. info at jorele dot com

    This looks like an awesome book! My answer to the question: when I was little, my mom and dad loved to sing a song that I think came from Sesame Street. It was to the tune of Twinkle Little Star and the words were “Twitter, twitter, little bird / Isn’t eating crumbs absurd? / How about some ham on rye / Or a piece of cherry pie? / If the crumbs are all you want, / Get out of my restaurant!”

    Now I sing it to my girls, too. 🙂

    …I just went and googled it and here’s a link to the script of the whole skit: http://www.metrolyrics.com/twinkle-twinkle-little-star-lyrics-sesame-street.html My mom and dad remembered the words a bit wrong apparently, but the idea is the same!

  31. I saw this guy at an arts festival years ago when I was back in middle school and fell in love with a particular massive painting of his, “Hibernation.” A lot of his other works are in a rather different, whimsical vein, this being one of them: http://psingerart.com/his_work/pie-in-the-sky/
    Other paintings include “A Mangoes to a Bar,” “A Perfect Pair,” “Apple of My Eye,” “In the Limelight,” “Lemon Drop,” “Peaches and Cream,” and “Underwatermelon.” They’re quirky & pretty fun. he also has a lot of nature paintings involving animals and the seasons. I recommend his work!

  32. Probably my favorite movie scene involving pie is a scene from early on in When Harry Met Sally. Sally and Harry have just met in order to share expenses for a trip from their college to New York which both of them are moving to. They stop at a diner and Sally orders pie in her inimitable Sally way. I found an excerpt from the scene on YouTube. Here’s hoping my first attempt at embedding a video clip works:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnlm2e3EN78

    Besides this I also really liked the TV show Pushing Daisies which was set at a bakery/restaurant called the Pie Hole and involved magical pie making.

    And in terms of music, I love Don McLean’s song “American Pie”. Yes, I like it so much that I even like the Madonna version (sacrilege, I know).

    It’s hard to pick among all these but I think my favorite might be When Harry Met Sally, because I adore that movie. That may make me a middle aged fogey but there you have it.

  33. Going the other route here, I always think of The Help where she makes her special “chocolate” pie. It was gross, but talk about eating a slice of humble pie!

  34. You gotta love Eric Cartman’s chocolate chicken pot pie (South Park). 😉 If I was feeling more ambitious and seasoned this year, I would have done that for TV Tuesdays, but with seitan, of course! And it would have been gloriously disgusting!

  35. I love the song “Blueberry Pie” from the Free to be You and Me tape/cd from when I was growing up. Bette Middler sand it and it is amazing 🙂

  36. Scottish punk band Oi Polloi’s track “Anarcho-Pie” is pretty much just a recipe for a politically symbolic savory vegan pie:

    “Using the spare bits of pastry, decorate the top of the pie with a pastry anarchy sign – symbolising our never-ending resistance to the omnicidal system that perverts our lives.”

  37. I really, REALLY, loved the movie Waitress with all those awesome pies she made up. “I hate my husband pie” etc, really awesome movie.

  38. The intro to Louie makes me crazy when he goes into the pizza place and gets a slice and then takes a couple of bites and then tosses it! I love it and hate it at the same time.

  39. While this movie is not exactly about pie, pizza pie played a large role in the main characters’ diet. And I kinda was obsessed about them when I was younger….Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

  40. WHERE’S MY PIE! in the style of Cartman on South Park. Mystic Pizza also comes to mind. But I have to say the most recent Pie TV has to come from the last season of the Next Food Network Star “Pie Style”. vegintraining at g mail dot com

  41. Favorite movie “Big Lewbowski” has nothing to do with pie but I do live by the dude’s mantra that when it comes to eating pie this dude or dudette abides

  42. I love baking and came across this website from a friend called The Pie Academy http://thepieacademy.com/. It breaks pies down to a science lol; from traditional pies, tarts & pizzas it has it all. The owner Ken Haedrich also has videos and even courses for those who are aiming at the professional level. Go check it out!

  43. Pushing Daisies – not only the best show about pie, but the best show, period. Also, I think “Mr. Monk and the Three Pies” was by far the best episode of the series Monk.

  44. I commented yesterday when the thread was open but my comment got stuck in moderation and is still stuck there, Please pull it out of your spam filter before you pick a winner!

  45. There was a really lovely indie film called “Waitress” that was released in 2007 and featured Keri Russell as a pregnant, pie-creating waitress. If you haven’t seen it, it’s definitely worth watching. Thank you for the giveaway!

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