Dispatches From the Mackville Day Pie Winner
Last weekend we escaped New York and our wedding planning (your officiant had the right idea, Lori!) and went to see our friends the Avery/Grenkow clan in Vermont. It was EXACTLY what the doctor ordered. Not only was it not humid, but it was in the 70's and it was well, VERMONT, which is green and glorious and community friendly. I had no idea how much I needed to hang out with good friends in a quiet and beautiful setting.The day after we arrived, it was the hotly anticipated MACKVILLE DAY, which is our friends' community bbq, complete with puppet shows, watermelon, balloon toss, and a pie contest. Last year's Mackville day had steep pie competition, culminating in a CONTROVERSIAL win by one of the judge's spouses. It must have left a sour taste in everyone's mouth, because only ONE pie showed up--and it was from a PROFESSIONAL. My friend Diane, who was on the Mackville Day planning committee encouraged me to make a pie for the contest. I say ENCOURAGED, but what I really mean to say is COWED ME INTO SUBMISSION. So I made my first ever chocolate cream pie at the last minute.
Here was the competition: a raspberry pie from Connie's Kitchen, and my little o' chocolate cream pie that could.
I was SHOCKED SHOCKED SHOCKED to be crowned the 2007 Mackville Day Pie Contest Winner. I can't put into words how good it felt to bring that title BACK to New York. It's totally going in my bio now. Summer Pierre is the winner of the Mackville Day pie contest. It has a certain RING to it. I was INTOXICATED all weekend by the victory.Other things to do in Vermont besides win pie contests is to go swimming in glorious lakes.
Tame the wild Beatrix.
Tried our darndest to decipher what exactly was HAPPENING in a performance by Bread and Puppet Theater. We weren't able to crack the code.
And, of course, eat the RARE and DELICIOUS Maple Creemee against wild skies of clouds and green mountains. I think this should be the new poster for Vermont tourism.
They might call it, COWED INTO SUBMISSION, but as the 2007 WINNER of the Mackville Day pie contest, they couldn't RESIST my power.
posted by Summer Pierre at
9:57 AM
6 Comments:
Congratulations on winning the pie contest! Any chance you'll share your recipe?
I have never known* a pie contest winner before, this is such an exciting development!
* Okay, I know I don't technically know-you know you but you know what I mean. WOW!
First off, congratulations on your pie victory, and good luck with the final push to get the wedding organized.
Secondly, I’ve seen Bread & Puppet a few times over the past 15 years and have been similarly baffled. It’s clear enough to me from their little pamphlets and some aspects of the performance that they have a problem with the excesses of unregulated capitalism. But they don’t always spell out problems in specific terms, so that you can tell they are referring to, say, gentrification, global abuse of worker’s rights and the environment, or homogenization (in which cultural diversity is threatened, and the world starts to resemble one huge strip mall).
They also obviously have a problem with war, but maybe they find today’s global conflicts too tricky to boil down to simple terms. And hey, on that count, can you blame them? Some of us had the sense to disagree with the original measure authorizing the Iraq War, to begin with -- but we couldn’t find a way to stop, say, John Kerry or Hillary Clinton for voting for it. And how many people really know what to do about it now? I don’t see most people wanting to take on such grisly, gnarly topics on a daily basis, unless they are PAID to be journalists, politicians, “think tank” experts, or professors.
(Well, I don't think this is "ugly" or "hate filled" so much as long and sprawling, but I sure don't blame you for censoring it due to it's LENGTH... it's hard to fit a complex dialogue into soundbites sometimes, though!)
Congratulations on the pie win! And I agree that your Maple Creemee shot should totally be the new poster for Vermont tourism.
Thanks, Gals! The glory still hasn't left me. The secret is my crust!
xo
Summer
Wow! A pie contest winner!! Is there anything you can't do!!!!! Congratulations!!!!
Good luck with the wedding and all the best to the two of you!!! It will be glorious! :)
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