cherry pi(e)
And what better thing to go with pi/pies than coffee! I know book lovers also enjoy other beverages, but to me coffee is the clear winner. Random House in partnership with Birch Coffee has a wonderful little free PDF book about books and coffee
Now, if you are a coffee lover beware because you will be adding books about coffee to your TBR list. I didn’t want to but I couldn’t help myself. Also, I have decided that I am going to have to read Trollope’s The Warden sometime solely on the basis of this quote:
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? Was ever anything so civil?
I dunno, I am hard pressed to imagine something more luxurious.
Also in the PDF book are fun facts about authors. Like did you know Balzac supposedly drank 50 cups of coffee a day? And no, this was not a healthy addiction because he died at the age of 51 from complications attributed to his massive coffee consumption. I wonder how he ever managed to sleep?
Enjoy the free book about coffee and I hope you get some pie to go along with it!
Book group tomorrow night. The chapter this time is about creating a “working home” and breaking oneself of the cultural push and desire for a “showcase home.”
Ooh, I wonder what a “working home” looks like? I’m trying to break myself of my desire to have things looking spotless before inviting someone over. My small home is certainly no “showcase” but I still worry way too much about how it looks when company is over. I want to socialize and not obsess about silly stuff. I know that’s not exactly what the author’s probably getting at, but it fits into the desire to have your house look like a magazine spread.
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Laila, I would say comfortably lived in from her description of her own home. I used to worry too about things looking spotless when people came over but I gave that up because I figured if someone was offended by dust on a bookshelf then I’d rather not have them in my house.
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Hand pies are certainly acceptable for pi day. Goodness.
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Care, yes! I hope you had some delicious pie!
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I was only thinking of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Ang Lee’s movie adaptation. Not coffee. O well, there’s always next year. 😉
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Arti, LOL, coffee is good year round and so is pie/pi 🙂
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Books+ coffee + pies, square or round or triangular = Bliss! Sigh!! Also downloaded the book 😀
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cirtnecce, you are a woman after my own heart! 😀
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Happy belated Pi day!
I tend to really like books on good food and beverages. I have read a few on cheese, wine and beer. Coffee is also a very worthy subject. I love good coffee served black.
In fact, I am drinking some now.
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Brian Joseph, while my husband is the one who does all the cooking, I love to read cookbooks 🙂 As much as I love coffee I have never read a book about but that will definitely change!
Black coffee is good but I prefer a little nondairy milk in mine, just a little, and never sugar. blech.
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I’m heading off to boil the kettle now, thanks for the inspiration!
Can you remind us about the book your transition book group is reading? It all sounds so fascinating. In my muddled way, yes, I am trying to have a working home, not a show home. But what is important to me in my home is that it is calm and offers a shelter from the invasive nature of modern culture – that helps me engage much better with the job of living. I’d be interested to hear how ‘functional’ the definition of a working home or whether that sort of cultural consideration comes in too.
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maggie LOL, you’re welcome! 🙂
The book we are reading is called Making Home by Sharon Astyk. The working home is definitely a functional home and generally goes against most cultural ideas of what an “average” home should be like. The author doesn’t even have a refrigerator. And she talks about sometimes worrying what the neighbors think of her front yard wildflower garden and lack of manicured lawn. She thinks a working home is lived in and beautiful because of that, the big bucket of tomatoes on the kitchen counter waiting to be canned instead of the elegant ceramic bowl of perfect fruit, that kind of thing.
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Yum! Hand pies are all about the radiuses (radii?), so they definitely count! Thanks for the coffee ebook link!
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Laurie, the pie came out so good. I hope you enjoy the ebook!
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50 cups a day! He must have been well and truly wired! Having been brought up in something of a ‘show home’ I never had any inclination to do that in my own home – much too stressful. However, it does take me a very long time to tidy up if anyone comes round!
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Victoria, I know, right? How he could even sit still to write is a marvel in itself. You know, I see pictures in magazines and think so pretty, wouldn’t it be nice to live there? And then I think, no, I’d be terrified to touch anything, to make a smudge, to put my feet up and relax and I’d always be running around cleaning. No way! I have better things to do 🙂
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Wow-I love coffee but I cannot even imagine consuming so many cups. I don’t think I could even drink 50 cups of water on a hot day! Now my two cups (okay, maybe three on weekends) does not feel so very decadent. I saw that coffee lovers guide, too, and had to print it out-have only glanced at it so far. I love that quote–I wish I was somewhere warmer and cozy and had a cup of coffee my book and and one of your very yummy looking cherry hand pies–Bookman is a genius in the kitchen!
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Danielle, Bookman is a genius in the kitchen and the pies came out so good it was hard to stop at just one! 50 cups in a day boggles the mind doesn’t it? Maybe they were really small cups? We have the same coffee habit! 🙂
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Happy belated Pi Day! I love your creative take on the celebratory pie for the day. For me, the beverage of choice would be tea, but I do enjoy a cup of coffee every now and then.
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AMB, technically ever day is Pi Day it’s just not a good idea to actually eat pie everyday 😉 I enjoy a good cup of herbal tea now and then, especially mint, but there is nothing like a good cup of coffee in my book both figuratively and literally!
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I’m a coffee lover too – straight black no sugar. I’m just wondering how often Balzac had to go to the loo in a day?!
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pining, yay! Another coffee lover! You know, I was wondering the same thing about Balzac. Maybe the loo is where he got all his best ideas? 🙂
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I was feeling too lazy to make pie, but we did have pizza for dinner!
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biblioglobal, pizza is a more than acceptable way to celebrate Pi Day! We did that one year. I seem to recall we had shepherd’s pie one year too. Pi is everywhere!
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Bookman made those pies? They look wonderful! I am always so impressed when people manage to make attractive baked goods. Mine always come out lopsided and miserable-looking. God did not intend me for a baker.
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Jenny, yes he did! He is a kitchen wizard! I can tell you they taste absolutely fantastic. My cake sometimes comes out a bit, um interesting, so my philosophy is it’s not how it looks that matters but how it tastes. Good looks are just a bonus 🙂
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I think you’ll love The Warden – Septimus Harding is such a lovely character (can you imagine anyone these days being called Septimus??). But you can’t stop at that one and absolutely have to read the next one with the even more wonderful character of Mr Slope..
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BookerTalk, There is a Septimus is Mrs. Dalloway but yeah, hard to imagine actually meeting someone with that name! Thanks for the tip about the second one, I would have planned to stop at The Warden, but now I will keep going 🙂
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I’ll be anxiously awaiting your verdict now!
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I love coffee too – long black (as we call it in Australia – not a standard version you have in the US and I really miss it when I’m there.) with just a teensy bit of sugar. I just need the edge taken off. But I have the equivalent of 2 a day (we make a blend at home of half full strength/half decaf), or 3 at the most. 50 – of any size, even small, sounds unbelievable. Clearly he had an addictive personality.
I’d love to know if I could make a hand-pie with GF flour. I so miss pies, since I went wheat-free thirty years ago.
I look forward to your report on the transition bookgroup because I too struggle with “breaking oneself of the cultural push and desire for a “showcase home.” I’m happy not to have a showcase home, and am quietly frustrated by the mania to upgrade perfectly usable kitchens and bathrooms to be modern. The mania makes me uncomfortable about having people over who subscribe to it – I know which friends don’t and love having them over, but the others make me really self-conscious. In my head I know I shouldn’t be, but it’s such hard work overcoming it. I’m stupid, stupid, stupid. It’s such a ridiculous world we’re in. The focus on appearance – personal, house, whatever – is so skewed in so many ways.
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whisperinggums, oh, long black, I like the sound of that! I like my coffee fully caffeinated and brewed strong. Two cups a day works just fine and I allow myself the indulgence of three on Saturdays 🙂
I suspect you could make a perfectly delicious GF pie crust. You just can;t be squeamish about the amount of butter/fat that goes into it.
I will have to post about book group because we finished the chapter early enough to talk about it. None of us are stupid, it is just really hard to go against cultural norms and there are so many especially regarding what makes a beautiful home. We are assaulted with magazines and TV shows and commercials and peer pressure and it is not easy to break away from that.
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Great. I’ll be really interested. Interestingly I find it easier to ignore norms re my “self” eg not dyeing hair, not wearing makeup, never wearing heels, than re my house having a lived-in look.
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