A look at food to come

For many months I’ve been working with Kim Long on a new type of food trend white paper. Here’s what industry magazine Gourmet Retailer had to say about it today: Foodies Picks & Predictions “Eat In Eat Out” is a 52-page full-color illustrated magazine-style report, packed with insights, perspectives and highlights impacting retail and foodservice … Continue reading →

Pie 5

I wish everyone would bake pies from scratch, so I’m posting pie stuff daily through Thanksgiving Day. For way too much more about pie, visit: http://johnlehndorff.com/JL-Pie.html Pie spirituality: “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 … Continue reading →

Pie thoughts: Oct. 29

I’m posting thoughts about pie from Oct. 26 to Thanksgiving. Here’s a great song sung in the film “Waitress:” “Baby don’t you cry, gonna make a pie/ Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle/ Baby don’t be blue/ Gonna make for you/ Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle/ … Continue reading →

Pie 3: Oct. 28

I’m posting thoughts about pie from Oct. 26 to Thanksgiving. The murky and multi-faceted origins of this great thing we call pie means that no History of Pie will ever be definitive. However, you can find a good one at: http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PieHistory.htm It reminded me that our founding dad, George Washington, was a fan of pie … Continue reading →

Pie 2: I’m posting thoughts daily about pie from Oct. 26 to Thanksgiving. Oct. 27: One of my favorite film pie moments is in Michael, starring John Travolta as a hard-to-satiate angel: – “We want pie. What have you got?” – “ I got them memorized, okay? Ready? We got apple, of course… …banana cream, … Continue reading →

A month of pie: No. 1

Since I love pie and I wish everyone would bake pies from scratch, I’m sending daily posts about pie from Oct. 26 to Thanksgiving. – From my entry in the This I Believe archives: “I believe in pie. My favorite food, bar none, is warm, fresh wild blueberry pie a la moded with good vanilla … Continue reading →

Death of a food magazine

Au revoir, Gourmet It’s the ultimate irony that even as the interest in all things culinary has boomed in the United States, Gourmet magazine will die after the November issue, it was announced today. The problem is that interest in anything printed on paper is low and dwindling rapidly, even when it’s a landmark, classy, … Continue reading →