A Weekend of Pie Making
Last week my sister pie maker, Catherine Gewertz, came to visit me at Pie Cottage. I was introduced to Curvy Mama Pies—that’s the name of her independent pie business in Bethesda, MD—when she contacted me a few years back about what it would take to have me come to the DC area to teach a workshop or two. Simple enough…a kitchen with roll out space for four pie makers, a reliable oven that would fit all of them in, and a place to lay my head. She had them all and that started our pie sisterhood. I’ve been to her east coast home several times to teach, meet up to judge a pie competition in another state, and now she has made the pilgrimage (as some call it) to Pie Cottage for a weekend of pie making. We had a blast rolling together but that doesn’t even come close to what it is like to share a love for the craft with another who doesn’t think it odd at all to talk pie from the moment she steps into the pie mobile when I picked her up at SeaTac, to the moment I dropped her off for her to begin the next leg of her journey. When we get together we talk pie pretty much non-stop.

Sour Pie Cherries

Sour Cherry Pie

Lilliwaup Spot Prawn Pie
Kate – great and personable post as to expected. Nice to get introduced to ‘Curvy Mama Pies’ as I have never heard of it before today. So thank you for that, I have followed the shop both on facebook and twitter. Keep up the great work and if and when I get around to making your ‘Best of Show Cherry Pie’ I will definitely let you know!
I hope that you like the cherry pie and thanks for checking in, David! Kate