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Article: PIE JUDGING IS FULFILLING.(Spotlight on Food)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- January 29, 1997
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Byline: Marty Meitus Rocky Mountain News Food Editor
We came, we tasted, we intimidated.
All part of being a judge at the National Pie Championships in Boulder last week.
Pies have become a cause celebre these days, thanks to the American Pie Council and its head pie man, John Lehndorff, food editor at the Boulder Daily Camera. Pies just don't get any respect, says Lehndorff. Since the '40s, pie consumption has dropped precipitously. (You don't see Nabisco falling all over itself to produce a good pie, do you?)
Pie baking, in particular, has become a lost art, because ``the only way to learn how to make a pie is by osmosis,'' says ...