Pie
I was watching an episode of The Barbara Gaines show:
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG31EAieSJI
where Dave, Barbara and Mary discuss Thanksgiving and spend some time on pies. BTW, Dave's Mom's secret to great pie crust was: lard !
The pie discussion reminded me of the movie/book: The Human Comedy where the hero, Homer, is working evenings as a telegraph messenger during the war. He always goes and buys two day-old pies (for a quarter) to split with the telegrapher and the night manager. Mickey Rooney could be an insanely good movie actor at times, quite subtle (although kinda stagey at other times). But I suppose that as long as there weren't too many takes, it was easy to act as if you were eating pie :)
The Human Comedy was one of Saroyan's most popular works and I enjoyed reading it in high school. According to the wiki, the book was written after the movie was made and they both appeared almost simultaneously. Unfortunately I later bought the memoir, Last Rites, of Saroyan's son, Aram, in 1982. It turned out that William Saroyan left much to be desired as a husband and father. The moral I took from the book was: Jew haters should not marry Jews. Carol Grace (Mrs. Saroyan) divorced/re-married/divorced Saroyan and later married Walter Matthau with whom she was happy for many years. The strange thing was that I probably would never have bought the book, Last Rites, but for the fact that I was browsing in a bookstore on Michigan avenue in Chicago and asked the clerk if he had the book and he did.
Saroyan wrote beautiful, hopeful yet tragic stories. I guess they might be termed bittersweet. But it was disillusioning to find out that he was a lousy human being.
Hopefully Dave's Mom actually used lard and not Crisco or butter - that would be really disillusioning !
BTW, that 25 cents for two pies inflates to:
I think it would be hard to find even one slice of day-old pie for $4.55 these days !
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG31EAieSJI
where Dave, Barbara and Mary discuss Thanksgiving and spend some time on pies. BTW, Dave's Mom's secret to great pie crust was: lard !
The pie discussion reminded me of the movie/book: The Human Comedy where the hero, Homer, is working evenings as a telegraph messenger during the war. He always goes and buys two day-old pies (for a quarter) to split with the telegrapher and the night manager. Mickey Rooney could be an insanely good movie actor at times, quite subtle (although kinda stagey at other times). But I suppose that as long as there weren't too many takes, it was easy to act as if you were eating pie :)
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| The Mick with Frank Morgan eating pie |
The Human Comedy was one of Saroyan's most popular works and I enjoyed reading it in high school. According to the wiki, the book was written after the movie was made and they both appeared almost simultaneously. Unfortunately I later bought the memoir, Last Rites, of Saroyan's son, Aram, in 1982. It turned out that William Saroyan left much to be desired as a husband and father. The moral I took from the book was: Jew haters should not marry Jews. Carol Grace (Mrs. Saroyan) divorced/re-married/divorced Saroyan and later married Walter Matthau with whom she was happy for many years. The strange thing was that I probably would never have bought the book, Last Rites, but for the fact that I was browsing in a bookstore on Michigan avenue in Chicago and asked the clerk if he had the book and he did.
Saroyan wrote beautiful, hopeful yet tragic stories. I guess they might be termed bittersweet. But it was disillusioning to find out that he was a lousy human being.
Hopefully Dave's Mom actually used lard and not Crisco or butter - that would be really disillusioning !
BTW, that 25 cents for two pies inflates to:
I think it would be hard to find even one slice of day-old pie for $4.55 these days !
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
