Pie Lovers Unite! July 25, 2009

Slow Food Huron Valley announces our 3rd Annual Pie Lovers Unite! celebrating local, sustainable food and our food community at an old-fashioned hootenanny glorifying Great Michigan Pie.

Pies are a great example of how local, seasonal foods can signify welcome and community with unique regional qualities. The Pie Lovers Unite! event will honor pie-making traditions in Michigan by inviting people to bake, bring, share, and taste pies from around the area. Pie Lovers Unite! will bring together our pie-loving community with fun, pie-themed activities.

We want to put our region on the map as a place where people are working together to reinvigorate our local food system and celebrate our local food traditions. When the theme is PIE – it doesn't get much better. We're planning a “pie walk,” a local-pie contest with local prizes*, recipe swap, pie music, and of course PIE EATING - all with a focus on what's local, sustainable, and delicious!


Again this year - a Pie-ku contest. Bring your haiku with a pie theme or dream one up while you're in the presence of dozens of fabulous pies. Remember the haiku rule for syllables: 5-7-5. Here's an early entry:

Pie-ku from Judy:
Once upon a time
There was a pi-yi so prime
A piece for a dime