Jo Packham - Pieography: Where Pie Meets Biography-42 Fabulous Recipes Inspired by 39 Extraordinary Women

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If my life were a pie...

by

Jo Packham and The Publishers of Somerset Studio

Food Styling by: Anne Marie Klaske - Photography by: Traci Thorson

215 Historic 25th Street, Ogen Utah

2012 Jo Packham

First published in the United States of America in 2013 by

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Quayside Publishing Group

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makes one 8-inch 8-inch book, generously serves all

1 production manager, Brandy Shay

1/2 art director, Matt Shay

1 food stylist, Anne Marie Klaske

1 photographer, Traci Thorson

1 editor, Lisa Groen

1 assistant editor, Patricia Nicolescu

1/4 assistant editor, Sasha Troop

Combine all ingredients. Gently toss together. Let sit at least 1 hour or up to 99 days, depending on deadlines.

WARNING:

Baking in any type of canning jar is not recommend by the manufacturers and is done so at your own risk. Canning jars are designed to withstand hot water sterilization temperatures but run the risk of cracking when placed in a hot dry oven. (refer to Pie on )

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Everyone has a story to tell and even though we hear them and tell them every day we do not often think about them in a composition other than just that ... a story with words and maybe images on a page. But what if it were more?

Pieography is a new design for storytelling. It is all about using ingredients to tell the story of someones life and to share it not only in sight but in taste and smell.

Can you think of and tell the story of your life as a pie?

How do the ingredients that make the tale of your life combine to create a pie that is, in essence, the flavors and taste of your personal story? Is your life ... and your pie ... made simply with red apples grown in the neat, tended rows of a farmers orchard? Or, is your pieyour lifemore likely flavored with the essence of passion fruit, hinting at the exotic and the unknown? Yet still, it might be tinged with the au courant contradiction of salted caramel ice cream or its dark, rich sauce teeming with deep, complex flavors.

Pieography is not a book of memories of all that a much loved pie brings to mind because we each do have these remembered moments that are sweet or savory and filled with family and times not to be forgotten. No, this is something very different. Pieography is the biography of a womans life told through the ingredients that create a slicea tasteof her life in a pie. Savory, bitter, or richly appointed; simple and sweet, or messy and gooey, these pages tell her story through more than words.

Reading the stories on these pages of these women and then tasting their pies paints a picture for me that is as vivid as one that was created through the sonnets by Shakespeare and the prose by Oscar Wilde. They are real, they are emotional, and they are strong in ways other than the traditional, expected sight and sound. For the first time you can actually taste and smell the story that someone has to tell.

My mom told me a million stories of her life growing up. I didnt think about it at the time, but the pages of her story were written with the ingredients of her much loved and often made banana cream pie. Its crust was plain, yet the foundation of her life. She grew up with only a few basics of what was considered essential yet it made her stronger and uncomplicated. The rich creamy center was what she created for herself through her painting and her sewing to add flavor, and color, and a softer richness to a stark reality. And the bananas were her exotic fruit that, even though grown in far off places that most of us only dream of, they have become so mainstream that even they are considered every day. The bananas were representative of her sewing of an ordinary wool skirt that could be worn to school or to work yet originated in her imagination with no pattern and from fabric that was once drapes that were no longer adequate to cover the living room windows or the wool blanket that had been discarded because of stains from careless use.

My mom and her life will never be forgotten, nor will her favored banana cream pie. In making her pie I celebrate her spirit, her style, her story, her life.

Much love always, Jo

Jo Packham, creator and Editor-in-Chief of Where Women Cook, has been a leading innovator in the handmade publishing market for more than 30 years. Her publishing company, WWC Press, is an imprint of Sterling Publishing. WWC Press also partners with Stampington & Company to produce the bestselling magazines Where Women CookThe Heart & Soul of Cooking, Where Women CreateInspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women, and her newest publication, Where Women Create BUSINESSThe Dream, The Reality, The Money, and The Success.

Jo has personally authored the bestselling titles: Where Women Create, Where Women Create: Book of Inspiration, Where Women Create: Book of Organization, Where Women Cook: CELEBRATE!, and Pieography: The Story of Your Life in a Pie.

Her publishing company, Chapelle Ltd., has packaged more than 1,000 titles for most major publishers in the industry including: Oxmoor House, Meredith Corporation (Better Homes & Gardens), Rodale Press, and others.