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I’d like to take the opportunity to clear up an unfortunate misconception. Irish food. Let’s get into it.
Most people think Irish food is rather…blah. In fact, when I went over to Ireland a few years ago, I was warned by more than one person about how awful it would be. Those people had clearly never been to Ireland. Or, at least not outside of a pub in Dublin.
The most deliciously mathematical holiday is upon us.
Situated brilliantly between Thanksgiving and Fourth of July, the 14th of March – Pi Day – is a great day for celebrating things pie.
Though some may have you believe the holiday is meant to honor the numerical constant that makes geometry possible, we here at Foodseum think it’s a way to break up the doldrums of winter and smile on all things crusted.
When it comes to food, I don’t know about you, but I’ve always said that my grandma knows best. Her dishes are the stuff of legends: the ingredients identifiable and unmeasured, hand-written on now-yellowed paper (if written down at all) and filled with little secrets I can’t seem to figure out. Yet, the thing that makes this food extra special is the images and memories that it invokes: the pie that makes Thanksgiving, the soup that heals me when I’m sick, the smell of the peach upside-down cake that still manages to transport me back to the long summer nights of my childhood. Everything was cooked with love, and when I eat the pie or the soup or the cake, it’s almost as if I’m five all over again, running into her flour-covered apron for a hug.
