Today is Pi Day. (Today also is Einstein’s birthday, if you have forgotten.) So, of course, there was no question what type of recipe should be featured on Blue Cayenne. Pie. Make that a delicious peach pie.
If you’ve forgotten your math, Pi is ∏, the sixteenth letter in the Greek alphabet and a symbol used in mathematics to represent the numerical value of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter–3.14159 to start with but the number is irrational and has an infinite number of digits.
If you don’t know today is Pi Day, you haven’t been paying attention. Today is Pi Day’s 30th anniversary. All sorts of stuff happens on Pi Day. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology releases its admissions decisions on Pi Day at precisely 9.26, for example. NASA is running a “Pi in the Sky” math challenge. Princeton is hosting its annual Pi Day celebration with pie eating (and throwing) contests and an Albert Einstein look-alike contest. Around the world, some Pi fanatics began their celebration of Pi Day 2018 at 1.59 pm. and 26 seconds on March 14. (3.1415926.) Merchants, anxious to cash in on the day, often offer pizzas or real pies at $3.14 discounts. (Whole Foods is advertising a $3.14 discount this year.) Google is running this special Pi Day graphic today.
Pi also has insinuated itself into our cultural references. Pi was the secret code in Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain. The Springfield graveyard sign on the Simpsons beckoned: “Come for the funeral, stay for the ∏.” Givenchy has a cologne called Pi that it markets as highlighting the sexual appeal of intelligent and visionary men. (Personally, I plan to start hanging out by the men’s cologne section at Nordstrom’s. Who couldn’t use a little help in identifying smart men?)
So, bottom line, you need to eat pie today (and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow—Pie is an irrational dessert, after all.)
Here is a recipe for a wonderful peach pie and you don’t have to be a genius to make it. The original recipe ran in the New York Times. Here is the link: Sam Sifton’s Perfect Peach Pie.
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