My patriotic gesture today was to order a Bourbon Pecan pie from Three Babes Bakeshop.

[NBachers]

This being Pi day, I did my patriotic duty by ordering a Bourbon Pecan Pie from Three Babes Bakeshop, a local San Francisco women's pie baking collective.

An important part of pie is the crust. Most bakeries give you a pie with great filling, but then they present it in a "shortcut" crust, which makes the pie somehow . . . inauthentic. It's like they didn't want to put in the considerable effort needed to bake a pie with a real, genuine pie crust like real pies are supposed to have.

Not at Three Babes Bakeshop. They bake their pies with the kind of flaky brown crust that you expect when you eat a pie- just like back at home. Of course, they make their Key Lime Pie with the graham cracker crust, but that's the way it's done down in the Florida Keys. Believe me, I know- I've been there.

In the pie picture, you'll also notice a family heirloom, a genuine gleaming Cutco knife, from when my son was a professional Cutco salesman.

Support your local women's pie baking collective.

http://threebabesbakeshop.com/

[hedda_foil]

1. Oh wow...I'm SO jealous of that pie.

[NBachers]

2. I just had another slice. I can't help myself. "Sugar Pie honey - Can't help myself"

[csziggy]

3. Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch, I can't Help Myself - The Four Tops

When I make pecan pie, I like to chop up the pecans instead of using halves. It's easier to cut and you get a more even distribution of pecans in every bite!

[NBachers]

6. I've had it that way too, at that place in Atlanta over on Peachtree Street,

and it works out just the way you said.

[mnhtnbb]

4. $40 for a pie!!!

Wowza. Hope it was good!

[NBachers]

5. Yes, well, stretched out over a year- that's how long it's been since the last one- + I don't mind

contributing to ensure the success of the local women's pie baking collective. More power and profit to 'em!