Pie Talk #4: Red Sauce

Good morning from Chinatown NYC! Yesterday at this time, New Yorkers woke up to a winter wonderland, which those of us upstate at the time tromped through, carrying big sticks

Nancy: What will you do if we see a bear? Matt: I don’t know, punch it in the dick?

“These big boys are quite amazing and unfussy (don’t over-mix them!)” posted a listener, Instagramming the beauties she made from a recent Pie Talk recipe

“The Great British Baking Show” is a fave, albeit you will be hitting pause to go to the kitchen and rustle up something sweet

Historic Village Diner, Red Hook, New York

Making the gravy…

Paloma Media bar art!

Caricature of 1973 Knicks done by my late stepfather David Levine

And speaking of David…

The Fifth Column on Substack

A flame tamer (whose actual name is apparently "a heat diffuser,” la di da) can be useful for getting rid of hot spots on a gas burner