(Belated) Happy Pi Approximation Day! 23 July 2009 12:16 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,cooking,dessert,events,geekery,pictures,seasonality,whoops , View CommentsI meant to post this yesterday, but then I got distracted, perhaps by the delicious desserts…
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Mathematically inclined readers probably already know about celebrating Pi Day on March 14 (ideally at 1:59 in the morning, for more decimal places). What a good excuse for pie, right? Pie for everyone! Yay! Somewhat lesser-known but no less delicious is Pi Approximation Day, July 22. You see, 22/7 = 3.14285… etc. So how does one celebrate the approximation of pi? T-Rex has one suggestion over at Dinosaur Comics, but I prefer to approximate the baked good with other baked goods that are not quite pie: cobblers, crisps, and tarts. Given my history of struggling mightily with pie crusts, 22/7 is my kind of holiday. So yesterday I hit the Union Square Greenmarket with fruit on my mind, and returned home with six beautiful peaches and about a pound and a half of blueberries. (Also a quart of buttermilk, in case I decided to go the “blueberry cobbler with biscuit-y topping” route.) Then I broke open my trusty copy of Baking Illustrated
