Pi Day 2021!
As the official unofficial family holiday of our Chief Alien… and because PIE… we here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities want to celebrate by sharing a selection of cookbooks and food-related books from our collection, plus a vintage geometry book from 1951.
And, of course, PIE.
Happy eating and measuring!
– Stacey and Winston
jamie at home by Jamie Oliver and tawâw by Shane M. Chartrand, background page spread from The Best of Chef at Home by Michael Smith, and a saskatoon berry pie from Sunterra Market.
A School Geometry: Parts V and VI, by H. S. Hall and F. H. Stevens, in which pi plays a significant recurring role. Republished by Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin’s Street, London, 1951. First edition 1922.
Clockwise from the top left: The Joy of Cooking (1997 Edition) by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker; The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher; The Chef’s Library: Favorite Cookbooks from the World’s Great Kitchens by Jenny Linford; Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson; Young globetrotting Swedish female seeks guinea pig to taste her inventions by Viveka Sandklef; and Company’s Coming: Pies by Jean Paré. Center: blueberry pie from nowhere near as fancy a place as the Sunterra Market.