If you're here, then you probably have made, or will soon be making, your guess for this year's contest and are wondering just what kind of mouth watering pie is in store for you if you win. No joke, if you win, you get a home baked pie from your's truly, AFL's resident pie baking goddess.
Here's the scoop on the pie flavors available to the winners.
If the winner lives in the NYC metro area, I am willing to arrange a drop off/pick up. In that case, the winner can select ANY flavor of pie that tickles their fancy.
For everyone else, I will ship a pie to them via FedEx or overnight mail.
No proxies! I will ship the winner a pie and they can do what they wish from that point. I will not ship to anyone other than the official winner.
Only a few pies will ship well. No cream, meringue, chiffon or gelatin pies will make it.
Here are a few examples of pies that will make the trip.......
Nut pies
Sweet Potato
Pumpkin
Cherry
Apple
Raisin
"Traci is a good friend and a fabulous pastry chef. I haven't once gotten sick from eating her pies. And she's such a bitch, too."
- Helen Read, AFLer of the Year
"I've tasted Traci's goods. In one word: delicious. In more words: hot,tasty, delectable, luscious, savory, succulent, flavorsome. It's all I've thought about since then. I just can't get my mind off her sweet, sweet..huh? PIES? What the hell are you talking about? I've never tasted her FOOD! Oh? um.. yeah.. pies! She's a good cook. Right. I knew what we were talking about."
-Chad Riden
Traci's cookies are the highlight of the holiday season - or, as I like to call it, "the dessert season." If her pies are half as good... well, let's just say that Miss Cleo, Kreskin and intuitive Debra Lynn are going to have a pretty damn merry Christmas.
-Kathie Freeman
"Traci's hot muffins can make Brad Hill cry out for mommy in Eastern Standard Time."
Kar/Kel
From her hands to God's mouth.... them's sure is good pies!! Little Debbie has nothing over Traci's Pies
-renee
Pie? I like pie.
-Ann
Even celebs have something to say about my pies.....
Ma Traci's Grill & Dry Dock
Every day's an "eating orgy" at this huge, "crowded", "noisy" waterfront shack where the bargain "protein binges" consist of grilled "meat, meat and more meat" consumed "until you say uncle" in a space resembling a "third-world abattoir". Bring your "hollow leg" and tackle the only 72 oz. Porterhouse on the Atlantic coast, touted as "government approved" and "good for your skin". "Dust off your concertina" and mingle with "crusty old salts" who swim ashore for homemade desserts that are "groin-grabbingly transcendent". Health inspectors rave: "you'll come for the pies, you'll stay for the table dancing" (or is it the other way around?).
Food 29; Decor 3; Service 26; Cost $5
Carl Zagat
By the time she entered the Indiana Institute of Icing and Related Bakery
Pursuits, Traci had mastered crusts and was introduced, for the first time,
to fillings. A whole new world opened before her, and Traci's early
experiments demonstrated blazing creativity, if an unusual sensibility in
combining ingredients. It was during this formative period that her Carrot
Seaweed Meringue gained notice in Midwestern Pie Biweekly.
Traci's first attempt to join filling and crust resulted in a cobbler-like
confection that she called "apple poo." Nobody liked it, and Traci plunged
into a prologed period of depression, oven fixation, fruit abuse, lack of
punctuality, odd clothing choices, and general perversion. Fortunately, she
pulled out of it.
Her pies are fine. Anyone who declines a piece is a doodie-head.
Alan Greenspan