gourmet

October 15th, 2009

image from gourmet.com

There really is no good reason to make this pie, but when I saw it on Gourmet's website a few weeks ago I really wanted to find a reason. Now that Gourmet is gone it seems some ridiculous pie making might be in order. Because along with the magazine and the website (though I assume epicurious.com will continue) all the web only recipes will disappear--mr. fatty fatty bacon pie being one of them.  My favorite part of this recipe--after the fact that practically every other ingredient is fat--is the little parenthetical after 1 cup peanut butter (not natural). It was obviously very late in the evening when someone decided to throw together a jar of Jif, some chocolate wafers and bacon dipped in sugar. Eating this pie seems like a good way to say goodbye and screw you! how the hell did you %!*&  everything up enough to make this great magazine get axed.

Posted in food/recipes.

8 Responses to gourmet

  1. Caroline says:
    October 16, 2009 at 9:21 am

    I'm guessing Gourmet got axed because Mr. Fatty Fatty CEO wouldn't be satisifed with a smaller slice of his money pie.

  2. Carly says:
    October 16, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Is it good pie? And why is bacon turning up in every dessert lately? I've seen bacon ice cream, bacon candy, bacon pancakes (okay - not technically dessert, but come on...). What is going on?

  3. h. says:
    October 17, 2009 at 11:24 am

    I think Caroline has it right. I don't think the people who make Gourmet did anything wrong... someone higher up wanted those resources to do something else. Having a slump in advertisers was enough to pull the plug? I mean really, a nearly 70 year old magazine, and a 6 month slump is enough to pull the plug? Cooking Karma is going to kick some muckety muck in the butt one of these days.

  4. Anne Marie says:
    October 17, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    I'd love to see your version of that pie. It sounds crazy. Plain crazy. I might have to make it one day :-)

  5. dana says:
    October 19, 2009 at 10:37 am

    AWESOME and hilarious.

  6. Holly says:
    October 19, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    Yes--how was the pie? Please give a review.

  7. AJ says:
    November 2, 2009 at 7:59 am

    This strange, morbid curiosity keeps pulling me back to this post to see if anyone's actually made it...

  8. Deborah says:
    November 5, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    We have a great little restaurant near us that just opened, and serves an appetizer called "Three Strips of Bacon in a Glass." And that's what it is. Served with a side of peanut butter to dip it in. Sounded so silly, but I thought it'd be gross. It freakin' rocks, yo. Love the look of this pie--like all that bacon, plus pie. Yummmm.