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Whoever coined the phrase "easy as pie" probably never had to cut 100 tiny digits out of crust. But hard work has paid off for Claudette, whose 100-Digit-Pie is the winner of the 2nd Annual Pi Day Pie Bakeoff! Congratulations, Claudette, you just won $314.16! And although rounding to the nearest cent pains us, the Treasury has not responded to our request to print up some π-dollar bills.
The winner.
Honorable mentions go to Aimee Schiwal, Stephanie Paterson, Brownie, and Joan Cook, whose Area 51 Pie, Blueberry Cherry Pi Pie, Pie R-squared (Raspberry Rhubarb) and same named pi(e) (a)r(e) square(d) were chosen as the Judges' Pick, Most Photogenic, and Best Concept Pies (in a tie). Congratulations, you all will be receiving Simple as 3.141592 t-shirts from mental_floss.
Judges' Pick Area 51 Pie by Aimee Schiwal.
Most Photogenic Blueberry Cherry Pi Pie by Stephanie Paterson.
Best Concept Pie R-squared (Raspberry Rhubarb) by Brownie.
Best Concept Pie-Tier pi(e) (a)r(e) square(d) by Joan Cook.
Many thanks to our our amazing co-host and co-sponsor Serious Eats, to everyone who submitted a pie (because they were all incredible), and to everyone who upheld democracy by voting for their favorite. Any day is a good day for baked goods and irrational numbers, but as we've shown, March 14 is something special.
Comments
Thank you so much to Serious Eats and Scienceblogs! I'll send the money to the Red Cross for the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. Thanks to everyone who voted for my pi pie - it was a lot of fun.
Posted by: claudette | March 19, 2010 5:39 PM