Penelope Pies

Out for dinner at a favorite restaurant in Gloucester, Mass., Ellen Dunn (Heads, You Win!) heard her waitress Ann Marie cheerfully telling friends at the next table, “Can’t come to the party, I’m doing pies all weekend.”
Naturally Ellen had to ask about any pie event. It turned out that Ann Marie had another life […]

Banana cream filling takes practice. There’s a point in the milk simmering, sugar-flour-salt-adding part of the recipe where the mixture can turn into banana cream filling, cream of wheat, or a pancake. It’s like a stem cell.
Let’s just say rehearsal is everything. Penelope once read that Catherine Zeta-Jones had to make a pumpkin pie […]

Penelope’s best pie pal entertainment lawyer Ellen Dunn (Heads You Win) was sent to London to visit the set of a soon to be released major motion picture starring a superhero whose name cannot yet be divulged, but who drives a very cool car.
After the big chase sequence, Ellen was having lunch with […]

Cynthia Kanitas from Indianapolis, Indiana mentioned to Penelope, “Something my mother once told me about making a fruit pie also turned out to be true of marriage. She said that, ‘If you feel things might be bubbling up on the inside, even though the outside doesn’t look like it’s about to burn, trust your instincts, […]