
This weekend marks the fourth annual amateur pie-baking battle at Omnivore Books. The fun happens on August 11 at 3 p.m., and pie tasters are welcome too, for an entry fee of $5 — pie battlers enter for free and split the door take with owner Celia Sack. [SFoodie]
Meanwhile, Food & Wine devotes some feature space in the new issue to all things pie, and among America’s best pie places, they say, are our very own Mission Pie, Three Babes Bakeshop, and Sweetie Pies in Napa. [Food & Wine]