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Pie House has been featured on Vogue's website again. Check it out!

No, still no watermelon pie. Sorry! But I have been eating a lot of watermelon lately. I usually lightly salt and pepper them before digging in. Then I spit out the seeds. According to the New York Times, this watermelon-seed spitting is increasingly rare behavior for Americans - only 20% of watermelons sold in the US have seeds. Over the past decade, the American market has been pushing watermelons to smaller, seedless, "personal" varieties.
Curious about watermelon diversity, I started looking for less common watermelon types. I dug up yellow-fleshed and orange-fleshed watermelons, but I think my favorites are two types of Japanese watermelons: square watermelons and black-rinded (Densuke) watermelons. The black ones better be delicious, because they're a little expensive - the average price is 1700 RMB, and the first one sold for over 51,000 RMB.
We're featured in the current issue of Agenda! Unfortunately, Agenda's website doesn't have the latest issue online yet, so pick up a physical copy and read our interview the next time you get the chance!
We try our best to keep Pie House products in tune with seasons - we had a wildly successful strawberry cheese pie during strawberry season. Now that it's cherry and apricot season, we've followed it up with a chocolate cherry cheese pie, cherry pie, and an apricot brandy custard pie.
But I was in Korea a few days ago and they have definitely one-upped us with their seasonal watermelon donuts. Having had a few people suggest I try making a watermelon pie before, and having turned them down in what seemed to be a display of wisdom, I couldn't resist trying one. If a food conglomerate capable of successfully bringing donuts all the way to Korea was telling me that watermelon is something that belonged in donuts, who was I to protest?
Our strawberry cheese pie was a huge hit and we received a ton of emails and phone calls asking where it went. Sadly, last week we stopped selling it because strawberry season is over - any strawberries that we could buy right now wouldn't be very tasty. We don't want to give you that - you deserve better.

Well, not quite. But close: According to this article in the New York Times, the average Chinese person consumes over a quarter of a ton of vegetables per year. This is more than 3 times what the average American eats per year. So for every side of broccoli you load up, you need to load up another two to eat like a Chinese. Actually, that shouldn't be very surprising to any of you expats who've ever eaten with natives who've complained that you haven't ordered enough 菜, but I did dig up some other interesting statistics in this chart.
Pie House was featured in Vogue China a few days ago! 派对需要对的派!
前几天晚上,Mark和我参加了名为"China Prom"的慈善拍卖舞会。在美国,Prom是所有高中都会举行的高年级学生参加的正式舞会。一群常驻北京的美国人选取这种重返校园的形式,在北京每年举办一次China Prom,既为娱乐,又加入了慈善和公益的元素。


I'm sorry I haven't updated the blog much lately - I've been busy making pies, meeting new people, and... hooking up some shopping cart software for this website. I'm happy to announce that pies are now even easier to buy than ever. If you're like me, you prefer to order things while glued to your computer instead of ordering over a phone. Filling out a few text forms with your keyboard can just be so much simpler than a phone order. So, if you're so inclined, to order online, just log in or register on our site (near the top right of the page), browse to the products you want, and add them to your cart. You'll be prompted for some delivery information - fill it out and you'll have a pie on your way! Isn't technology wonderful?