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A Cook's Notebook: Fraud Pie

From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Length: 02:28

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From: Ali Berlow

Default-piece-image-2 'A Cook's Notebook' airs weekly on WAMC PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST and can read something like: This is Ali Berlow, join me for A Cook's Notebook - refections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives... Fraud Pie aired on Nov. 9, 2005 on WCAI

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Piece Description

'A Cook's Notebook' airs weekly on WAMC PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST and can read something like: This is Ali Berlow, join me for A Cook's Notebook - refections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives... Fraud Pie aired on Nov. 9, 2005 on WCAI

Broadcast History

Fraud Pie aired on WCAI, WNAN and WZAI on Nov. 9, 2005

Transcript

She didn't want to come. The first few dates had been magic but then things changed and her gut instinct said that something was wrong. He used to be so charming but said that work was making him withdrawn. He'd been acting self-centered and worse - callous. But he said that he'd make it up to her with dinner and something special for dessert. And so - there they were with coq au vin and candlelight. She sat sipping her red wine; he played with the ice in his diet coke.

His voice was tight and stuck in his throat as he prattled on, nervous and off-key - saying something about how his mom baked cherry pie for him whenever he'd had a bad day and that a homemade pie could fix just about anything. 'Maybe that's true' she said, looking into his eyes. She pictured him in his kitchen - his fingers wringing flour and shortening together - pressing and rolling the ball of dough into a converg...
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