One hundred days of pie: No.46 The Half and Half Pie
What’s that you say? Yes a half and half pie! Not a half and half pizza, […]
FREE PIES!!! LIFE OF PIES BOOK LAUNCH!
Life of Pies book launch Friday Oct 24th @ The Raven Hotel
The above might be a […]
One hundred days of pie No.45 A New Zealand Gourmet steak and cheese
I imagine taking pies to Newcastle is a bit like taking coals to Newcastle but for […]
One hundred days of pie No.44 Jesse Smiths of Cirencester
Cirencester is one of those places that, no matter whether you live there or not, you […]
One hundred days of pie No.43 Mobberley Village Bakery
I seem to have gone overboard praising some of the better pies in the book the […]
One hundred days of pie No.42: Clarks of Bristol
Having introduced the original Clarks yesterday, it would be harsh not to give it’s English cousin […]
One hundred days of pie No.41 Clarks of Cardiff
It was chirpy Bristolian Ian Holloway who first opined that Clarks Pies were one of the […]
One hundred days of pie No.40 Dawsons Meat and Potato Pie
I feel duly obliged to do a piece on this one in my pie hall of […]
You might recall a few blogs back I mentioned the bad press that 
Guess what came yesterday?
Yes – It’s a pair of advance copies of Life of Pies sent by air freight!
As […]
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About The Author
This is the bit that I suppose I should have put in the book but to be perfectly honest I talk about myself and my escapades enough in that to indulge in any kind of […]
One hundred days of pie: No.38 A Glovers Butter Pie
Ah yes, the butter pie: talk about a pie which divides opinions.
I had one the other […]
One hundred days of pie – No.37 Yorkes Peppered Steak
Although I’m quite centrally located – indeed I’m based in the pie capital of the country […]
One hundred days of pie – No.36 Thomas of Malmesbury
From one Thomas to another….with the main consistency being that it’s an awkward bugger to spell and say. […]
One hundred days of pie No.35 Thomas the Bakers of Ulverston
I made several trips to marvellous Barrow during the course of the book, it turns out […]
One hundred days of pie No.34 The mystery of the Purbeck Smokie
Yesterday I revisited my trip to Corfe Castle to get a Bridport Gourmet Pie. That wasn’t […]
One hundred days of pie No.33 Bridport Gourmet Pie
As I’m a third of the way through this little appetiser now, I perhaps need to […]
One hundred days of pie No.32 Foodcraft Fish & Chips
What? Fish & Chips? Yes Fish & Chips!
If myself and my fellow cohorts from Wigan have […]
One hundred days of pie No.31 Greggs meat and potato pie
Every good book needs a pantomime villain and somehow Greggs seemed to inadvertently fit that bill. […]
One hundred days of pie No.31 Greggs meat and potato pie
Every good book needs a pantomime villain and somehow Greggs seemed to inadvertently fit that bill. […]
Two months to go….
It’s getting closer. It started with a pie, and a spreadsheet, nearly three years ago and […]
One hundred days of pie No.30: Meat and Potato Pie from Hollingworth Bakery
You may well have gone past Hollingworth Bakery. Indeed, I did several times without noticing it. […]
One hundred days of pie No.29: Percy Turner’s Growler
I recently wrote an article for excellent Barnsley fanzine West Stand […]
One hundred days of pie No.28: The Shropshire Fidget Pie
The first few weeks of “Life of Pies” were spent sneaking around the North West mainly […]