Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Enemy Pie by Derek Munson, ill. Tara Calahan King

Recently LeVar Burton suggested today’s picture book on an episode of The Sporkful (“Reheat: LeVar Burton Even Reads Recipes Dramatically“) and in spite of the fact that Kate was dead-on about the fact that we should have done this book for a Thanksgiving episode, we’re doing it, baby! Enemy Pie was a Reading Rainbow Book back in the day, but I admit that I never read it myself. We talk about How to Eat Fried Worms, how boomerangs were the drones of the 80s (and I will stand by that statement), and the joy of eating a pie small enough to fit between your eyebrows.

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Show Notes:

Fascinating haircut going on here. If you wanted to name this style, what would you call it?

We’ll say this much. If that really is lemoncello the dad is pouring into this pie, we’d gladly taste-test a slice ourselves.

Wowzah. Jeremy Ross? He may be part shark. 22 front teeth. “You don’t know how many are in the back!”

Imagine eating a pie that is small enough to fit between your eyeballs.

Folks, we did differ on this point. Would you honestly eat cherry pie with grape juice?! I say nay. Kate says yea. Who’s right?

You can read my Étienne Delessert tribute here.

Betsy Recommends: The opening of The Rabbit Hole! You can watch my behind-the-scenes TikTok video here.

Kate Recommends: Hello Again with Tig Notaro, now streaming on Prime.

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