A Portable Slice of Pie
Sarah Warner was an avid home baker. If you follow her Instagram account, @sarahmakesit, it comes as no surprise she is now in the hand-pie-making business. When co-owners Michael Templeman and Johnny Duncan approached her about opening
Pie Fight, a pickup-window bakery, during the pandemic offering only hand pies, the ever-optimistic Warner said, Sure, why not?
How s business?
What kept you going over the past year?
For us, we grew very slowly; we did not have any grandiose ideas. Because we were just a walk-up window and because our product is fairly simple we just sell five flavors at a time so we decided we would go into this not with great expectations of opening this grand kitchen of selling hundreds of pies. We opened in a very tiny space, like the size of closet. We made it simple, and we grew as we went.
Our Italian family has made at least 1,000 doughnut runs. Weâre obsessed
Weâll cross state lines if thatâs what it takes to find the best honey dipped, double chocolate, jelly-filled and chocolate-frosted.
By Andrea CapodilupoUpdated February 12, 2021, 12:46 p.m.
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The writerâs cousins Zachary, Annie, and Nathan dig into their doughnuts in Danvers in 2000.From Andrea Capodilupo
After a dentist appointment recently, my newly minted chompers had a hankering to get fudged up. Goodbye fluoride, hello crullers, fritters, and doughnut holes. Perhaps it had to do with being up early and wanting to surprise my parents with something sweet, but family history hints at a more Pavlovian source. It was the Doughnut Run.