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2008 Apple Fest

 

5TH Annual AppleFest 2010

Celebrating Western PA's apples, apple growers and apple products. The best apples, the best cider and the best apple pies anywhere - no exceptions!

What:
Pie contest, Music, Apples to taste and buy. More!

When: Saturday, October 23
11am to 2pm.

Where: Union Project, Stanton and Negley Avenues, Highland Park

ADMISSION: Adults - $5, students and children 12 and under - $2

Admission covers tasting all apples, ciders, all entertainment.
ALSO FOR PURCHASE: apples, cider, slices of winning pie with ice cream, whole pies, pulled pork sandwiches, goat cheese in many flavors.

Bake a pie, win a prize, eat pie a la mode, have a pulled pork sandwich, meet the orchard men and women, buy apples, cider, a pie to take home and some Sam Byler's goat cheese (great with apples). Write a pie-ku, cheer the Double Dutch Rope Jumpers, meet your neighbor, sniff the fall air.

Pie Judges:
Chief Justices: Bill Fuller, Exec. Chef, Big Burrito Restaurant Group
Chris Rawson, Former Post-Gazette Theater Critic and writer about town
Kate Chenowyth, Pittsburgh Magazine
Miriam Manion, Grow Pittsburgh
Nancy Hanst, teacher/food writer, Post-Gazette, Table Magazine
Katy Werner, Phipps Conservatory
Greg Boulos and Jen Montgomery, co-owners of Blackberry Meadows organic farm, he, Western Pennsylvania Director of Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, she, manager of Blackberry Meadows
Donna Wolfe, pastry chef.

appleFest

THE SCHEDULE:
Pies entered into contest by 12 noon with $5 registration fee
Pie Judging 12-1:30
Slices of Pie a la mode: 1:00
Awards announced 1:30

Pie a la mode ("Oh Yeah" ice cream) at 1 pm

While you wait for your slice of pie:
Pittsburgh singer-songmaker: Brad Yoder and his not too loud but very fine funky little folk-rock-pop songs, accompanied on bass

"All in J.E.S.T." Mother&Son Juggling Team:
Kathy Doutt and Stephen,14, on the Chinese Yoyo.

Unitarian Folk Orchestra
with, we hope, the church's songbird minister

Pie Haiku
On the Spot Pie-Ku Contest
Write 17 syllables in 3 lines. Include a "season" word such as "crisp."
Best entries win a slice of pie a la mode.

Taste and buy goat cheese:
Sam Byler's Riverview Dairy in Emlenton, Pa.