My industrial engineer colleagues and I organized a Pi Day celebration at work today. (Nerd alert! There is a brief discussion of math, and the pie is after that.) Pi is the ratio of a circle’s diameter to the circumference, or 3.14159. The calculations of Pi go as far back as ancient Egyptian papyrus, and a calculation is even found in the Old Testament! In the description for the Sea (11,500 gallon water tank outside King Solomon’s Temple), 1 Kings 7:23-26 says that “He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.” That equates to Pi = 3. How cool is that?
Technically Pi Day is celebrated on 3/14 at 1:59 PM, but in this case that would fall on Saturday (and who would come in to work on a Saturday just for pie?). Thus, we’re celebrating it today and so far we’ve been amazed at how many people brought pie! We’ve got pumpkin, pecan, chocolate, cherry, apple, lemon, and peach to name a few. And I just heard over the cubicle wall that at least four more pies are on their way.
But wait a minute! I shouldn’t be eating PIE if I’m eating raw. Pies are filled with white sugar and white flour and are cooked! The aforementioned chocolate pie (pictured below) is one I made…and it is raw! It is called Raw Chocolate Pie, and it is made with avocado and cocoa. You wouldn’t know it by the taste; it is the creamiest, smoothest, most chocolatey chocolate mousse. A big thanks to Ryan for the nice Pi symbol on the top!
