A tongue in cheek article found on the Culinate website, written by Caroline Cummins, 15 May 2007.
Who knew pie could get so emotional?
In On Death and Dying, her 1969 pop-psychology bestseller, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross outlined what later became known as the Five Stages of Grief. (They are not, so far as anyone has been able to determine, related to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.)
Everybody, Kübler-Ross theorized, goes through at least two of the five stages when dealing with a major life trauma, such as a divorce or serious illness. If you’ve just been given a terminal diagnosis, so the thinking goes, you will at some point experience the emotions associated with the stages.
Kübler-Ross did not, to my knowledge, outline which stages you are likely to go through when you have a serious kitchen trauma. No, no, not severed fingertips or oil fires. Just cooking, which, as most of us can attest, can sometimes feel like the Five Stages of Grief.
Making a pie can be murder.
Let’s give it a whirl, shall we?
