Peach Pies

You may have inferred this from the header image, but we’ll tell you anyway…

We tried replicating the peach atom, one of the happiest of atoms, in the image above, until someone told us there is no such atom. Dream ruiner.

As we do every August when Colorado peaches are at their Coloradoiest, we're making peach pies. (We're also making peach hand pies for next week's Burger Night.)

PEACHY FACT #1: Like the apricot and the plum, the peach is a drupe (a.k.a., a fruit with a large amount of flesh surrounding a hard pit). Drupes are also card-carrying members of Rosaceae, the rose family. (Never call a peach a drupe, at least not to its face.)

Peach pies, and the resulting happiness they engender, are among our proudest achievements of the year, and we're making them to order. Just use the buttons at the bottom to order yours online.

PEACHY FACT #2: Scientists have discovered peach endocarps (fossilized pits) dating back 2.5 million years — preceding humans — in the region of Kunming, China.

Behind the scenes of "order yours online" is our bakery — they make the crusts from scratch, they slice the peaches by hand, they do it all by hand. (And when we say "peaches" we mean Palisade Peaches — luscious Colorado jewels that emerge every August and flabbergast us all.) You can spend all the time you’d like making a peach pie yourself — getting peaches, peeling peaches, slicing peaches, making the crust, mixing the filling, cooking the filling, assembling it all — if you’d like to, and we’ll raise a Fuzzy Navel to cheer you on. But what the heck: Ours are 100% homemade, and we've done all the work for you.

PEACHY FACT #3: Throughout history, the peach has been thought of loftily, its blossom adorning the hair of brides in both China and Japan as a symbol of both virginity and fertility, a floral hat trick if you think about it.

Order from this very second through Monday, 8/21; we bake them on Thursday, 8/24; you pick up your pie(s) starting Friday, 8/25.