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Grandma’s Easter Pie Update

April
10

I hope you all caught Linda Lombroso’s excellent story last week about the pie competition the DiDonato family holds each Easter.

(Here’s a link in case you missed it.)

I promised an update on the winner, and the results just came back to us.

This, from Barbara Dallow, a granddaughter-in-law:

“Well, the competition was fiercer then usual at the home of Joanne and Anthony DiDonato to be the winner of the annual Easter Pie contest! Spurred on by the recognition bestowed upon the family by the write-up in the Journal News, the cooks outdid themselves this year. After the tastings were over and the palate-cleansing too (with some fine wine!), the judges declared the winners! Camille Hane and Ginger Marshall (Helen Di Donato’s daughters), and their families had made the best pie this year. 57 people were in attendance and 9 pies entered into the competition, so the victory was indeed sweet!
However, Christine Semenza already vows to win next year, saying, “I gave up the trophy to the best of the best…..but watch out next year�!
Another entrant claims to know where she went wrong in her cooking and can’t wait to try again.
To be sure, the musings of the losers, but in the end, we were all winners in that the whole family was together, celebrating a wonderful holiday and enjoying each other’s company.”
Congratulations to all the DiDonatos! You’re all winners in my book, too!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 4:57 pm by Liz Johnson.
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One Response to “Grandma’s Easter Pie Update”

  1. Julian DiDonato

    I’m so overjoyed reading this down here in Florida, this article was stumbled upon by my wife. I have absolutely craved Easter Pie the way my cousins and Aunts in New York have made for as long as I’ve been alive. They are a prize winning bunch for sure. Congrats!! to my New York family…

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