On Blogging about Pi Day

It’s Pi Day in 2025 and I’m here talking about it! Do you know how huge that is for me?? 13 freaking years on this site and I always looked forward to talking about pie on Pi Day! Yeah, yeah, I’ve taken plenty of years off. But that’s not the point, let’s stay positive here, people! 

I could get into the intricacies of the mathematics. I could put on my big boy glasses and school you nerds on an educational level. But you know what? I already did that! Numerous times! Well… At least one time. But still! 

I was never the best food blogger. I always posted things late for holidays. So while everyone would be posting about Christmas recipes in early November, I would still be talking about Halloween. It’s not my fault! I never prioritized things around here. I just liked having fun and got to things whenever I got to it. 

But when March 14 rolled around… I was ready for it! I made it a point to celebrate 3/14 with some sort of pie. There are… hundreds… of made up food holidays. National Cream Puff Day, National Bagel Day, National Popcorn Day, National Chocolate Cake Day. There’s even a National Oysters Rockefeller Day, which let’s be honest, is pretty crazy but 1000% guaranteed is not the craziest one that’s celebrated. 

Did you know those were all food holidays? Nuts, right? No, not pecans, macadamias, peanuts, or walnuts – which all have their own respective holidays, by the way. Well what if I told you all the days I just listed all take place in January. Just January! It is insanity out there! I’m starting to remember why I stopped food blogging. I just couldn’t hang with these people like that.

Anyway, there are so many national holidays associated with food. Why do I not make a big deal about National Gyro Day (which is September 1st, btw)? It’s because I feel pies on a deeper level. (that will probably be the funniest line I highlight on here). Don’t get me wrong, I hold a good gyro near and dear to my heart. And those greek style French fries that you know you could only find at a good gyro joint, pfft, fuhgettaboudit. Ok, I digress.

Look, as someone who followed numerology for a while and finds intrigue in the power of numbers, for something as substantial and constant as Pi is, I can’t help but gravitate towards it and celebrate it. Especially if I could do that with great food and sweets. This is why I’m a pie person more than a cake person. I mean, besides the obvious that pie is much more superior, but that’s an argument for another day. 

Right now, I want to highlight something Dorina Mitrea, Ph.D. brought up when she was interviewed by Kelly Craine. In an article posted by Baylor University back in 2023, Dorina talked all about the significance of Pi and what it is that makes it important.

So much left to explore in this world. So much left to discover and it seems it’s just sitting there beneath our noses. Yet, here we are… Doing whatever the hell it is we’re doing.

Anyway. Ahhhhhhh, I miss this! Talking about food in a way that gets you thinking. Most people these days are all about hitting a link and then timing themselves on how quickly they could find the “JUMP TO THE RECIPE” button. They feel like they won the day when they could avoid the “life story” whatever blogger is going on about. 

MF’ers. That life story is what everything is all about!

I missed that revolution, thankfully. I was blogging about food back when the world made sense. When people cared about what you had to say. When the recipe was the bonus and what you really followed someone for was because they were awesome and good people and you liked their vibe. But then at some point, people got really antsy. They got impatient. Eventually, they searched, found, and got what they came for and they didn’t care anything about what you had to say. 

Thanks a lot, fast paced social media. I’m looking at you TikTok and various reels.

Days like Pi Day were ones I always looked forward to because I loved talking about what made the day special. Yeah, yeah, pies are amazing and great and so much better than cake. But why? What made it so? Schooling you nerds and putting y’all on game was half the fun in blogging about anything. Looking back at how things were back then – because trust, I’ve been thinking about it a lot – and remembering how the internet turned on food bloggers as if Emperor Palpatine executed Order 66, man does it make me sad. 

Will we ever be able to get back to those times? Seems unlikely. But being back on this grind and still having the fun that I once had before? That little spark of flame is all that’s needed to start a blaze. Sometimes that spark is just enough to shed light in the dark and bring hope to my fellow food bloggers. 

Until then, find yourself a super easy pie recipe from a food blog. Take 8 minutes away from your doomscrolling, and give it a read with your undivided attention. If you liked it, go and comment, say hi, start a conversation. Then go and make the actual pie recipe! 

Trust me, you’ll feel different. 

And you’ll feel complete if only for a day. Not because you read it and commented and made that bloggers day. 

But because you had pie on Pi Day. 

Que Dios te bendiga

Los