Gather for Good co-founder Steph Chen’s earliest pie memories involve scraping the rich remnants of banana cream pie filling off her father’s plate once he’d had his fill. It was his favorite dessert order whenever the family went out to eat, “so I think banana cream will always be very special to me,” Chen said.
She has that in common with author and filmmaker Beth Howard, who once regaled a TEDx audience with the story of her parents’ half-century love affair beginning with a romantic supper of tuna casserole, Jell-O salad and a homemade banana cream pie. “I am living proof of pie’s seductive powers,” she tells her listeners.
