Hello, everyone! My name is Ally, and I’m an intern at the Office of Sustainability. I’m going to talk to you about pie.

You’re probably familiar with that well-beloved and long-lasting traditional holiday, National Pie Week—those seven days of July the United States has designated to the adoration and appreciation of pie. No? Well, the Office of Sustainability admittedly wasn’t either until quite recently, but we were quick to make up for lost time (and pie) by holding a pie potluck lunch celebration at grad assistant Ashlyn’s suggestion last Tuesday.

Last week we had much to celebrate! Besides pie in general, intern Aylette’s last day of summer session calculus (her very last class of her undergraduate college career, incidentally) had come to a very successful end last week, and I happened to be lucky enough to have my 22^nd birthday coincide with the day that all of my co-workers were bringing in pie to eat together at work.

I was in charge of documenting our culinary fantastic-ness, and because our pies look so very delicious, Ashlyn has granted me permission to substitute a potential last paragraph of this post with the following photographs. Ashlyn brought my favorite, a tomato pie made with local ingredients, and a cheesy, delicious quiche. Kaitland made an amazing fruit galette. Stefan made a beautiful blueberry pie complete with a lattice crust. I made a gluten-free chocolate pie with a cookie crust and Aylette also brought the dessert with both her incredible Jell-O raspberry and whipped cream pie and peanut butter and chocolate chip pie. Yum. You know what they say about community-building…it’s easier when you have delicious pie.