I'm a CEO and a pastry chef.

Zoom Info is a website that, as far as I can tell, scours the internet for “business” information, creating a directory of sorts of key people in various organizations. Check this out:

http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=2481591

No idea where the Connecticut address came from or what phone number that is.

We learn something new about ourselves every day :wink:

It looks like Ralph Sweet’s address and probably his telephone number.

Ralph Sweet from the interview

And if you scroll at the way to the bottom if the interview, or god forbid, read that far, you will find –

Dale Wisely is the founder and former CEO of Chiff & Fipple: The Poststructural Tinwhistle Internet Experience, where he now serves as Pastry Chef.

Interesting site. Good for starting rumors.

Just checked on myself - not so bad at info gathering. Apparently the ITMS has no competitors. Good.

Kevin Krell

Okay Mr Dale sir. Here’s the eternal question: is it better to use shortening or butter in pie crusts?

And does the water HAVE to be ice water? or can it just be cold?

Lard, dangit. LARD.

If you’re not the gambling sort, ice water, then.

Oh. Sorry. You asked Dale.

Do not listen to this madness.
You may use a combination of vegetable shortening and butter, or (in order to be acceptable to the entire weird family,) use Earth Balance Shortening or Buttery Sticks. These have the advantage of not clogging you up with hydrogenated fats.


If you are as bad as I at crusts, you piece the top crust together and pretend you were making a lattice. If you have Jeff and Gabe in your family, always make 2 apple pies or you will be sorry.

Those apple peeling, coring, and slicing gizmos that you clamp onto the counter are the best. Get one.

Eww. Lard is gross, fat, unhealthy, tastes awful, and comes from dead pigs. What are its redeeming qualities?

Well ya don’t have to deal with a live pig…

But anyway, as far as the Zoom name search goes…
I found I had, at first glance, more overlapping interests with the people who shared my birth name as opposed to my married name.

Ha ha! I show up as whistling podiatrist and attorney! Dale, we gotta update my resume to include OR nurse…

That’s wierd. I’m on there. I thought I was an anonymous internet nobody! :astonished:

That tells me a lot.

…fat…

As are all lipids.

…unhealthy…

All things in moderation.

…tastes awful…

I assume this knowledge is from your pre-vegetarian days, and that whatever you sampled was stored unrefrigerated. They refine the stuff so that it’s pretty flavorless, you know. Been that way for donkey’s years.

…and comes from dead pigs.

And your point would be…?

What are its redeeming qualities?

More pie for me, if we’re sitting at the same table.

I’m a nobody…nothing at all came up for my name.

And much as I hate to admit it, the best pies I’ve ever made were made with lard and butter.

And yes, cowtime, the water must be ice cold. No using the stuff from the tap!!!

No, I’m really not a pastry chef, but I do play one in my kitchen

:wink:

Hey! But if I type in my maiden name, I’m the owner of…dare I say it???..a place called Azure Chocolat :astonished: I think I want my maiden name back now. Is it too late?

I hate to be the one to break it to you all, but, if water is ice cold, it is ice, not water.

Some frozen burritos which you buy at the store have lard in them, too. Maybe we can have dinner of burritos and pie. :stuck_out_tongue:

Wait, is the thing you wrap burritos in considered a pastry?

It’s never too late. You can go to the clerk at the courthouse and ask them. Usually you can just start using your old name and that’s legally recognized, as if you’d never started using the husband’s name in the first place. It varies depending on where you are, though…