Epic eruptions, dramatic pies

[asakiyume]

Yesterday at the blog The Blue and Green House, they talked about the year without a summer--1816, the year following the massive eruption of Mt. Tambora. In my neck of the woods, snow fell as late as June and as early as August--across Europe there were famine conditions from failed crops. Wikipedia says that there was so much aerosolized material in the atmosphere that sunspots were visible to the naked eye.

Later in the day, out of the blue, wakanomori started telling me about one of the most powerful eruptions in recorded history, which he'd seen tweeted about. "Oh, maybe it was the eruption of Mt. Tambora," I said--fresh from my reading. He looked at me strangely and said, "Yeah, I think that's the one."

We both mused on why, in two separate venues, two separate people should have happened to talk about Mt. Tambora.

... And discovered that yesterday was the bicentennial of the eruption. Well then!

Meanwhile, on Twitter, people were tweeting humorous thoughts for new Hugo Award categories, and Nisi Shawl suggested, among other things, an award for Most Dramatic Pie.

So I decided to make a volcano pie--surely dramatic--to commemorate the bicentennial of Mt. Tambora's eruption. Behold the Pie:

Lots of red-lava chunks

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

That looks like a most delicious pie!

[gwynnega]

That is a Pie of Drama, all right!

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

The weirdly-colored sunsets must be something everyone remembered for the rest of their lives.

[sovay]

So I decided to make a volcano pie--surely dramatic--to commemorate the bicentennial of Mt. Tambora's eruption. Behold the Pie

teenybuffalo and ajodasso and I made cherries jubilee yesterday, full of red fruit and fire! We had no idea.

That is a most mountain-burning pie.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Is that actually a deliberate volcanic pie? If so, how did you do it? (I'm betting it went more or less volcanic by itself, and that you added Dramatic Fruit Lava. But I'm wrong quite lots.)

Because of William Pene du Bois's The Twenty-One Balloons, I thought for decades that the year without a summer was due to the explosion of Krakatoa, and when I looked it up several years ago was rather shocked to find Tambora instead....

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Most dramatic pie! great idea!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Lucky it was a dessert! It would be a hard act to follow... (Unless Mt Tamora Day is traditionally celebrated by volcano pie, followed by going to bed hungry...)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Pie! I want pie!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Eruption!

Nine

[readthisandweep.livejournal.com]

YUM? ;)

[c-maxx.livejournal.com]

Mmm... Red hot cherry pie, lava to die for! Jump in.

[wuweibaby.livejournal.com]

I would eat a volcano