I have to thank everyone for being so, so wonderful to me with regards to my national debut on the Food Network Amazing Pie Challenge.  Clearly, winning Best of Show was a real dream come true for me and especially sweet because I won with my beloved Tom Hundt’s Cheery Cherry Cherry Berry Pie who passed away right before the competition. He certainly believed in me.  What an incredible life experience it was and continues to be.  Thanks to all the fellow pie bakers and Food Network crew, Crisco, Sears and especially the American Pie Council for helping me realize my big dream.  Every time I see it, I get teary eyed, emotional, but mostly very, very grateful.  I now whole-heartedly believe that I truly do have the best pie in America!

I am immensely grateful for my wonderful family and friends, for all the sweet, hard-working folks at the shop and for all of my lovely customer/friends who believed in my dream of having the cutest, little bakery café in the whole, wide world.  And for all who believed that we had the best food and pie in the whole wide world.  

Most importantly, I am forever grateful for every single person in my life of 46 years who believed in me.

Thank you. 

I implore all of us to start believing in each other, for I am a true example of what a difference it can make in someone’s life. 

I implore all of us to start believing in ourselves.  Again, I am a real example of what a difference it can make in someone’s life –your own.

Believe and Eat Pie, Love Life –Linda xo