How to Make a Grape Pie and See The World Based on How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman By Elle, Sarah, Joey, Samantha, and Cole in Ms. Mottola’s Library Class.

Making a grape pie is really very easy. First, get all of the ingredients at the market. Mix them well, bake, and serve.

Unless of course, the market is closed.

In that case, go home and pack a suitcase. Take a helicopter to Indonesia. Find a farm and gather some wheat. An armful or two will do. The Javan Hawk is the national bird and is in danger of extinction.

Take a train to France and locate a chicken. Bring the chicken with you. There’s less chance of breaking the egg that way. The Eiffel Tower is 1063 feet high.

Take a horse and buggy to Hungary and make the acquaintance of a cow. Bring the whole cow with you for the freshest possible results. To wish someone a happy birthday you would have to pull the person’s earlobe while saying “happy birthday.”

Take a plane to Mexico. Walk to the nearest sugar plantation. Introduce yourself to everyone. Then, go into the field and cut some stalks of sugar. There are fewer than 120 million people in Mexico.

Better fly home. You don’t want the ingredients to spoil.

Wait a minute! Aren’t you forgetting something? What about the grapes? Have the pilot drop you off in Switzerland. All males between the ages of 20 and 42 are required to serve in the Swiss Army, which involves 3 weeks of training every year.

Get to the nearest grape vineyard. Pick a few grapes. Give one to the chicken, one to the cow, and eat one yourself. Hurry home, stopping at Jones Beach to pick up a jar of salty seawater.

Now all you have to do is mill the wheat into flour, evaporate the seawater from the salt, boil the sugar, persuade the chicken to lay an egg, milk the cow, churn the milk into butter, slice the grapes, mix the ingredients, and bake the pie. While the pie is cooling, invite some friends over to share it with you.

Remember that grape pie tastes delicious topped with vanilla ice cream, which you can get at the market. But if the market happens to be closed…

YOU CAN EAT IT PLAIN!

Our Sources Culturegrams Database France by Clare Boast Hungary by Kristin Van Cleaf Indonesia by Robin Lim Mexico by Thomas Streissguth Switzerland by Mike Graf