Recipe for Pi Day

Posted by Kevin Houston on Mar 9, 2012 in Fun mathematics, Popularization of maths | 0 comments

International Pi Day is approaching (14th March) and the world is looking for exciting recipes for pies to celebrate such an important date in the calendar. Well, here’s a great idea. They are called “Tau-nados”. In order to get the pun one has to pronounce tau in the English way (“tor”) rather than the American way (sounds like cow). The idea is that you get two pies in one – hence the tau from 2 pi. And not only that the pies are twisted to form a double helix!

See the website http://www.instructables.com/id/Tau-nados/ for the recipe. Here’s a taster of what they look like:

Hmmm! Two pi

Thanks to Joseph Lindenberg for bringing this to my attention.

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