What’s better than cooking a perfect meal? Doing it in style! At least that’s what Shabby Apple thinks. The company is better known for their normal woman’s apparel (dresses, accessories, jewelry), but has introduced a line of vintage-styled aprons.
The line, known as the Boysenberry Pie Apron Collection, includes seven different designs, all severely retro that are accompanied by the story of a city girl, trying to impress her new in-laws with kitchen skills yet unknown to her…
Story Excerpts from the creation of the Boysenberry Pie Apron Collection:
This was not a vacation; this was a test. I had prepped for weeks for this, the first encounter with the future in-laws and their extended family a whole gaggle of gracious ladies and hungry gentlemen from scattered points around flyover country as they descended on Sturgeon Bay for the Fourth of July. It was a longstanding family tradition of lounging, fishing, and eating obscene amounts of the women’s blue ribbon prize-winning home cooking, culminating in the family’s giant Independence Day feast, where the best of the best was on display for everyone’s viewing, and eating, pleasure.
I was assigned the pie. The test to see if the girl from the big city could be a proper wife and keep their loving son fed.(Apparently my vast knowledge of the best and cheapest places to eat out in New York didn’t count) The only small problem was I had never actually made a pie. So for weeks I practiced, watching YouTube videos of Julia Child or Martha Stewart…the sense of fear and dread welling up inside of me. But there on the counter was a little bundle tied up with string, my name handwritten on the outside of an envelope. I opened it. Someone wise once said, “Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.” I think the trick is to look good doing both thought these would help. Good Luck! Aunt Sue
I undid the bundle.Inside was a sweet, handmade vintage apron, and two index cards stapled together, with “TOP SECRET: 4th of July Boysenberry Pie” written at the top. I put on the apron, tying its rick-rack apron strings behind my back in a big bow, pulled the butter from the fridge, and took a deep breath.
A great gift idea for any style conscious kitchen enthusiast… Available at Shabby Apple.
-bryan
hehhehheh, I’d like to see anyone tie rick.-rack apron strings in a”big bow”.
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