An ube blueberry pie wins PieFest 2026
Good Food
KCRW
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on Good Food:
- Jashmine Corpuz takes Best in Show at this year's PieFest with her ube blueberry pie.
- Trevor Warmedahl became a self-described "cheese trekker," living a pastoral life alongside animals and guiding the cheeses that come from their milk.
- Tami Parr chronicles the history and importance of goats in America.
- An obsessed mushroom hunter, chef Chad Hyatt is beloved by the mycological world for his culinary prowess.
- At the farmers market, artichokes are on offer.
Connect with Good Food host Evan Kleiman on Substack.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman, and this is good food. |
| 0:04.5 | Last weekend's pie fest and contest was so much fun. |
| 0:09.6 | Over 400 pies were entered, and thousands of people showed up to find out who would take home the blue ribbon for Best In Show. |
| 0:17.4 | And the winner was Jasmine Corpus |
| 0:21.8 | With the Ube Blueberry |
| 0:25.3 | Blueberry |
| 0:26.4 | Blueberry! |
| 0:28.6 | Blueberry! |
| 0:29.4 | Ube is really having its moment. |
| 0:31.3 | It really is. |
| 0:32.2 | When I say Ube, you say blueberry, |
| 0:34.6 | Ube! |
| 0:35.1 | Blueberry! |
| 0:35.7 | Ube! |
| 0:36.0 | Blueberry! |
| 0:38.0 | Can you tell we had a good time? |
| 0:40.8 | After the contest, I sit down with Jasmine Corpus, the cottage baker and first-time pie contest competitor, |
| 0:47.2 | who won Best in Show for her Ube Blueberry Pie. |
| 0:50.7 | And I told her that while some years there is a lot of argument about who wins the big |
| 0:55.9 | ribbon. This year, there was no debate. |
| 0:58.2 | Oh, wow. Was this the first time that you ever entered? This is my first time. |
| 1:06.2 | One of the reasons the judges really loved your pie was, of the ube can you describe what ube is and |
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