Pie Baking

Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter

Unlock the secret to baking the perfect crust, and everything else is easy as pie. Seattle literary and culinary darling Kate Lebo shares her recipes for fifty perfect pies. Included are apple (of course), five ways with rhubarb, lemon chiffon, several blueberry pie variations, galettes, and more. Learn the tricks to making enviable baked goods and gluten-free crust …

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The Lost Art of Pie Making Made Easy

The Lost Art of Pie Making shows you how to make a darn good pie in a jiffy. You’ll feel like you’re in your grandma’s kitchen, where she teaches you the secrets of her tender, flakey pie crust and shares recipes taken from handwritten 19th century cooking journals, recipes like Dutch Oven Apple Cherry, Vanilla Crumb, Fresh Raspberry, …

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Pie in the Sky Successful Baking at High Altitudes: 100 Cakes, Pies, Cookies, Breads, and Pastries Home-tested for Baking at Sea Level, 3,000, 5,000, 7,000, and 10,000 feet (and Anywhere in Between).

Do your cakes collapse, soufflés slump, cookies crumble, and fruit pies fail? For those living at high altitude, baking can be a challenge at best, or a total disaster. More than thirty-four of the fifty United States, plus many Canadian regions, have cities and towns at altitudes of more than 2,500 feet, yet there are hardly any cookbooks …

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Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life

Making pie can be as easy as pie, with recipes and lessons from a renowned teacher of the craft“I’ve been baking pies my entire life, but making them with Kate was a liberating experience. With a pioneer spirit, she throws the textbook out the window and comes up with absolutely perfect crust filled with fruit that actually sings …

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A Commonplace Book of Pie

Adorned in a charming beige cloth cover, this reissue of Kate Lebo’s whimsical love letter to poetry and pie-making features a new introduction by Lebo on commonplace books and six new illustrations by Jessica Bonin. This cliché-busting book explores facts—real and imagined—about pie with a practical punch.Kate Lebo is the author of Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour …

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Humble Pie: Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust

In America, pie is a food–and a concept–that carries unusual resonance. In Humble Pie, Anne Dimock offers a delightful combination of memoir, pie quotes, inspiration, recipes, travel writing, and assorted philosophical, cultural, and culinary musings on this powerful yet humble dessert.Anne Dimock grew up in a household where, she notes, “A dearth of good pie was a hardship …

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