Pie every day: recipes and slices of life

By Pat Willard

Book Overview

Thirty crust and 118 delicious ways to fill them in a cookbook as sweet and American as you know what (Atlanta Journal).Pat Willard got her introduction to pie baking at the Bar Ten restaurant in Ravenna, Ohio, where baking great pies every day was no big deal. Now, in this delightful cookbook, she shares her best recipes, plus step-by-step instructions that take the fear out of making crust -- as well as warm, witty stories and reflections on the great American pie tradition. From breakfast pies like Potato and Egg to fun pies like Banana Bundles to fancy pies like Empanadas to knock-'em-dead labors of love like Flaming Peach Pie, this down-to-earth collection of recipes is a sure cure for pie anxiety (New York Daily News)A calm and reassuring voice for the crust-challenged. -- Kansas City StarIn between recipes, Willard expounds, often amusingly, on the historical role and therapeutic value of pie-making. -- San Diego Union TribuneEasy-to-follow...will bring hours of pleasure for the entire family. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425164365
• ISBN13: 9780425164365
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Barrowed from library.. HAD to buy

I barrowed this book from the library..and I had to come buy it !and it's wonderfull.TON's of info on crust and pie filling making... funny little tips and stories to go along with the recipie.This is a cook book written with little peices of life in it.. you can sit on the couch and read this cookbook like a novel.And it has pies...and little snacks for every special event !Great read !

Anecdotes and good cooking

This book was worth it for the stories alone, but the recipies were an added plus. I would reccomend this to anyone new and unused to making a pie from scratch.

Vindicates my life-long belief in eating pies for breakfast!

Nobody believed me that eating pies for breakfast has historical support or was worthwhile for nutrition or just plain good eating. Pat Willard's book gives me written documentation that our ancestors ate pies in the morning and provides many new variations for morning pie. What goes better with coffee then pie? Now my friends don't challenge me as much about my morning breakfast choices. Read this book and eat its words. -- Eamon Zoltan

I have this book yet I don't.

I show this book to people who borrow it and I don't get it back to use it for days or weeks. I may need more than one copy or it may be that by keeping my pieing episodic I enjoy the recipies more. When I have it in the house it resides on the counter on top of the gathering clutter cause it always gets pulled out from under and put back on top.

Just call me "pie woman"!

I had given up on pie making. I saw this book and thought maybe I'd give it one more try. Now at our house it's literally "Pie Every Day"! Thanks to Pat Willard's wonderful book, I can turn out a beautifull, delicious pie at will. No muss, no fuss. If you lack confidence in this area of the "domestic arts", this book is your ticket to pie heaven.