Full name: American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads

Author: Pascale Le Draoulec Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780060957322 0060957328

Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie -- real, homemade pie -- has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world -- our fast-food nation -- does pie still have a place?As she traveled across the United States in an old Volvo named Betty, Pascale Le Draoulec discovered how merely mentioning homemade pie to strangers made faces soften, shoulders relax, and memories come wafting back. Rambling from town to town with Le Draoulec, you'll meet the famous, and sometimes infamous, pie makers who share their stories and recipes, and find out how a quest for pie can lead to something else entirely. Similar books: A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain Eat My Globe by Simon Majumdar Two for the Road by Jane Stern Feasting on Asphalt by Alton Brown The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher Consuming Passions by Michael Lee West Talking with My Mouth Full by Bonny Wolf Poor Man's Feast by Elissa Altman It Must've Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten With Bold Knife and Fork by M. F. K. Fisher The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman Food Matters by Mark Bittman