This book is a small cute book. I haven't seen the book but saw an extensive preview. It takes two pages to print one recipe. No photos but it has line drawings and tips scattered throughout. The recipes appear to be good. It is broken into chapters titled:
PRIMAL PIES, UPTOWN TARTS, PIES FOR ONE, MEALS IN A PIE and INCREDIBLE CRUSTS PLUMP FILLINGS AND CRYSTAL GLAZES.
I think it would make a cute gift for a novice baker. In the introduction, the author extols the virtues of imperfect pies and that a rustic handmade pie is a thing of beauty in itself. Even accounting for a soupy filling, a crumbling crust, or a floating lattice top crust, a handmade pie is a glorious thing due to its rarity. Pies are under appreciated. They are simple perfection, a dessert to be coveted and the last slice hoarded for one's greedy inner child.
PRIMAL PIES, UPTOWN TARTS, PIES FOR ONE, MEALS IN A PIE and INCREDIBLE CRUSTS PLUMP FILLINGS AND CRYSTAL GLAZES.
I think it would make a cute gift for a novice baker. In the introduction, the author extols the virtues of imperfect pies and that a rustic handmade pie is a thing of beauty in itself. Even accounting for a soupy filling, a crumbling crust, or a floating lattice top crust, a handmade pie is a glorious thing due to its rarity. Pies are under appreciated. They are simple perfection, a dessert to be coveted and the last slice hoarded for one's greedy inner child.
