Pie School is now in session! Since the first publication of
Pie School in 2014, Kate Lebo has inspired bakers everywhere with her witty and encouraging lessons on all things flaky and sweet. This completely revised and updated edition includes 20 brand-new pies--including two new chapters, one on savory meat or vegetable pies and one on "difficult" (lesser-known) fruit pies--plus updates to the originals (80 in total). Her proven process to achieve flakiness and structure, along with recipes for delicious, inspired fillings, will give home cooks all the skills they need to make the best pie of their lives. Beyond the bake, Lebo also invites us to ruminate on the social history, the meaning, and the place of pie in the pantheon of favorite foods.
Recipes include Brandied Apple and Cracked Cardamom Pie
White Peach and Raspberry Galette
Rosemary Rhubarb and Vanilla Chevre Galette
Winter Luxury Pumpkin Pie
Huckleberry Pie
Marionberry Pie with Hazelnut Crumble
Lamb, Pumpkin, and Quince Pie
Chicken Pot Pie
About the AuthorKATE LEBO is the author of the essay collection
The Book of Difficult Fruit, which won the Washington State Book Award. She is also co-editor with Samuel Ligon of
Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze. Her poems and essays have appeared in
Best American Essays,
Harper's Magazine, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Ecotone, The Inlander, and elsewhere. She lives and bakes in Spokane, Washington, where she is an apprenticed cheesemaker to Lora Lea Misterly of Quillisascut Farm.