American Pie - Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads

Zusatztext "Le Draoulec explores America's relationship with pie with a journalist's instinct and curiosity." Informationen zum Autor Pascale Le Draoulec is the restaurant critic for the New York Daily News . Her stories ran over the Gannett wire service and in USA Today among other magazines and newspapers. She lives in New York City. This is her first book. Klappentext ?A rich, satisfying account of one woman's cross-country search for the age-old dessert.? ? Entertainment Weekly An engaging and quirky travelogue, cultural and personal excursion, and adventure-cookbook that brings back from the highways and back roads a homemade slice of America 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. Zusammenfassung “A rich, satisfying account of one woman’s cross-country search for the age-old dessert.” —  Entertainment Weekly An engaging and quirky travelogue, cultural and personal excursion, and adventure-cookbook that brings back from the highways and back roads a homemade slice of America 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. ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Pascale Le Draoulec
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9780060957322
• ISBN: 978-0-06-095732-2
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio; baking, Biography: general, Memoirs, Travel writing, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, The Americas, Comfort food and food nostalgia, National and regional cuisine, Cookery dishes and courses: desserts, Biography: historical, political and military, Travel guides: food and drink regions, TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, COOKING: Regional & Ethnic / American / General, COOKING: Comfort Food, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Culinary, COOKING: Courses & Dishes / Desserts, HISTORY: Study & Teaching, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), COOKING: History, Cookery / food and drink / food writing