Happy Pi Day, Everyone!
February 9th was National Pizza Day and March 14th is National Pie Day (3.14 = 3/14). I’m going to leave pizza pie out of this pie post since we already covered that, but FDL has a number of awesome items to help you get your pie fix on 3/14 whether or not you’re a cook.
- Regular pies. FDL has a number of cookbooks on baking your standard dessert pies. Whether you prefer fruit or cream or creme, we have you covered. A few of our selections include Teeny’s Tour of Pies by Teeny Lamothe, which breaks down pie making by season and also includes a handy primer at the beginning for the cooking tools you will most likely need. We also have United States of Pie by Adrienne Kane, which breaks down pie recipes by the region in which they originated, and has an entire section devoted to making the perfect crusts for a different variety of pies. Finally, we have Pies, Pies, and More Pies by Viola Goren, which organizes recipes by the content of the pie and verges into savory pie territory.
- Mini Pies by Christy Beaver and Morgan Greenseth. Whether you’re cooking for one or an entire party, individually sized pies are so stinking cute! This book has sections devoted to both crusts and toppings – just because a pie is small doesn’t mean you’re messing around.
- Vegan Pie in the Sky by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. For those of you with some dietary restrictions, this slim volume has 75 altered recipes for all of the pie you love to eat without any of the animals or animal by-products.
- If you’re looking for fiction, Joanne Fluke is the queen of dessert based murder mysteries. The first book in her bakery based series is Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, but book 4 features her first pie related crime – Lemon Meringue Pie Murder.
- If you’re looking for television, the short lived but super sweet show Pushing Daisies stars a pie maker who can bring people back from the dead with a touch.
- Sweeney Todd. Meat pies are delicious.
Post by Carey Gibbons, Reference Specialist
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