Pie: 300 Tried and True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie

Nation's Restaurant News, Dec 6, 2004 by Michael Schrader

PIE: 300 Tried and True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie, Ken Haedrich, 639 pages, Boston: The Harvard Common Press, $24.95.

Haedrich has written many cookbooks, including "Apple Pie Perfect."

This comprehensive guide shows how to make 300 different pies, with advice and tips especially for each kind of pie. Chapters cover summer fruit pies, fall pies, pies made with nuts, custard pies and icebox pies, and pies that are not baked. The tone here is a friendly one, and the author's enthusiasm for his subject is bound to spread to the reader.

There is something for every pie-lover's taste here. Such gems as "white" summer fruit pie, chocolate fruit pie and pine nut pie show just how good it gets.