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

door Pascale Le Draoulec

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You know you're going on a quest for pie, but you may find something else entirely. Be prepared. These were the prophetic words uttered to Pascale Le Draoulec as she began her cross-country journey. When offered a job in New York, she chose to drive rather than fly into her new life. As a food writer, she decided to turn an ordinary move into a culinary quest. She chose pie as her grail and guide, because, after all, what's more American than pie? Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (from Montana Huckleberry to Pennsylvania Shoo-Fly), 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 a first-generation American raised by two quintessentially French parents, Le Draoulec knew much more about tartes than pies, but as she made her way across the United States, she discovered that mentioning homemade pie to anyone made faces soften, shoulders sigh, and memories come wafting back; that everyone she met had a fond memory of pie. Le Draoulec and Betty the Volvo (her trusty automotive sidekick) meandered from town to town, meeting the famous and sometimes infamous pie makers in each place, like the little old ladies of Wasta, South Dakota (pop. 70), who had been baking pies from scratch to serve, and sell, on Election Day. They found themselves going head to head with state officials when South Dakota outlawed the sale of food at elections. Le Draoulec's story, based on her adventure serialized in the Gannett newspapers, will entertain and move readers as she seeks to answer the question of the place of pie in today's world.… (meer)
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This was a treat! If you love pie. If you love "on the road" tales. If you love to laugh - this is a wonderful book. ( )
  BethOwl | Jan 24, 2024 |
A wonderful traveling adventure looking for the iconic American Pie makers! ( )
  mchwest | Feb 21, 2022 |
I wanted to really like this book, but it got tiresome after a while. The first part of the book is interesting, but then the pace sort of slows down once she gets to New York, and then goes back on the road. It may seem interesting, but also a bit ridiculous how the author often barges in uninvited into places in search of pie( she crashes a funeral, and she ends up with her off-and-on boyfriend eating Thanksgiving dinner with total strangers, for instance). I like books about road trips and the interesting stops you make along the way, but the author just could not keep the pace apparently. After a while it is more a catalog of "went here, then there, there was pie, no pie, let's barge in there" with no more development than that. Once she got done with the initial road trip, the book just dragged on and on (she probably could have ended it with the arrival in New York and a nice epilogue). I think some of the characters and people could have been developed a bit more. When she gets a sketch right, she gets it right, but a lot is glossed over too. The book does have some nice black and white photos. And recipes are included; some recipes are from people she met, but others come from vintage cookbooks or other sources to suit a scene or because she was unable to get a local recipe.

The book does give insight into a culture that seems to be vanishing. How many people do you know still make pie from scratch? There are not that many left unfortunately. But I wish the book would have been so much better given such a quintessentially American topic. ( )
  bloodravenlib | Aug 17, 2020 |
The author is a first generation American who had only tried pie once in her life before deciding to make it her mission while driving from the West Coast to NYC for a new job. With a series of friends tagging in for the ride and many known destinations to get to, she also makes it a rule to seek out recommendations along the way. Talking about pie is quite an ice-breaker with strangers.
This ended up being a series of long road trips to seek out regional specialties. Since the author had never tasted even basic pies before, like lemon meringue or cherry, it's a fun adventure to go along as she seeks out a pie maker who works with olalieberries or sweet potatoes or white bean custard. She meets bakers who are near one hundred and one who is still in elementary school. Nearly each chapter ends with one or two recipes from the people she meets. This is a relaxing read, but it definitely made me want pie. ( )
  mstrust | May 19, 2020 |
I keep having more thoughts about my Mom who made the best pie pastry I have ever had. Her recipe was simple:
Mix 4 heaping cups of flour and
1 teaspoon of salt. Cut in 1 lb. of shortening, leaving some pieces of shortening in the size of a pea. Add ice cubes to a measuring cup of water so the water is nice and cold. Do not add all the water at once. Keep mixing in small amounts of water until the dough sticks together but is not sticky. Then divide the dough into 4 pieces and start to roll out on a lightly floured surface.

My mom could make at least 7 pie crusts from this amount of dough and do it in no amount of time. Her crusts were thin but flaky and never tore. I watched her make pie dough any number of times but I still don't have the knack she had. Although it's no wonder she was good at it because she started making pies when she was eight years old to help out at threshing time.

She didn't go in for fancy pie fillings, usually making apple or pumpkin for our family. However, she did make one pie that people raved about, Sour Cream Raisin Pie. It's very simple. Pour a cup of raisins in a pie crust. Sprinkle a cup of brown sugar over that and then add a cup of sour cream. But the sour cream is not the commercial sour cream; rather you add some lemon juice to a cup of half and half cream and let it sit for a while. Then you cover the pie with a second crust and bake it for an hour. The result is almost a caramel pie with raisins studded throughout. I haven't had one of those for a long time.

My mom died in 2002 but before that she had Alzheimer's Disease for almost 8 years. When she stopped being able to make pie pastry, I knew the disease had a stranglehold on her. One of the few things I was able to get from her house before my brother sold all her belongings was two Pyrex pie pans. I don't make pies very often but when I do and I use those pans I feel like she is looking on approvingly. I don't think I'll make any of the recipes from the book just now as it is 35 deg. C. today (95 F.) but I'll copy some and maybe do something different for Thanksgiving this year.

I have now finished the book and I really enjoyed it. I too have had lots of mundane pie although I have never put it in the dumpster. I think Pascale is right about people being intimidated about making pie; I know I was but when my Mom became unable to make pie shells for me I had to attempt it myself. I loved all the stories about people who had a special feeling for pie. We really do need to take more time for doing special things like making pie, baking, handwriting letters etc. all the things that show people they are special enough for us to take the time. ( )
  gypsysmom | Aug 26, 2017 |
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You know you're going on a quest for pie, but you may find something else entirely. Be prepared. These were the prophetic words uttered to Pascale Le Draoulec as she began her cross-country journey. When offered a job in New York, she chose to drive rather than fly into her new life. As a food writer, she decided to turn an ordinary move into a culinary quest. She chose pie as her grail and guide, because, after all, what's more American than pie? Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (from Montana Huckleberry to Pennsylvania Shoo-Fly), 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 a first-generation American raised by two quintessentially French parents, Le Draoulec knew much more about tartes than pies, but as she made her way across the United States, she discovered that mentioning homemade pie to anyone made faces soften, shoulders sigh, and memories come wafting back; that everyone she met had a fond memory of pie. Le Draoulec and Betty the Volvo (her trusty automotive sidekick) meandered from town to town, meeting the famous and sometimes infamous pie makers in each place, like the little old ladies of Wasta, South Dakota (pop. 70), who had been baking pies from scratch to serve, and sell, on Election Day. They found themselves going head to head with state officials when South Dakota outlawed the sale of food at elections. Le Draoulec's story, based on her adventure serialized in the Gannett newspapers, will entertain and move readers as she seeks to answer the question of the place of pie in today's world.

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