American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads; Pascale Le Draoulec.
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.
Hardcover with DJ. First edition, 2002.
Brand new. Book in excellent visual and technical condition.