Humble Pie: Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust
In America, pie is a food—and a concept—that carries unusual resonance. In Humble Pie, Anne Dimock offers a delightful combination of memoir, pie quotes, inspiration, recipes, travel writing, and assorted philosophical, cultural, and culinary musings on this powerful yet humble dessert.\ Anne Dimock grew up in a household where, she notes, "A dearth of good pie was a hardship I never encountered, never knew must be borne up by most folk." When she realized that the decline of the American pie...
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Garrison Keillor, best-selling author and host of A Prairie Home Companion: Anne Dimock is the Proust of pie and her remembrance of pies past is meant to inspire the pies to come. This is a lovely and elegant memoir. Ed Levine, author of Pizza: A Slice of Heaven and New York Eats (More), and frequent contributor to the New York Times Dining Section: [Anne Dimock's] passion is so contagious she even has me, who has never baked a pie, thinking about taking the pie-making plunge. Craig Wilson, USA Today: I have never met Anne Dimock, but I am in love with her .... I kept reading the pie-making treatise, thinking sooner or later that she would go off on some wacko tangent, forcing me to lay down the book and shake my head in dismay. She never does. She is pure. Sylvia Carter, Newsday: Dimock, who came from a line of Pie Queens, knows of what she speaks. She as good as takes you by the hand. (Craig Wilson) - USA Today I have never met Anne Dimock, but I am in love with her .... I kept reading the pie-making treatise, thinking sooner or later that she would go off on some wacko tangent, forcing me to lay down the book and shake my head in dismay. She never does. She is pure.
\ NewsdayDimock, who came from a line of Pie Queens, knows of what she speaks. She as good as takes you by the hand.\ —(Sylvia Carter)\ \ \ \ \ USA TodayI have never met Anne Dimock, but I am in love with her .... I kept reading the pie-making treatise, thinking sooner or later that she would go off on some wacko tangent, forcing me to lay down the book and shake my head in dismay. She never does. She is pure.\ —(Craig Wilson)\ \
