Bring along a story and grab a plateful of delicious at The Pie Place Café in Grand Marais, Minnesota, where a meal means more than a bite to eat. For nearly two decades, the family-owned restaurant has delivered fresh, satisfying dishes with a side of warm hospitality. In this book, you'll find precious treasures from their years of refining recipes and sharing stories, laughter and touching moments with their guests - regulars and drop-by visitors. Like the Café, this unique cookbook combines a refreshing take on recipes new and traditional along with the stories of customers who have become family. Open your heart and bring your appetite for their heartwarming tales and the scrumptious fare of The Pie Place Café. Book jacket.

"Good cooks know that as one season passes into the next, the availability of fresh local produce inspires what ends up on the table. Consider the cozy comfort of cottage pie on a winter evening, the bright tang of a fresh salad on a hot summer day or the warm energy of hearty breakfast potatoes on a crisp fall morning --all resonate with seasonal food tastes. In this new cookbook, Secrets of the Pie Place Café : Recipes & Stories Through the Seasons, Kathy Rice delivers 70 of the restaurant's never-before-published recipes, ready for your home kitchen. Pie Place fans will be happy to see that some long-kept secrets are revealed. Radish Dill Soup, Maple Sausage Patties and Pie Place Breakfast Potatoes are just a few of the popular, tantalizing recipes found in this follow-up to the Pie Place Café Cookbook. Paired with the delightful food come fresh memories and fondly told tales of the local folks on this special Lake Superior Shore."--Amazon.com.

In Pie for Everyone, New York’s beloved Petee’s Pie Company serves up more than 80 recipes for the best pies you can make at home. “Armed with its recipes, you’ll be able to make pie for vegans, gluten avoiders, lard fanciers, whole-grain purists and butter-crust traditionalists. The last group will be especially happy.” —New York Times Petra (Petee) Paredez shares her personal repertoire of impeccable baking techniques that have made her pie shops, Petee’s Pie Company and Petee’s Café, New York darlings. At the heart of it all, the goal is simple—a tender, flaky crust and perfectly balanced filling—and this cookbook leads the way with easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidance. Recipes include: Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Key Lime Meringue Pie Chicken Pot Pie Vegan Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Cream Pie A champion of locally sourced ingredients, Paredez features some of the best farms and producers in profiles throughout the book, inspiring us to seek out the very best ingredients for our pies wherever we may live. Filled with vibrant photography and recipes for just about every pie imaginable, from fruit and custard to cream and even savory, Pie for Everyone invites us to share in the magic and endless appeal of pie.

All of Seattle knows of Macrina’s irresistible artisan breads. Whether your tastes run to rustic potato; pear and cracked pepper; or crisp, crackly baguettes, you can find your favorite at grocery stores and gourmet shops throughout the region&—along with more than 100 restaurants in the Puget Sound region. Or let your nose guide you in the early morning hours through the heart of Seattle’s Belltown, where the smell of fresh yeasty loaves hot from the brick oven waft from Macrina Bakery & Café

From the proprietors of the renowned Brooklyn shop and cafe comes the ultimate pie-baking book for a new generation of bakers. Melissa and Emily Elsen, the twenty-something sisters who are proprietors of the wildly popular Brooklyn pie shop and cafe Four & Twenty Blackbirds, have put together a pie-baking book that's anything but humble. This stunning collection features more than 60 delectable pie recipes organized by season, with unique and mouthwatering creations such as Salted Caramel Apple, Green Chili Chocolate, Black Currant Lemon Chiffon, and Salty Honey. There is also a detailed and informative techniques section. Lavishly designed, Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book contains 90 full-color photographs by Gentl & Hyers, two of the most sought-after food photographers working today. With its new and creative recipes, this may not be you mother's cookbook, but it's sure to be one that every baker from novice to pro will turn to again and again.

A celebration of African American cooking with 109 recipes from the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Café Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right. Showcasing African American contributions to American cuisine, the café offers favorite dishes made with locally sourced ingredients, adding modern flavors and contemporary twists on classics. Now both readers and home cooks can partake of the café's bounty: drawing upon traditions of family and fellowship strengthened by shared meals, Sweet Home Café Cookbook celebrates African American cooking through recipes served by the café itself and dishes inspired by foods from African American culture. With 109 recipes, the sumptuous Sweet Home Café Cookbook takes readers on a deliciously unique journey. Presented here are the salads, sides, soups, snacks, sauces, main dishes, breads, and sweets that emerged in America as African, Caribbean, and European influences blended together. Featured recipes include Pea Tendril Salad, Fried Green Tomatoes, Hoppin' John, Sénégalaise Peanut Soup, Maryland Crab Cakes, Jamaican Grilled Jerk Chicken, Shrimp & Grits, Fried Chicken and Waffles, Pan Roasted Rainbow Trout, Hickory Smoked Pork Shoulder, Chow Chow, Banana Pudding, Chocolate Chess Pie, and many others. More than a collection of inviting recipes, this book illustrates the pivotal--and often overlooked--role that African Americans have played in creating and re-creating American foodways. Offering a deliciously new perspective on African American food and culinary culture, Sweet Home Café Cookbook is an absolute must-have.

As an early pioneer in the farm-to-fork movement, Chef Sonoskus has been creating delicious dishes at the Tupelo Honey Cafe in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, since it first opened in 2000. This cookbook collection of more than 125 innovative riffs on Southern favorites is illustrated with four-color photographs of the food, restaurant, locals, farmers' markets, and farms.

The Norske Nook's mile-high meringue and dairyland deliciousness attracts foodies, celebrities, and tourists from around the world to sample its glorious pies. This beautifully photographed cookbook features more than seventy pies, including thirty-six blue ribbon-winners at the annual National Pie Championships, plus Scandinavian specialties, cheesecakes, tortes, cookies, and muffins.

A collection of family recipes from the popular Staunton, Virginia, roadside caf‚ features 175 cherished, home-style recipes for such comfort foods as fried chicken, cherry pie, spoon bread, hot applesauce cake, pumpkin pecan pancakes, chicken and dumplings, and more from the heart of the Appalachians.

"We've spent a year combing through over 110 recipes, getting them tested by a team of home cooks, and writing never-before-in-print revelations about the stories behind the business. Want to know what it's like to start a garden on the roof? Wondering how we got our name? Ever considered how people react when you try to introduce edamame and vegan entrees at a diner? It's all here for the taking ... complete with recipe tips from owner, Tom Hanson ... [and] We've got profiles of local farmers" -- Back cover.