This week: Favorite pie cookbooks, best apple pie recipes, cookbook giveaways, and previews

Last month, we featured the best recipes for pie crust. As I was updating our EYB cookbook library with new 2020 titles, the myriad baking books (which made me giddy with anticipation) and ten specific books devoted to pie being published this year caught my attention. Pie baking has suddenly become baking’s It Girl.

I thought it was time to prepare a roundup of past, present, and future pie cookbooks. Accordingly, were you a pie baker, when pie baking wasn’t cool? shares EYB members’ favorite pie books, a look at past, current and future titles, and as many pies as you can shake a stick at. And, yes, we have many pie on a stick recipes in our library.

In the USA, apple pie reigns supreme. There are nearly 4,500 apple pie recipes indexed here at EYB and 1,500 online recipes. Pie baker, Ken Haedrich wrote a cookbook devoted to apple pie: Apple Pie Perfect: 100 Delicious and Decidedly Different Recipes for America’s Favorite Pie.

Bakers differ on which apples are best for baking, which thickening agents work best and other points of contention. Grace Elkus at the kitchn tested four well-loved recipes. After some research, the four pies that made the cut came from Gordon Ramsay caramelized apple pie, Grandma Ople’s 5-star apple pie, King Arthur’s Apple pie, and Smitten Kitchen’s Even more perfect apple pie (pictured above). For the testing particulars, see Elkus’ post where you will learn that Smitten Kitchen’s pie made the highest marks.

What is your favorite apple pie recipe?

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Since our last roundup, Darcie has written articles that include a piece on the long history that politics and cooking have shared, the announcement of the prize-winning cookbook from the Art of Eating, the behaviors that drive chefs batty, a new show called ‘Dishing with Julia Child’ coming to PBS and the André Simon Food and Drink book award winners for 2019. Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday (#foodnews brings up these information-packed posts).

Our monthly newsletter was sent out on Wednesday – check your email inboxes. Remember you can always access current and past issues in our archive. The newsletter highlighted the February New Cookbook Review and a summary of February’s cooking options in our EYB Cookbook Clubs. Our featured author is Aran Goyoaga and Sweet Paul Magazine is the highlighted magazine this month.

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Recently Indexed Books

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• Mixtape Potluck: A Cookbook by Questlove, Ben Greenman, and Lauren Schaefer
• America’s Test Kitchen Twentieth Anniversary TV Show Cookbook: Best-Ever Recipes from the Most Successful Cooking Show on TV by America’s Test Kitchen
• Simple Fruit: Seasonal Recipes for Baking, Poaching, Sautéing, and Roasting by Laurie Pfalzer
• Baking Gold: How to Bake (Almost) Everything with 3 Doughs, 2 Batters, and 1 Magic Mix by Jami Curl
• See You on Sunday: A Cookbook for Family and Friends by Sam Sifton – enter our giveaway to win a copy of this book with one grand prize of a Smithey cast iron pan.
• The Irish Cookbook by JP McMahon. EYB members receive 30% off Phaidon titles when using the link provided.

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Member Photo of the Week

Balsamic peach and Brie tart with crispy prosciutto  from Half Baked Harvest Super Simple: More Than 125 Recipes for Instant, Overnight, Meal-Prepped, and Easy Comfort Foods by Tieghan Gerard submitted by member raybun

This book is one of our cookbooks in the EYB Cookbook Club for March.

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Featured Online Recipe

Our best shepherd’s pie from Food52

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 621st EYBDigital Preview and shared some insight into members’ questions. A selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: For an explanation of why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

• 3 recipes from Showstopping BBQ with Your Traeger Grill: Standout Recipes for Your Wood Pellet Cooker from an Award-Winning Pitmaster by Ed Randolph Pub date 4/7/2020
• 3 recipes from Fast & Flavorful Paleo Cooking: 80+ Easy, Delicious Recipes for the Weeknight Chef by Amanda Torress Pub date 3/31/2020
• 2 recipes and a selection of narrative and images from Ana Ros: Sun and Rain by Ana Roš EYB members receive 30% off Phaidon titles when using the link provided. Pub date 3/25/2020
• 3 recipes and the introduction from A Feast of Serendib by Mary Anne Mohanraj Pub date 3/6/2020

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Cookbook Giveaways
Click on the Blue Link Below to Enter

 

Please note that you must be logged into the Rafflecopter contest before entering. For more information on this process, please see our step-by-step help post and this forum post.

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• Enter our US/UK giveaway to win a copy of Gennaro’s Pasta Perfecto!: The Essential Collection of Fresh and Dried Pasta Dishes by Gennaro Contaldo Expires March 23rd, 2020.
• Enter our giveaway (open to US/UK/AU/NZ) to win a copy of Sour: More Than Mere Taste: The Magical Element That Transforms Your Cooking by Mark Diacono. Expires March 28th, 2020.’
• Enter our giveaway open to US/CA to win a copy of Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin from the publisher. EYB is providing one copy outside US/CA worldwide. Expires March 29, 2020

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Be sure to enter all our current giveaways!

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