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Okay, so I get that Cinco de Mayo was a couple of weeks ago now… And, yes! - the day  we celebrate Mexican heritage and pride certainly would have been the perfect occasion to trot out this recipe and serve alongside your frosty Coronas and guacamole. But it’s not too late. The Preakness – the second [...]

The other day I was surfing around online while I should have been working, when I stumbled across a blog post – by a guy whose writing I admire – titled 33 Things You Don’t Know About Me. My curiosity got the better of me. So I took the bait and read all 33, which [...]

Okay, so you’ve got someone on your holiday gift list who loves to bake. (Maybe even you; that’s cool.) But you haven’t picked out the perfect gift, and time is getting short. What’s a shopper to do? Simple: choose one of these special deals from The Pie Academy and you’ll have it by the 21st. [...]

The good folks at The Old Farmer’s Almanac recently asked me to put together a video for them to introduce the world to my new book, THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC EVERYDAY BAKING. (You’ll find the video on their site, but I’m putting it here also.) I said yes, of course, not just because I’m a [...]

Here at The Pie Academy we use the latest in technology to maintain our databases, send you emails, and create and edit our videos and photography. At least, most of the time we use the latest technology. Sometimes we go old school and write your names on little pieces of paper, stuff them in a [...]

Please watch the video above, to learn more about these on-sale pie plates, before placing an order. So, here’s the deal: until they’re gone, I’m offering special below-outlet pricing on Le Creuset stoneware pie plates. I ‘m not sure why Le Creuset calls them 10″ pans when they’re closer to 11″ at the opening and [...]

As you saw in the video here, my new book – The Old Farmer’s Almanac Everyday Baking – is finally out and making the rounds. And now you can purchase copies directly from me here at The Pie Academy. I think the book is well named: the 118 recipes in the book are the accessible, [...]

When I’m not baking pies, I’m…well…baking other stuff. Including pies. I can’t help myself. I know some people think it’s strange that my BFF is my oven. And some ask me if I ever get tired hanging out in my kitchen hours and hours each day. The simple answer is: nope. I really don’t. So [...]

By virtue of good fortune and even better timing, I’ve been able to secure a modest supply of new Le Creuset stoneware pie dishes, pie birds, and tart dishes at very attractive prices. And yes, all quite legally: these things didn’t “fall off” the back of a truck in some dark alley. (It was actually [...]

(Author’s note: This is not the typical sort of post you can expect to find in the future here on The Pie Academy blog. Those posts will focus primarily on pie making, while this one – by way of introductions – is more about the pie maker, me, and how I got here. That being [...]