The Harvest Baker Update: Herb and Veggie Flowerpot Bread Did you know that you could bake bread in a flowerpot? Apparently a lot of cooks don’t, and maybe that’s why the Herb and Veggie Flowerpot Bread from The Harvest Baker is getting a lot of buzz online. Here’s the photo of the recipe from the book, and – if you’d like to see the actual recipe – here’s the link to an article that appeared online at a site called…

So you’ve got a big, sugared-and-spiced bowlful of berries at the ready. Your pie dough is rolled into a near perfect circle, waiting patiently on the counter, and you face the one last hurdle of getting it into your pan, in one piece, before your pie goes in the oven. How are you going to do it? If you’ve ever struggled with that question, I think you’re going to like this video. In fact, even if you haven’t struggled with…

Registration for this year’s Lowcountry Pie Getaway in beautiful Charleston, SC is officially open. We hope you will join us. This will be our fourth annual Getaway. In case you’re new to The Pie Academy and you’ve not seen the previous write ups, you can read about the last couple of them here and here. The Getaway is your chance to meet, mingle with and bake alongside other passionate pie makers from across the country. You’ll make plenty of new…

I hadn’t intended to, but I’m going to skip pie this week so we can pick up the conversation where we left off last week, a conversation that’s continued all week long with a flood of emails from you about my forthcoming website, The Good Cooks Academy. However, I hate to disappoint so if you did have a hankering for a pie, why not click the Table of Contents tab above and scroll down through our archives. It’s quite a…

For some time now an idea has been percolating up in my gray matter and now I’m ready, at last, to spill the beans and hear what you think. You already know that I love making pies and teaching others how to do it, and that’s not about to change any time soon. We’ll continue to grow and nurture The Pie Academy, add lots of new recipes and other content and, with a little luck, find a legion of new…

It’s a good thing the economy doesn’t rely on the likes of me for any sort of stimulus spending this time of year. If it did, there’d be no Black Friday or holiday spike in sales. Retailers would remain in the red. Our economy would sputter and quickly run out of steam. I haven’t done any Christmas shopping at a mall in years. Malls scare me. There’s too many people, and too many choices. You know the fellow you saw…