Kate McDermott

Readers fell in love with Kate McDermott and her story-filled cookbook, Art of the Pie. In this new book, Pie Camp, McDermott takes her teaching to the next level. Here she's focused more on technique: how to decorate pastry with braided crusts, troubleshoot a custard that won't set, create beautiful layered pies, and perfectly thicken your fruit filling. Once you...

"A new baking bible." -Wall Street Journal "If there's such a thing as a pie guru, it's Kate McDermott." -Sunset Magazine Pie making should be simple and fun. Kate McDermott, who learned to make pie from her Iowa grandmother, has taught the time-honoured craft of pie-making to thousands of people. In Art of the Pie, she shares her secrets to...