A Commonplace Book Of Pie
his slim volume is chock-full of poems, recipes and baking tips from Lebo as well as beautiful illustrations by Jessica Lynn Bonin. Shelf Awareness says that readers will be hard-pressed to know whether this book belongs in the kitchen for the recipes or on the coffee table for the illustrations and poems.
A Commonplace Book of Pie combines high art, pop culture, practical resource and fantasy zodiac to make a collection of facts — both real and imagined — about pie. It’s a poetry book that fits in the cookbook section, a cookbook that resists the demands of traditional recipes. One can read A Commonplace Book of Pie as a fanciful take on what your favorite dessert says about you, or one can read it as a manifesto of, as Heather McHugh describes it, “not so much the secret’s telling as the telling secret.” With full color illustrations by Jessica Lynn Bonin.
Kate Lebo’s writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Gastronomica and Poetry Northwest among other journals, and she’s currently at work on a cookbook, Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour and Butter, forthcoming from Sasquatch Books in fall 2014.
Kate has judged the Iowa State Fair Pie Contest, baked at the American Gothic House and won Best in Show at the first annual Cake vs. Pie Competition.
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