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FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
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Pie, like any good dish, unfolds like an event. For those who think anticipation is the sweetest form of
pleasure, the event starts the moment they see the pie warm and golden on its cooling rack, or hear the
word pie like a promise, or start salivating when they read those three letters on a diner menu.
Welcome to Kate Lebos Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour, and
Butter (Sasquatch Books; $24.95; September 2014)! Come in, tie on
an apron, and prepare for a thorough schooling in the delightful art
of all things pie. Roll call: all the usual suspects are here as well as
deliciously unique pies in chapters on rhubarb, blueberry, cherry,
peach, plum, blackberry, apple, preserved fruits, and chiffon.
Here youll nd no-nonsense techniques for creating that
perfect akey pie crust (Lebo has a best-in-show ribbon to prove it),
tricks for choosing the best fruit for swoon-worthy llings, and
much more. Bring people together with Black Cherry Chiffon Pie
with Chocolate Cookie Crust, Marionberry Pie with Hazlenut
Crumble, Cheddar-Crusted Apple Pie, or Whiskey Maple Pecan Pie and watch the slices disappear.
Besides baking dreamy pies of all varieties, Lebo is an award-winning poet, and colorful diction creeps
into her descriptions. Blueberries are like the note taker in the group project, recording louder fruits ights of
fancy and bringing them down to earth long enough to make something actually happen, so its not just pie in the
sky. Each bite of Peach Bourbon Pie is like a long talk on a summer porch, crackling with sugar, spinning with
alcohol. Photos by Rina Jordan are as luscious as Lebos writing.
Pie School is now ofcially in session. Dont be late to class!
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Pie School
Lessons in Fruit, Flour, and Butter
Kate Lebo
Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie
KATE LEBO

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About the Author
Kate Lebo is the author of A Commonplace Book of Pie
(Chin Music Press, 2013) and The Pie Lady's Manifesto,
a zine republished by The Rumpus in 2014. She founded
Pie School, her roaming pastry academy, after graduating
from the University of Washington's MFA program. Her
poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Gastronomica,
Willow Springs, and AGNI, among other journals, and she
teaches creative writing workshops nationally. For more,
visit KateLebo.com.
SASQUATCH BOOKS
1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101
206/467-4300 TOLL FREE 800/775-0817 FAX 206/467-4301
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Pie School
Lessons in Fruit, Flour, and Butter
Kate Lebo
Photography by Rina Jordan
September 2014 $24.95 240 pages Paperback
ISBN 978-1-57061-910-6
Available wherever ne books are sold.
Sasquatch Books 800/775-0817 www.sasquatchbooks.com
Praise for Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour, and Butter
"If actual school was as fun as Pie School, no one would ever play hooky. Kate Lebo has written
a wonderful book celebrating the craft of baking fruit pies. Pie School is equal parts sassy and
poetic, as sweet as a perfectly ripe peach with just the right balance of acerbicwit."
Becky Selengut, author of Good Fish
"Kate Lebo is the teacher we all wanted in school, her kitchen a classroom for lessons in life.
Sure, there's plenty of instruction here on the tasty metaphysics of fruit, our, and butter. But
good pie is so much moreit's imagination and art and love. Hooray for Kate Lebo and
Pie School."
Langdon Cook, author of The Mushroom Hunters
Abbreviating her in-person, face-to-face pie-making course for the benet of us all, Lebo is all
about the how-tos of the handmadeno food processors, no other kitchen machines, and
certainly no store-bought prepackaged ingredients. The writing itself is almost enough to seduce.
Who can resist, Youll know the lling is just right when you dont want to stop eating it and
Nectarines are peaches with a recessive gene for baldness? Her book is packed with common
sense as well as handy tidbits, many explained and photographed in step-by-step fashion at the
front of the book, ranging from how to make a piecrust by hand to how to make assembly-line
baked goods.
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1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101
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Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie
KATE LEBO

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Pie School Events with Kate Lebo
September 30th, 6-9 pm
Book launch party
Lauretta Jeans Pie, Portland, OR
October 5th, 10 am-2 pm
The Pantry at Delancey, Seattle, WA
Food Manifestos: Writing Workshop with Kate Lebo
October 16th, 6:30-8 pm
Book Larder, Seattle, WA
Pie crust demo, talk, and signing
October 21, 6:30-8 pm
Pages to Plate, Portland, OR
Pie crust demo, talk, and signing
October 23rd
LitCrawl Seattle
Reading
October 30th, 6 pm
Kitchen Collage, Des Moines, IA
Pie school class
November 1st, 11 am-3 pm
Omaha Food Conference, Omaha, NE
Talk
November 3rd, 9:30 am and 4 pm
Kitchen Collage, Des Moines, IA
Pie school class
November 4th, 7 pm
Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA
Book signing
November 15th, 12:30 pm and 2 pm
Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Talk, demo, and reading
Events subject to change. Please contact Haley Stocking at hstocking@sasquatchbooks.com for
up-to-date information.
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1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101
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