That's right. Serious Eats is giving away two phenomenal pies of your choice. If you live in New York you can choose from the dazzling array of pies made by Two Little Red Hens, which includes Apple, Apple Crumb, Apple Cranberry, Sweet Potato-Pecan, Pumpkin, Chocolate-Pecan, Buttermilk Lemon Chess, Fall Medley, Out of towners will get their pies delivered to their doorstep from the Grand Traverse Pie Company. The pies are on us. All you have to do is tell me what pies would be included in your all-pie Thanksgiving meal and why. You can include savory pies like chicken and turkey pot pie, even fancy-pants savory pies like the lobster pot pie they serve at Mary's Fish Camp, and...
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What's the best piece of pie you've ever eaten? Karen Barker, pastry chef and co-owner of the Magnolia Grill, 1002 Ninth Street, 919-286-3609, Durham, NC), makes the best pies I've ever eaten. Karen made all the pies for a pie breakfast at a Barbecue Conference I went to a few years ago In Oxford, Mississippi, and I'm afraid I singlehandedly decimated her supply of pies. She wrote a terrific cookbook a few years ago, and tomorrow or the next day I will put her pie recipe up on Ed Levine Eats. In New York, as I mentioned yesterday, my two favorite pie bakers are Two Little Red Hens (1112 8th Ave. (11th St.), Park Slope, 718-499-8108, 1652 2nd Ave....
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Four days of eating on Martha's Vineyard and what did I discover: The best local soda I've ever tasted: Cape Cod Diet Cranberry Ginger Ale: Simultaneously sweet and tart, plenty of cranberry flavor, could go a little heavier on the ginger. I know about Cheerwine and the like, but are there other great local sodas most people don't know about? A very fine Little Rock Farms blueberry pie made with wild Maine blueberries. An excellent Mrs. Blake's Strawberry Rhubarb Pie with her usual moist and flaky crust and filling that could have been less sweet. Fried clams from John's Fish Market in Vineyard Haven that were crunchy, clammy, and yummy. Wispy, thin onion rings that were battered to order (as...
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After almost thirty years of unquestioned allegiance to Mrs. Blake on Martha's Vineyard, my pie fidelity is being sorely tested by a pie baker I had previously written off. Another Vineyard pie purveyor, Little Rock Farms, is making some mighty fine pie, although it's nothing like a Mrs. Blake pie. LRF pies have an almost dainty, squiggly lattice crust that is remarkably flaky given how little crust there actually is on each pie. This minimalist crust showcases the just firm enough fruit in a LRF pie. We had a peach raspberry pie last night composed of peach slices that had not disintegrated into pie goo and still intact raspberries. Given the season I'm sure LRF uses quick frozen fruit in...
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Having come to Martha's Vineyard for the last 28 years I can tell you that it is not a place you come to eat in great restaurants. I always advise my friends who vacation here to buy some fresh fish at Larsen's, Poole's, The Net Result, or John's Fish Market, some freshly picked lettuce and corn at a farmer's market, and a few vine-ripened tomatoes, and then you'll eat like a king or queen at the house you've rented. But the island does have one amazing foodstuff you can't get anywhere else, Mrs. Blake's pies. Mrs. Blake's husband sells her pies in a little hut in front of their house on State Road a couple of hundred yards before you...
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