Books

World Piece: A Pie Baker’s Global Quest for Peace, Love, and Understanding

“Part travelogue, part culinary adventure, part love story—and wholly delightful. You don’t need to be a baker, or even a pie lover, to enjoy this delicious book. Read it slowly, though, savoring the humanity found on each page.”
Eric Weiner, NYT bestselling author of The Socrates Express and The Geography of Bliss

For details go to my World Piece page.

Buy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, or find it at your local bookstore through IndieBound.


Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Pie

“One of the best non-cookbook food books of 2012”  — Serious Eats

“One of the best books of 2012” — San Francisco Book Review

“One unique, crazy-quilt, truly American tale of reinvention.” — Publishers Weekly

This is my highly acclaimed first book, about how pie helped me heal after the death of my husband. It has helped many others through their grief. And inspired even more to make pie!

Buy it from Amazon or Indiebound.

Read the Prologue.


Ms. American Pie

Ms. American Pie: Buttery Good Pie Recipes and Bold Tales from the American Gothic House is guaranteed to help you overcome your fear of making pie dough! Includes photos, essays, baking tips, and pie myths busted. 


Buy it on Amazon, Kindle, IndieBound.


Hausfrau Honeymoon

Hausfrau Honeymoon: Love, Language, and Other Misadventures in Germany is the prequel to Making Piece.

Buy it on Amazon or IndieBound.


The original hardcover edition of MAKING PIECE is still available.