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Book Talk and Pie Demo with Author Kate Lebo, Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour, and Butter
Join us for a special event at Book Fare Cafe on the mezzanine level of Village Books as we welcome author and baker Kate Lebo for her new book, Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour, and Butter. Kate will discuss her techniques for creating delicious fruit-based pies, while also demonstrating how to make a pie at the cafe. A hot beverage will be served with a delicious pie sample.
Welcome to Kate Lebo's Pie School! 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 you'll find no-nonsense techniques for creating that perfect flaky pie crust (Lebo has a best-in-show ribbon to prove it), tricks for choosing the best fruit for swoon-worthy fillings, 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' flights of fancy and bringing them down to earth long enough to make something actually happen, so it's 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 Lebo's writing.
Kate Lebo is the author of A Commonplace Book of Pie 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.
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LocationBook Fare Cafe on the mezzanine of Village Books (View)
1200 11th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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