50 Pies, 50 States: An Immigrant's Love Letter to the United States Through Pie [Hardcover]

A love letter in pie crust to every statea delicious portrait of the country with more than 50 recipes for extraordinary pies that taste just like home.

Deliciously unique. Jessie Sheehan, author ofSnackable Bakes

There's nothing quite so American as a slice of pie. That's what Stacey Mei Yan Fong learned growing up in Singapore and Hong Kong, watching movies set in the United States and dreaming about taking a road trip from coast to coast, stopping at diners along the way. After college in Savannah and a decade as a fashion designer, Stacey turned her passion for home baking into an ode to her chosen home: honoring the people, places, and flavors that made her love this country with a pie for each state. 

Each pie is an impressive, whimsical tribute that encapsulates a state's unique flavors and honors its culture, including:

• South Dakota's Wild Rice Pudding Pie
• Illinois's Deep Dish Pumpkin Pie
• Kentucky'sDerby Piewith Blackberry Sauce
• MississippiMud Pie
• IdahosMashed Potato Piewith Hash Brown Crust and Scallop Potato Topping
• Georgia'sSweet Tea Peach Piewith Pecan Crumble
• North DakotasTater Tot Hot Dish Pie

And bonus pies to honor Staceys trajectory from Southeast Asia to her Brooklyn home, like:

• APandan Custard Piefor her birthplace of Singapore
• AKope Jahe Piein honor of her childhood in Indonesia
• AHoney Peach Piefor her time at the Savannah College of Art and Design
• And aBagel Order Pieto celebrate her forever New York City home

Every pie is an opportunity to celebrate (or defend) your home state, presented in a beautifully packaged cookbook that is everything we need more of right now (Cheryl Day, author ofCheryl Day's Treasury of Southern Baking). Bake your way through and you'll taste the fuló¥