"Good cooks know that as one season passes into the next, the availability of fresh local produce inspires what ends up on the table. Consider the cozy comfort of cottage pie on a winter evening, the bright tang of a fresh salad on a hot summer day or the warm energy of hearty breakfast potatoes on a crisp fall morning --all resonate with seasonal food tastes. In this new cookbook, Secrets of the Pie Place Café : Recipes & Stories Through the Seasons, Kathy Rice delivers 70 of the restaurant's never-before-published recipes, ready for your home kitchen. Pie Place fans will be happy to see that some long-kept secrets are revealed. Radish Dill Soup, Maple Sausage Patties and Pie Place Breakfast Potatoes are just a few of the popular, tantalizing recipes found in this follow-up to the Pie Place Café Cookbook. Paired with the delightful food come fresh memories and fondly told tales of the local folks on this special Lake Superior Shore."--Amazon.com.

Bring along a story and grab a plateful of delicious at The Pie Place Café in Grand Marais, Minnesota, where a meal means more than a bite to eat. For nearly two decades, the family-owned restaurant has delivered fresh, satisfying dishes with a side of warm hospitality. In this book, you'll find precious treasures from their years of refining recipes and sharing stories, laughter and touching moments with their guests - regulars and drop-by visitors. Like the Café, this unique cookbook combines a refreshing take on recipes new and traditional along with the stories of customers who have become family. Open your heart and bring your appetite for their heartwarming tales and the scrumptious fare of The Pie Place Café. Book jacket.

Hearty, simple, plentiful meals made with wholesome ingredients have earned national acclaim for the Norske Nook in Osseo, Wisconsin. Now the restaurant's founder, Helen Myhre, shares the recipes and philosophy behind her remarkable success. Plain and unassuming, this dynamo of a cafe is popular not only with local visitors but also with tourists and celebrities across the country. For years cars from everywhere have lined Osseo's streets, but since Helen was featured on "NBC News" and appeared on "Late Night with David Letterman" to teach the host how to make a good pie, helicopters even land in the church parking lot bringing diners eager for honest home cooking and a glimpse of the real-life" Queen of Pies." Now, at last, this entrepreneur, who "never expected I'd own a restaurant," has given us a compilation of her simple, reliable, time-honored recipes. More than a cookbook, this charming collection teaches such intangibles as the "feel" of a tender crust, the "look" of quality ingredients. In her no-nonsense, friendly, slightly sassy style -- a voice schooled in a lost era when farm women gathered in neighbors' kitchens to cook for threshing crews or prepare a Ladies' Aid supper in honor of harvest -- Helen delivers the soul of good, country cooking. Included are breads made with Old World knowledge -- from kneading to "spanking"; soups both hearty and light -- and dumplings, of course; delicious, mouth-watering meats and thick, old-fashioned gravies; farm lunches and suppers; snacks and after-school treats; and pies, puddings, pickles and jellies, cookies, fry cakes...and so much more, including a selection of Scandinavian specialties. And included here is herreal recipe for the world-famous Sour Cream Raisin Pie that Helen even denied the New York Times.

THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can’t stop talking about. As the truth about her past slowly becomes clear, Anna Kate will need to decide if this lone blackbird will finally be able to take her broken wings and fly. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series! The kitchen clone recipe king is back with a new Top Secret Restaurant Recipes collection—the first since his bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes, which has sold over one million copies. Wilbur takes readers behind the scenes of big-name restaurants like Olive Garden, Applebee’s, and Outback Steakhouse, revealing the key ingredients and tricks of the trade they use to keep diners coming back for more. The book will feature 150 recipes, including: • Red Lobster® Cheddar Bay Biscuits • Cheesecake Factory® White Chocolate RaspberryTruffle® Cheesecake • Romano’s Macaroni Grill® Penne Rustica® • California Pizza Kitchen® Thai Crunch Salad • Original Pancake House® Apple Pancake • Chili’s® Southwestern Eggrolls • Houston’s® Chicago-Style Spinach Dip • Tony Roma’s® Baked Potato Soup Forget takeout—with these fun recipes and blueprints, all using ingredients you can buy at your local supermarket, you can re-create your favorite restaurant signature dishes right in your own kitchen.

'Calum is the pie king' Jamie Oliver 'If you want to know how to make a pie, Calum is your go-to man!' Tom Kerridge Discover the definitive pie bible from self-confessed pastry deviant, chef and London's King of Pies, Calum Franklin. Calum knows good pies and in his debut cookbook, The Pie Room, he presents a treasure trove of recipes for some of his favourite ever pastry dishes. Want to learn how to create the ultimate sausage roll? Ever wished to master the humble chicken and mushroom pie? In this collection of recipes discover the secrets to 80 delicious and achievable pies and sides, both sweet and savoury including hot pork pies, cheesy dauphinoise and caramelised onion pie, hot and sour curried cod pie, the ultimate beef Wellington and rhubarb and custard tarts. Alongside the recipes Calum guides you through the techniques and tools for perfecting your pastry. Within these pages you'll find details including how to properly line pie tins, or how to crimp your pastry and decorate your pies so they look like true show-stoppers. Say hello to your new foodie obsession and get ready to create your very own pie masterpiece. 'I'd happily spend eternity eating chef Calum Franklin's pies.' Grace Dent

#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars gobbling up meals at full-service restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular dishes served at these sit-down stand-bys. Wilbur's knock-offs, absolutely indiscernible from the originals, are selected from national and regional chains, many drawn from a list of the top ten full-service restaurant chains, including Houlihan's, Red Lobster, and Pizza Hut. Also included in this savory cookbook is a special section devoted to dishes from hot theme restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, and Dive! Recipes include: Applebee's Quesadillas; Denny's Moons Over My Hammy; Bennigan's Cookie Mountain Sundae; The Olive Garden Toscana Soup; The Cheesecake Factory Bruschetta; T.G.I.Friday's Nine-Layer Dip; Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza; Chi-Chi's Nachos Grande, and many more!