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Piecast: Meat Pies, Cream Pies, and Tips for Pie Beginners
If you've never baked a pie, the winner of last year's Good Food Pie Contest gets you started. Plus, one of Michael Jackson's favorite desserts.
By Evan Kleiman • • 17m ListenWe're bringing back the piecast. In honor of Pie-A-Day season at Good Food and our upcoming contest in September, here's a special, bonus podcast all about pie.
Akasha Richmond of Akasha Restaurant in Culver City looks back at her years as Michael Jackson's personal chef. He really loved banana cream pie. Cream pies are also Roxana Jullapat's favorite. She also likes cream cheese crust, which she recommends as something "you would have to be really bad at" to mess up. Nicole Mournian, who won last year's Good Food Pie Contest, prefers an all-butter crust for pie beginners. And Bruce Aidells loves pastry dough with goat meat inside.
You'll find a pie recipe every day this summer on the Good Food blog. Click here to enter YOUR delicious pie (or pies) in the 5th Annual Good Food Pie Contest. It's happening Saturday, September 7 at LACMA.
Banner image: Judge Ilan Hall samples entries at the 2012 Good Food Pie Contest. Photo: Caught in the Moment
In this episode
4 storiesBaking Pie for Michael Jackson
Akasha Richmond runs Akasha Restaurant in Culver City, but before that she cooked for Michael Jackson at home and on the road. When Richmond baked banana cream pie in the evening, Jackson would take a small slice, but by the next morning, the whole pie would be gone.
Read the story3 minCream Cheese Pie Dough
Roxana Jullapat, pastry chef and co-owner of Cooks County , recommends that first-time pie bakers mix flour, butter and cream cheese for a very easy crust. Find Jullapat's recipe for cream cheese pie dough on the Good Food blog . Photo: Roxana Jullapat's Vintage Strawberry Pie, made with cream cheese dough.
Read the story5 minHow to Win a Pie Contest
Spend money at the farmers' market, go for an all-butter dough, and stop worrying about making your pie look pretty. The best pies are the ugliest, says Nicole Mournian, pastry chef at Gjelina and Gjelina Takeaway . Mournian won the 2012 Good Food Pie Contest, and this year she'll be a judge.
Read the story9 minPut Meat in Your Pastry Dough
Bruce Aidells is author of The Great Meat Cookbook . He loves all kinds of combinations of pastry and meat, but some of his favorites come from Jamaica and Eastern Europe.
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