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Piecast: Tweaking Your Baking, Flower Pastry

Getting bored in the kitchen? Try adding hibiscus petals or kudzu starch to your pie. Plus, desserts on Antarctica.

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By Evan Kleiman • Aug 29, 2013 • 13m Listen

This month on the piecast, learn about new ingredients you can add to your baking. Gluten-Free Girl Shauna James Ahern teaches us how to make a crust that's both flaky and gluten-free. Miche Bacher puts hibiscus petals in hers. Alex Brown and Evan George, otherwise known as vegetarian party boys 'The Hot Knives,' are using kudzu starch as a thickener. And Jason Anthony brings us a cautionary tale of complaining about your food.

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, and the deadline to sign up is September 1.

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