American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads

"You know you're going on a quest for pie, but you may find something else entirely. Be prepared." These were the prophetic words uttered to journalist Pascale Le Draoulec as she began her cross-country journey along America's backroads. When offered a job in New York, she decided to drive rather than fly into her new life. As a food writer, she decided to turn an ordinary move into a culinary quest. She chose pie as her grail and guide, because, after all, what's more American than pie?

Crossing class and color lines, and spanning every state and variety of pie in the union (from Montana Huckleberry to Pennsylvania Shoo-Fly), the author discovered pie, real, homemade pie, has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill take-out world, our fast food nation, does pie still have a place? Le Draoulec's story, based on her adventure, will entertain readers as she seeks to answer this question. As she says herself, "I took the back roads across America looking for pie, and found an untouched slice of Americana."

About the Author:
Pascale Le Draoulec writes restaurant reviews for the Daily News. Her stories ran over the Gannett wire service and in USA Today. This is her first book. She lives in upstate New York.