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Sister Pie: The Recipes and Stories of a Big-Hearted Bakery in Detroit [A Baking Book] Hardcover – Illustrated, October 2, 2018
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“Everything you want in a pie cookbook: careful directions, baker’s secret tips, inspired combinations, and a you-can-do-it attitude.”—Chicago Tribune
IACP AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE
At Sister Pie, Lisa Ludwinski and her band of sister bakers are helping make Detroit sweeter one slice at a time from a little corner pie shop in a former beauty salon on the city’s east side. The granddaughter of two Detroit natives, Ludwinski spends her days singing, dancing, and serving up a brand of pie love that has charmed critics and drawn the curious from far and wide. No one leaves without a slice—those who don’t have money in their pockets can simply cash in a prepaid slice from the “pie it forward” clothesline strung across the window. With 75 of her most-loved recipes for sweet and savory pies—such as Toasted Marshmallow-Butterscotch Pie and Sour Cherry-Bourbon Pie—and other bakeshop favorites, the Sister Pie cookbook pays homage to Motor City ingenuity and all-American spirit. Illustrated throughout with 75 drool-worthy photos and Ludwinski’s charming line illustrations, and infused with her plucky, punny style, bakers and bakery lovers won’t be able to resist this book.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLorena Jones Books
- Publication dateOctober 2, 2018
- Dimensions7.7 x 1.04 x 10.28 inches
- ISBN-100399579761
- ISBN-13978-0399579769
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“Spend five minutes with this book and you will want to befriend author Lisa Ludwinski. The book, like the Detroit bakery it’s named for, celebrates community spirit, a serious love of baking, and a playfulness (Ludwinski hosted a 24-hour dance party to raise funds to open the bakery). Pies are organized here by season and are anything but ho hum, with options like blueberry plum balsamic pie and cardamom squash tahini pie.”—Food & Wine
“Eater’s own national critic Bill Addison says Detroit’s Sister Pie is the best pie shop in the U.S. This fact would be reason enough to order Sister Pie’s first cookbook, a gorgeously photographed and honestly written account of one team’s dedication to flaky pie crust, seasonal fruit, and unique pie-adjacent pastries. But the recipes will also appeal to bakers looking for new inspiration.”—Eater
“Lisa Ludwinski, who honed her baking skills at Milk Bar and Four and Twenty Blackbirds in New York before opening her bakery in Detroit, has filled Sister Pie with 45 thrilling pie recipes, like blueberry-plum balsamic, toasted-marshmallow butterscotch and malted lime. For the anxious pie maker, she includes detailed instructions that are mercifully easy to follow. But it’s not all pies: Thirty recipes for equally adventurous baked goods (peanut butter-smoked paprika cookies, rhubarb blondies) round out this bursting-at-the-seams book.”—The New York Times
“This stunning cookbook showcases the work of Lisa Ludwinski, whose recipes are nothing less than heartfelt.”—Food Network
“We'd visit Detroit just to eat at this pie shop.”—Bon Appétit
“ I’ve often made the three-hour trip to Detroit just to bring back pies from Sister Pie. Lisa Ludwinski’s crust is magic. But Sister Pie isn’t just about the baked goods and pie (even though it’s the best pie I’ve ever had). It’s about the community of the kitchen, the neighborhood, and the incredible city of Detroit. Get the book, make the pie, and let Lisa’s story and optimism inspire you.”—Jeni Britton Bauer, cofounder of Jeni’s and author of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home
“This isn’t just a book of Sister Pie’s best recipes, it’s a testament to what happens when you build a business that has more than one bottom line. This is a book about a community and about how sustaining community can be so sweet (. . . and savory).”—Julia Turshen, author of Now & Again, Feed the Resistance, and Small Victories
“I’ve yet to find a more lovely place in Detroit than this kitchen full of women making pies. We’re all so lucky that Lisa has distilled her baking magic into a book that we can bake (and dance) our way through at home.”—Joy the Baker, author of Joy the Baker Over Easy
“A friendly guide for all things related to fillings and crusts, both sweet and savory. . . . Complete with photographs, helpful hints like “paperclipping” cherries to remove their pits, and uplifting writing (“You did it! You are now ready to fill the pie”), this book will motivate readers to become their own master pie makers.”—Publishers Weekly
About the Author
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I’m Lisa Louise Ludwinski, the owner of Sister Pie and the author of this book. I wrote this manuscript over the course of one year, sending out recipes to testers each month and camping out at my computer whenever I wasn’t at the bakery. As it turns out, I’m at the bakery a lot. I struggled and stressed to find time. Even when I could pull myself away, I couldn’t shift gears. My creativity and focus were at an all-time low. “How’s the cookbook going?” would throw me into a dual state of panic and denial. I’d either stammer complete gibberish in reply or launch into a spoken novel, almost certainly leaving the inquirer wishing they’d kept quiet. I began to resent the project and cursed myself for not waiting five more years, by which time things would almost certainly have settled down. (Don’t quote me on that.) Finally, I decided to do the unthinkable: take one month off. I knew that if I could physically remove myself from the daily operations of the bakery, I could make my deadline. Thankfully, the fourteen other women who run Sister Pie were up for the task of covering the day to day without me.
I’m grateful for this opportunity to capture and preserve the spirit of our young, wide-eyed pie shop, reflect on our beginnings and experience, and share the joy, terror, and confidence I’ve found through repetition and improvisation in the kitchen. I’ve written these recipes in the hope that they will inspire you, through the whimsy and heart conveyed on the pages, to run into your kitchen and bake pie (and more) for the people you love. Make this book a familiar friend—if you’re anything like me, the pages will become stained with cherry juice, made sticky from spilled maple syrup, and be dog-eared, creased, and doodled on.
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Product details
- Publisher : Lorena Jones Books; Illustrated edition (October 2, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0399579761
- ISBN-13 : 978-0399579769
- Item Weight : 2.24 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.7 x 1.04 x 10.28 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #56,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #17 in Midwestern U.S. Cooking, Food & Wine
- #18 in Pie Baking (Books)
- #22 in Thanksgiving Cooking
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About the author

Lisa Ludwinski spent her childhood in Milford, MIchigan making too-salty cookies and directing her neighbor friends in home movies. She studied Theatre Arts at Kalamazoo College before moving away to Brooklyn, NY to pursue dreams of directing. Naturally, the vibrant food culture of New York led to distraction that resulted in a low-budget cooking show called Funny Side Up that Lisa filmed in the many tiny apartment kitchens she inhabited over the course of her six-year stay. In 2012, she moved back to Michigan with dreams of opening a bakery with a big-hearted mission: make delicious food and treat your community (employees, neighbors, partners) well. Lisa launched Sister Pie out of her parent’s Milford kitchen and began to build the business piece-by-piece, with the help of many supporters and a whole lot of dancing. She and a small crew of passionate women opened the doors to the Detroit pie shop in April 2015, and they’ve been hustling ever since. Lisa currently lives with her pup Ruby Thursday in the West Village of Detroit - an approximate six minute walk away from Sister Pie.
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For those bothered by volume and weight, I own the Baker’s Appendix by Jessica Reed, and keep it in my kitchen. I use it often to convert volume to weight. It takes seconds and makes my life so much easier.
For those bothered by volume and weight, I own the Baker’s Appendix by Jessica Reed, and keep it in my kitchen. I use it often to convert volume to weight. It takes seconds and makes my life so much easier.
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2018
We thoroughly enjoyed every baked good that we tried in the bakery(between 3 of us we tried a lot!) but the sweet potato pie was the absolute best I’ve ever had! The cookies and some of their interesting ingredients like herbs or buckwheat flour may turn some people off but completely intrigued me to try not because they appeared to be some hipster bakery trying to be cool(it seems so 90s now anyway) but because this was an unpretentious bakery in an old building in a residential neighborhood that was bustling with so much activity and warm and fuzzies that I knew they must know a thing or two about flavors and boy do they ever! This is why I preordered the cookbook and it has not disappointed! The peanut butter cookies with paprika were a pleasant surprise and any of the shortbread cookies were crisp and well represented of the flavor they advertised as. What a story and what a cookbook, particularly if you love success stories from downtrodden areas like Detroit.
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2018
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2021
Ein Stern Abzug.. wenn ich ein Buch mit Rezepten für Pies suche, verstehe ich nicht, was Cookies und SALATE darin verloren haben. Sonst echt top. Freue mich aufs ausprobieren.
She loves it, but would have liked for the printed paper itself to have been of a better quality?
Pie Recipes are her "Coffee Table Books" and Sister Pies would have been worth the cost of "glossy photographs"!!!!
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