Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South (Rebecca Sharpless) Tokyo Apple pie with browned butter

Apple pie with browned butter spiced like warm mulled cider

as well as Cecily Brownstone

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NY: Harper Collins

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Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South (Rebecca Sharpless) Tokyo Apple pie with browned butterWhile a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditionsIndigenous American, European, and Africancollided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know