Book Description: What is a Pie Lady moment? For one family, it s breakfast on the patio. For another, it s Mom serving up creamy chicken and noodles. These are Pie Lady moments: times of goodness and glamour in the middle of ordinary days. In The Pie Lady, Mennonite homemaker Greta Isaac ushers readers into the kitchens of Velda, Shyla, and other Pie Ladies as they whip up confections and concoctions that please the mouth and nourish the soul. Fans of Ruth Reichl, Sherry Gore, and Ree Drummond will love Isaacs intimate, delectable writing. Home cooks will love the recipes that appear in each chapter. Maybe you drop grapefruit slices in a glass of water. Maybe you brown the gravy and salt it from eighteen inches up. (Forget for now the sink full of dishes.) Each cook has her own Pie Lady moments. Each has a story to tell. Hear straight from Amish and Mennonite people themselves as they write about their daily lives and deeply rooted faith in the Plainspoken series from Herald Press.
My Thoughts: When I saw this book I thought it would be all about pie. I was so wrong!
This book is a treasure of inspiration. A slice of life passed on to others.
Mrs. Issac is a Mennonite wife and mother who has "pie" moments." Those inspiring times where she has a short story or a memory that has to do with a specific dish she has made...not necessarily pie.
I love her thoughts and inspirations about life. To me this is more like a devotional book with wonderful recipe thrown in as a reference point.
There are 194 pages all filled to the brim and then at the end of each chapter there is a wonderful recipe.
I've decided to use this as a devotional book as I read and journal from my daily devotions.
This is a smallish, not too large of a book and it would make a great gift.
- Paperback: 202 pages
- Publisher: Herald Press
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1513804219
- ISBN-13: 978-1513804217
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