Another Slice of Arkansas Pie: A Guide to the Best Restaurants, Bakeries, Truck Stops and Food Trucks for Delectable Bites in The Natural State - Softcover

Robinson, Kat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0999873407 ISBN 13: 9780999873403

Publisher: Tonti Press, 2018

Synopsis

Arkansas loves pie. Across The Natural State, from Lake Village to Gentry, Piggott to Texarkana and all points in-between, great pie can be found. Kat Robinson takes to Arkansas's highways, byways and pieways to share locations that offer the tasty dessert, from the loftiest of fine dining restaurants to the humblest of cafes, including bakeries and panaderias, antique malls, farmer's markets, food trucks, truck stops, and pie-related events.

This handy travel guide includes listings for more than 475 establishments that offer pie in Arkansas. A wide array of pies can be found within this vetted collection, alongside gorgeous full-color photography. Enjoy delectable tales of many of the eateries that offer these pastries, and stories of the unique individuals who bring them to the table. Follow pie trails through each region, or make up a pie recipe from one of these great eateries on your own, and discover why The Natural State can also be called The Pie State.

Includes 33 pie recipes and more than 400 color photographs.

About this title

About the Author

Kat Robinson is Arkansas's food historian and most enthusiastic road warrior. The Little Rock-based travel writer is the host of AETN's "Make Room For Pie; A Delicious Slice of The Natural State" and a committee member for the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame. The author of Arkansas Food: The A to Z of Eating in The Natural State, Kat has also compiled the comprehensive travel guide for pie lovers, Another Slice of Arkansas Pie: A Guide to the Best Restaurants, Bakeries, Truck Stops and Food Trucks for Delectable Bites in The Natural State (2018). Her other books are Arkansas Pie: A Delicious Slice of the Natural State (2012), Classic Eateries of the Ozarks and Arkansas River Valley (2013), and Classic Eateries of the Arkansas Delta (2014). She is the Arkansas fellow to the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, and the 2011 Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Henry Award winner for Media Support.

Her work appears in regional and national publications including Food Network, Forbes Travel Guide, Serious Eats, AAA Magazines and AY Magazine, among others. While she writes on food and travel subjects throughout the United States, she is best known for her ever-expanding knowledge of Arkansas food history and restaurant culture, all of which she explores on her 1200+ article website, TieDyeTravels.com. 

Kat's journeys across Arkansas have earned her the title "road warrior," "traveling pie lady," and probably some minor epithets. Few have spent as much time exploring The Natural State, or researching its cuisine. "The Girl in the Hat" has been sighted in every one of Arkansas's 75 counties, oftentimes sliding behind a menu or peeking into a kitchen. 

Before jumping into the world of food and travel writing, Kat was a television producer at Little Rock CBS affiliate THV and Jonesboro ABC affiliate KAIT, as well as a radio producer and personality for KARN Newsradio.

Kat lives with daughter Hunter and partner Grav Weldon in Little Rock.

Review

"Warning: The pie pictures and write-ups will make you throw your diet to the wind and head to the nearest pie shop, the directions to which you'll find in this book."  ~ Leslie Newell Peacock, Arkansas Times

"Kat Robinson has done it again -- Another Slice of Arkansas Pie: A Guide to the Best Restaurants, Bakeries, Truck Stops and Food Trucks for Delectable Bites in the Natural State published last month by Tonti Press -- is sure to please pie lovers and Arkansas travelers. From well-known and long-established diners to restaurants, barbecue joints and gas stations -- if it serves pie in the state of Arkansas, it's likely in this book."
~ Kelly Brant, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

"The book is divided into regions, and something interesting has caught on among its readers. It isn't clear how it started, but now as pie lovers travel the state, they keep their book with them to document their pie-sampling history. It seems there are as many kinds of pies as there are small towns in Arkansas."
 ~ Linda Laughlin, Southwest Times Record

"Yum! The author has baked up a terrific guidebook for the best pies in Arkansas. The volume represents 400 venues - fine dining restaurants, bakeries, diners, food trucks and more. The narrative has flavor as well as the pies as she explains the history behind the particular flavor of a pie or its cultural footprint or the narrative of the bakers and venues. This is much more than just a lot of pictures of a lot of pies - although there is that, too. There are pie photos on nearly every page. The time the author applied to this project can only be inferred, not to mention the calories consumed. The celebration of pies makes the narrative readable; it is informational without being overly sweet. Since these pies are created in a deeply Southern milieu, the volume also reflects the regionalism of pies, their recipes and their names. Therefore, it's not surprising to find a Key Lime pie on chocolate cookie crust. There are some recipes included (and these are listed in blue among the index of venues in the back). For anyone who likes pies planning a trip to Arkansas, this should be a companion. In fact, it's a wonder that Arkansas car dealers and car rental companies don't include this volume with every transaction. Yum!" ~ Judge, 25th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards

Edition details

• Publisher: Tonti Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0999873407
• ISBN 13: 9780999873403
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 322