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Kitchen Yarns

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by Ann Hood


  INGREDIENTS

  CRUST

  2 cups all-purpose flour

  1 stick butter

  4 teaspoons baking powder

  ¾ cup milk

  FILLING

  2 pounds fresh tomatoes, sliced thin, or, in winter, two 28-ounce cans of good canned tomatoes, drained and sliced thin

  3 to 4 tablespoons chopped basil, chives, or scallions

  1½ cups grated sharp cheddar cheese

  ⅓ cup mayonnaise

  2 tablespoons lemon juice

  Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

  To make the double biscuit crust, blend by hand or in a food processor the flour, butter, baking powder, and milk.

  Roll half of the dough on a floured surface and fit into a 9-inch pie plate.

  Lay the tomatoes over the crust and scatter basil, chives, or scallions over them.

  Sprinkle 1 cup of the shredded cheddar over the tomatoes.

  Thin the mayonnaise with the lemon juice and drizzle it over the tomatoes and cheese.

  Cover with the remaining cheddar cheese.

  Roll out the remaining crust and fit it over the top, sealing the edges and cutting steam slits.

  Bake for 25 minutes.

  This pie can be made ahead and reheated at 350 degrees F till gooey.

  Acknowledgments

  I am the luckiest writer around and so grateful for my agent, Gail Hochman, and everyone at Brandt & Hochman, as well as my editor Jill Bialosky, my publicist Erin Lovett, and everyone at W. W. Norton. Lucky and grateful, too, for my wonderful kids, Sam and Annabelle, who support and indulge their writer mom. Thank you to my love, my husband, Michael Ruhlman, who makes every day happy. It breaks my heart that my mom, Gogo, didn’t live to see this book in print. But her fingerprints are on every page, and on my heart.

  Some of the essays appeared in earlier publications:

  “The Golden Silver Palate” in Alimentum and in Best Food Writing 2011

  “The Best Fried Chicken” in Riverteeth

  “Love, Lunch, and Meatball Grinders” in Parade

  “Confessions of a Marsha Jordan Girl” in Yankee

  “My Father’s Pantry” in Tin House

  “Party Like It’s 1959” in Food & Wine

  “How to Butcher a Pig” in Rhode Island Monthly

  “How to Smoke Salmon” in Brainchild

  “The Summer of Omelets” in Brainchild

  “Tomato Pie” in Tin House and in Best Food Writing 2014

  ALSO BY ANN HOOD

  Morningstar: Growing Up with Books

  The Book That Matters Most

  An Italian Wife

  The Obituary Writer

  The Red Thread

  Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

  The Knitting Circle

  An Ornithologist’s Guide to Life

  Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine

  EDITED BY ANN HOOD

  Knitting Pearls

  Knitting Yarns

  Pages 114–15: Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Guacamole recipe courtesy Christopher Kimball.

  Page 126: Li-Young Lee, excerpt from “From Blossoms” from Rose.

  Copyright © 1986 by Li-Young Lee. Reprinted with permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.

  Copyright © 2019 by Ann Hood

  All rights reserved

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

  Names: Hood, Ann, 1956–

  Title: Kitchen yarns : notes on life, love, and food / Ann Hood. Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923, [2018]

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018027425 | ISBN 9780393249507 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Cooking. | Hood, Ann, 1956– | Novelists, American—20th century—Biography. | LCGFT: Cookbooks. Classification: LCC TX714 .H6573 2018 | DDC 641.5—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018027425

  ISBN: 978-0-39324-951-4 (ebk.)

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