Today we speak with Stacey Mei Yan Fong, creator of the project which spawned her new book 50 Pies, 50 States: An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the United States Through Pie. We discuss how Stacey’s thinking about America changed while creating this road trip of a cookbook, and we hear how she navigated the darker parts of America while celebrating the country. She also gives us her best baking tips, and we fight over a pie not included in the book.
The Stacks Book Club selection for June is Oreo by Fran Ross. We will discuss the book on June 28th with Hannah Oliver Depp
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- 50 Pies, 50 States by Stacey Mei Yan Fong
- Nora Ephron
- Nancy Meyers
- “Home” (Edward Sharpe, 2009)
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- James Baldwin
- Pepperoni Rolls
- Milk bread buns for hot dogs
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
- “Ep. 86 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat — The Stacks Book Club (Hugh Garvey)” (The Stacks)
- “Virgo’s Groove” (Beyonce, 2022)
- Parsons School of Design (NYC, NY)
- Entenmann’s Crumb Coffee Cake
- “all butter, really flaky pie dough” (Smitten Kitchen)
- The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman
- Dolly Parton
- The Stacks Pack on Patreon
- “Unabridged: Be the Host with the Most Delicious Snacks with Katherine Lewin” (The Stacks)
- Big Night (NYC, NY)
- Four & Twenty Blackbirds (Brooklyn, NY)
- Christopher Hermelin
- Michael Szczerban
- Bonilla a la Vista Potato Chips
- Schitt’s Creek (CBC)
- Whitney Houston’s National Anthem at the Superbowl
- Marvin Gaye’s 1983 Anthem
- Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
- Stacey’s Nora Ephron & Nancy Myers pie project Part 1 & Part 2 (Instagram)
- The Holiday (Nancy Meyers, 2006)
- Fettuccine Pie
- “Sohla El-Waylly shows Al Roker how to make the juiciest turkey for Thanksgiving” (Ronnie Koenig, Today)
- Maman (Brooklyn, NY)
- Sloane Tea
- Cheryl Day
- Back in the Day Bakery (Savannah, GA)
- Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking by Cheryl Day
- Eric Zimmer
- The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley
- My Tennessee Mountain Home by Dolly Parton
- Live in The Stacks Tour
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