Want to make tastier, prettier pies? A baker tells us where to tart
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I baked my first pie in February of 2018. I know this because I posted a picture of it on my Instagram account. It had a blackberry filling and the taste was on-point. It looked, on the other hand, pretty hideous. My friend called me up to tell me that if I wanted to feel even worse about my first foray into pie baking, I should check out an Instagram account called @lokokitchen.
@lokokitchen is Lauren Ko's account, devoted to her exquisite, work-of-art pies. I was hooked on her patterns — each pie more intricate than the last. I'd never seen anything like it and I've been following her ever since. Her pies and tarts inspire me.
Ko's cookbook Pieometry offers countless beautiful photographs of her 'bakes', accompanied by detailed instructions for latticework, tiled crusts and shingled fruit slices. Plus, if you're a fan of puns as much as pies, you're in for an additional treat.
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