Nancie McDermott - Southern Pies: A Gracious Plenty of Pie Recipes, From Lemon Chess to Chocolate Pecan

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS What a sweet and glorious abundance of good, brilliant, creative, and generous people I have on my cookbook-cooking-up team! Deepest gratitude and respect to my editor Bill LeBlond, who took a chance on my first book a few miles back along this road. Warmest thanks to Amy Treadwell, Peter Perez, Sarah Billingsley, Anne Donnard, Tera Killip, Doug Ogan, and David Hawk at Chronicle Books, for creativity, energy, smarts, and patience beyond the call. For photographs that are lovely and moving beyond words, all praise and glory to Leigh Beisch and her amazing team. Finally, big sweet Southern hugs to precious friends and family, starting with Lisa Ekus, literary agent as well as dear friend; and to Susanne and Bill Settle, Jill OConnor, Sandra Gutierrez, Dean Nichols, Debbie Gooch, Connie Gates, Brenda Hines, Lorie Clark, Louise Parrish, Shelbie White, Libbie Hall and Edna Hall Gambling, Kevin Hicks and Suepinda Keith, Stan Cheren, Renny and Bria Johnson, Bob and Vada Satterfield, and my sweeter-than-chess-pie family, Will, Camellia, and Isabelle Lee.

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