It’s all about pie this week at the always-impressive Food 52.

Everything you need to make the perfect pie. 

Cook’s Illustrated’s Foolproof Pie Crust. 

Four & Twenty Blackbird’s All-Butter Pie Crust.

Cranberry Sage Pie.

Lemon Chess Pie. 

Oatmeal and Chocolate Pie.

Five links to read before baking a pie. 

Six ways to fancy up your pie. 

Get the Four & Twenty Blackbird new cookbook. 

That’s how they roll in Belgium.

David Lebovitz provides comfort. 

Al is great. Give us the chocolate cake. 

(The video is out-of-synch but that’s okay, just listen…)

The Wife and I stopped in to a charming new Belgian spot on the Upper East Side last weekend. They serve special little meringues. The Wife took a picture. Spot is worth dropping in on for a treat if you’re in that neighborhood.

Homemade Snickers? Well, why not? Not Without Salt gets busy.

Back to basics. Alexandra makes an apple pie.

Apple Cider Doughnuts. Seriously. 

Alexandra gives Bulgogi with Cucumber-Apple Pickle.

Oh fuggin’ hell yes.

Alexandra gives us pasta with Marcella’s tomato sauce and hot Italian sausage. 

From Food 52: “A perfect grilled cheese needs no filter.” Amen to that.

Been awhile since I’ve had a grilled cheese. Hmmm….

Summer ain’t over, not just yet. Smitten Kitchen gives us popsicles: pink lemonade, butterscotch pudding and key lime pie.

The perfect bacon cooking method.

Fast Food — Jon Feinstein

Jon Feinstein photographs fast food his way.

Saveur‘s beautiful “America’s Heartland” issue visits Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Dig in to some of these tasty-looking recipes.

[Photo Credit: James Roper,

Saveur gives apricot tarts with pistachios.

[Photo Credit: Penny De Los Santo]

Food 52 gets elegant. 

August brings tomatoes; Bon Appetit gives this tomato salad recipe.

Alexandra: Oh, hell yes.

Sushi Bytes makes Cronuts at home.