Article: Pie a la Road; Traveling author chooses Bernard woman's recipe

Pat Larkin has been baking a great lemon pie most of her life, but she never thought her recipe would get published in a nationally released book.She didn't even respond to the woman in New York who left a message on her answering machine a few months ago stating she wanted to publish her recipe.

So it came as a surprise when this columnist called her to ask about the recipe on page 207 of "American Pie - Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads."

"You're kidding, my recipe is in the book?" the Bernard, Iowa, woman said. "I had no idea it was in the book. She must have gotten it out of our parish cookbook (St. Patrick's in Garryowen)."

I was as surprised as she that she didn't ...

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