The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook: Sweet and Savory Comfort Food from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery by Brian Noyes

While he was art director for the Washington Post and Smithsonian magazines, the author, Brian Noyes, baked on weekends in his 170-year-old farmhouse and sold his pies and breads from his old red truck. Now he owns and manages two restaurants in the vicinity of Shenandoah National Park. This book, following up on the success of his 2018 book, Red Truck Bakery Cookbook: Gold Standard Recipes from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery, includes almost 100 new recipes. Of course any book with a Foreword by Ronni Lundy is a cinch to purchase. “A salvation for the home cook: Superb bakery fare rounds out what was missing from the first book (Hello, Peach Hand Pies!), but it’s the savory contributions that got this city boy rolling up his jeans. From the Mushroom Tartines to the Quiche Lorraine to the Brunswick Stew, we finally get the Red Truck in all its glory, pulling up to our own kitchens.”—Andrew Zimmern. “Brian Noyes’s collection of joyful recipes is like flipping through a family recipe bo