A fun and festive dinner for four on Friday night of last week had a fine evening-ender: Atlantic Beach pie. This outstanding but surprisingly easy pie has been showing up here since I first came across a recipe for it just over a decade ago, but its roots go deep into family beach trips to the North Carolina coast and the typical dessert we'd have after some large platters of fried seafood. While I want to be clear that I fancy myself to have no magic in my chef's touch—that the key often seems to be in doing exactly what the recipe tells me—it seems to wash over guests like something out of this world. I'm right there with 'em.
"One Phenomenal Pie: Atlantic Beach Pie," from Chef Bill Smith. Published in Our State Magazine, May 2014. Also featured in "Found Recipes" on All Things Considered from National Public Radio, broadcast April 13, 2013. First made in the RoHo: July 2014.
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