title: The Pie and Pastry Bible
author:  Rose Levy Beranbaum 
description: Reading about the ins and outs of baking the perfect, flaky pie crust is a little like reading about how to achieve the perfect golf swing: the proof is in the doing. And it often takes a remarkably intuitive reader to understand exactly what the author is getting at. Not so the work of Rose Levy Beranbaum, the author who gave us <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688044026/${0}">The Cake Bible</a></i>. If ever there was a cookbook author who could place her hands on top of yours, putting you through the proper motions, helping you arrive at just the right touch, Beranbaum is the one.
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  The Ephesian Matron and Other
  
  
  THE EEL PIE
  
  THE MAGNIFICENT
  
  THE EPHESIAN MATRON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Ephesian Matron and Other
  
  
  ### Jean de La Fontaine
  
  
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  * THE EEL PIE
  
  
  * THE MAGNIFICENT
  
  
  * THE EPHESIAN MATRON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  ### THE EEL PIE
  
  
  HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find,
  
  
  It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind:
  
  
  Brown bread as well as white must be for me;
  
  
  My motto ever is—VARIETY.
  
  
  THAT brisk brunette, with languid, sleepy eye,
  
  
    
  Delights my fancy; Can you tell me why?
  
  
    
  The reason 's plain enough:—she 's something new.
  
  
    
  The other mistress, long within my view,
  
  
    
  Though lily fair, with seraph features blessed,
  
  
    
  No more emotion raises in my breast;
  
  
    
  Her heart assents, while mine reluctant proves;
  
  
    
  Whence this diversity that in us moves?
  
  
    
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