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Pie crust surprise: It's whole wheat

Fabulous pie crust made with whole wheat flour? Impossible. Or so I thought. Whole grains might have the upper hand nutrition-wise, but most everyone in the professional baking world knows that the refined stuff simply makes a flakier croissant, a light, fluffy biscuit and the most delicate pie crust.

So color me shocked when last week, GCB Cuisine Director Piper Davis returned from Kneading Conference West - an artisan baking confab in Mount Vernon, Wash.