It won the award of “Your Best Peach Pie or Tart” in the classic A&M (aka Amanda and Merrill) Smackdown. It has over a four-star rating from more than 600 reviewers. It’s prime for peach season and has been baked by home cooks time and time again. There’s a lot of love for Amanda Hessert’s Peach Tart recipe...but there’s some hate, too.
As a criminal defense lawyer, Rob Herrington’s natural instinct is to defend things he believes are worthy of a second chance. But this time, we’re not talking about his clients. We’re talking about Food52’s co-founder’s peach tart recipe. After baking Amanda’s Peach Tart and falling in love with the crust, Herrington, who lives in Dallas, Texas, did something he rarely does on recipe posts—he left a review. “I commented that the recipe was great and all of a sudden, I started getting emails that people were commenting ‘this was the worst recipe in the history of the universe.’ If it was something really complicated like pheasant under glass or bouillabaisse, I could understand if you messed up, but the recipe was really quite straightforward.”