Barbecues and Salads
Author: Christine Franc
Barbecues are great fun and provide the opportunity to enjoy wonderful food and beautiful, relaxing surroundings; with their focus on fresh ingredients and quick preparation, barbecue and salad recipes are perfect for outdoor eating. This book contains more than 400 delicious reasons to eat al fresco.
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Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
In our molecules and in our dreams, we really are what we eat. Eating close to home is not just a matter of convenience -- it is an act of deeply sensual, cultural, and environmental significance. Gary Paul Nabhan's experience with food permeates his life as a first-generation Lebanese American, as an avid gardener and subsistence hunter-gatherer, as an ethnobotanist preserving seed diversity, and as an activist devoted to recovering native food traditions to restore the health of Native Americans in the Southwest. To rediscover what it might mean to "know your foodshed," he spent a year trying to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within two hundred miles of his home -- with surprising results. In Coming Home to Eat, Nabhan draws these experiences together in a book that is a culmination of his life's work -- and a vibrant portrait of our essential human relation to the foods that truly nourish us, affirming our bonds to family, community, landscape, and season.
Los Angeles Times - Merle Rubin
Nabhan is a very good writer, capable of transforming his adventures into a colorful and engrossing story that will appeal even to readers who might not enjoy a freshly prepared dish of locally obtained caterpillars.
Los Angeles Times -
[E]loquent, richly evocative... fascinating, enlightening and moving.
Jim Harrison
[A] profound and engaging book, a passionate call to us to re-think our food industry.
Alice Waters
Amazing and eloquent....Nabhan makes us understand how finding and eating local foods connects us deeply and sensually.
Stanley Crawford
A practical primer on how to 'eat locally, think globally'—and enjoy it more—wherever you are.
William Kittredge
Nabhan is a brilliant scientist and remarkably successful social activist....His stories are often funny and always invaluable.
Peter Hoffman
Nabhan brings the rare combination of the sensual and the intellectual to his writing about food....a soul food treatise for our time.
Rick Bayless
He offers an elegant, inspired and eloquently detailed account of becoming a 'direct participant' in the food that sustains him.
Los Angeles Times - Merle Rubin
[E]loquent, richly evocative... fascinating, enlightening and moving.
David Mas Masumoto
[Nabhan] writes with a passion for those of us who still see and trust the wild in our land.
Publishers Weekly
In a story entitled "Guy de Maupassant," Babel wrote: "When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice." Though he is discussing translation here, Babel might be describing his own approach to prose. The Russian writer was a prodigy, becoming famous upon the publication of his story collection The Red Cavalry, a landmark in modernism written when he was in his 20s. This new translation of his complete work, making available in English short stories that have been scattered in different collections, will be an essential book for anyone who cares about the art of the story. It gathers together not only the writer's fiction but his journalism and his plays; Cynthia Ozick contributes an introduction and editor Nathalie Babel, Babel's daughter, writes a preface. Those who have read Babel will want to turn first to the stories written between 1925 and 1938, which have been the hardest to find. They include such masterpieces as "Story of My Dovecote" and "My First Fee," the latter a typical combination of imagery ? la Chagall and brutally honest observations of the wounds caused by war and revolution. Babel's career, tragically, was cut short by Stalin, who had him arrested, tortured and shot in 1940. In the work he left behind, he is witness to the electric polarity between the 20th century's utopianism and its startling capacity for atrocity. Few writers possess Babel's level of genius and temerity, and this first complete collection should acquaint more readers with his unjustly neglected work. (Nov.)Forecast: This will be the Babel book for years to come, and should spark debate about Babel's place in the canon. If it attracts the same kind of interest as Richard Howard's 1998 retranslation of The Charterhouse of Parma, popular sales might take off; in any case, it will be a backlist fixture. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
One of the great Russian writers of the 20th century, Babel (1894-1941) was arrested in 1939 and later executed by Stalin's regime. In 1954, his work was largely republished, but much of his correspondence, drafts, and manuscripts was confiscated when he was arrested and has never resurfaced. Now, for the first time, all of Babel's surviving work has been assembled into one volume. Readers new to Babel will discover his "Red Cavalry" stories, plays, diaries, screenplays, and short stories. In addition to an introduction by Cynthia Ozick, the book is graced with an excellent preface and afterword by Babel's daughter, who also edited the volume. She provides recently uncovered information about her father's arrest and execution as well as personal remembrances. With the publication of this volume of Babel's work, it is hoped that a full-scale biography will follow. Essential for literature collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/01.] Ron Ratliff, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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