The Women in Gods Kitchen or Martha Stewarts Hors DOeuvres

The Women in God's Kitchen: Cooking, Eating, and Spiritual Writing

Author: Cristina Mazzoni

About the Author:
Cristina Mazzoni is Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont

Library Journal

Mazzoni (romance languages, Univ. of Vermont), the author of the much-acclaimed Saint Hysteria as well as an authority on the life of modern mystic Gemma Galgani, has worked something like a miracle in this brief book. It is at once a pleasing collection of stylish essays, a journey through one person's spirituality, and a profound work of scholarship. Mazzoni finds and follows the trail of breadcrumbs-the fraught place of food and food writing-through the lives and works of dozens of holy women from Byzantine times to the day of Therese of Lisieux. The implications of Mazzoni's gracefully stated paradoxes and questions are enormous; her ideas are likely to cast a wide and bright light both for scholars in many fields and for the common reader seeking to understand the present in the light of the past. Highly recommended. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Martha Stewart's Hors D'Oeuvres

Author: Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart shares her ideas for delectable finger foods to serve at 13 different parties. Includes 150 original recipes, tips on sophisticated presentation, and nearly 200 glorious full-color photographs. 175 full-color photographs.

Youre Invited or Appetite for Passion

You're Invited: A Special Occasions Cookbook

Author: Smallwood Stewart

For Mary Engelbreit, cooking is not a stress-inducing quest for perfection. Entertaining is not a life and death endeavor. After all, the whole point of entertaining is to have fun, right?

In Mary's best-selling line of cookbooks, her sense of fun is always a key ingredient-to her approach, her presentation, and to the recipes themselves. You're Invited finds Mary doing what she does best: keeping it light and lively, having a good time, and providing practical tips on pulling off a perfectly wonderful entertaining event-from elegant dinners for two to all-your-neighbors-and-their-dogs cookout extravaganzas.

Sections include:

• Finger Foods and Appetizers
• Soups, Salads, and Side Dishes
• Main Courses
• Dreamy Desserts
• Coolers and Cocktails

She'll be the first to admit that she's not a doyenne of domesticity, but Mary Engelbreit has thrown and attended plenty of parties-and the best of what she's learned is all here. You're Invited isn't just recipes-it's a treasury of party wisdom and a guerrilla manual for the art of entertaining. It's guaranteed to help you get in there and get the job done-after all, you deserve to have as much fun at the party as everyone else.

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Appetite for Passion, Vol. 1

Author: Hyperion Books

These 80 seductive recipes gathered from celebrity entertainers and well-known restaurateurs like Marla Trump and Placido Domingo, as well as recipes from exotic places like the Kenya Hemingway Safari and the hyper-luxurious Orient Express, are sure to arouse and satisfy by bringing magic into the lives of those who cook and eat with love.

Love in Provence or Cook Ahead Cookbook

Love in Provence: Romantic Adventures in the South of France

Author: Yvone Lenard

Love is something quite different in Provence, as Yvone Lenard discovers when she chaperones 50 red-blooded American college students for a year at California State University's study abroad program in Aix-en-Provence. Proclaiming themselves on their applications to the program to be "ambassadors of culture," their thoughts and senses turn to romance and sex upon arrival. As Resident Director of the program Lenard soon has her hands full, but her sense of humor prevails and she stays to form affectionate relationships with the students and a love affair with Provence. When not counseling her charges, Lenard finds a "safe" escort in the charming and eccentric Bill Hope, an American expatriate with whom she probes ancient villages and ruins and dines at sunset on the terraces of elegant restaurants. The ten stories in this collection are set in some of the region's most romantic locales. Each story concludes with advice on where to go to experience romance and a menu for a dinner for two with simple recipes to recreate the sensual flavors of Provence.

Author Biography: Yvone Lenard is a native of France. She is the author of The Magic of Provence and Chantal. She lives in Los Angeles and Provence, France.

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Cook-Ahead Cookbook

Author: Cynthia MacGregor

Simply put, this cookbook is about good food prepared and cooked in advance-food you are proud to serve to company and glad to eat yourself. Not every food is suitable for cooking in advance and freezing, but many are; and The Cook-Ahead Cookbook tells you which ones. The author tells you the important details of how to prepare, package, freeze, defrost and reheat foods. Recipes include appetizers, chicken, beef, pork, lamb, sausage and veal dishes-a tremendous variety of wholesome main courses.

Herbal Tonic Therapies or Please Dont Feed the Bears Cookbook

Herbal Tonic Therapies

Author: Daniel Mowrey

Written by one of the most respected researchers in the field,Herbal Tonic Therapies looks at preventative herbal medicine,explaining how each system of the body can be strengthened and supported by herbal treatments. This truly holistic approach will appeal to health-conscious consumers who understand that the secret to being well is staying well.

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Please Don't Feed the Bears Cookbook

Author: Asbjorn Intonsus

A vegan cookbook in the vein of Soy Not Oi with hundreds of recipes and a wide variety of interesting dishes in here, too many to even try and pick out a few favorites to mention. Also, like Soy Not Oi there are articles about being vegan, numerous illustrations, and music to listen to while preparing food. Even a crossword about your favorite metal trivia to do while baking lasagna. It's exciting that after all of these years there is someone who has expanded on the groundbreaking idea of a political cookzine for the ungourmet, limited budget average punk.

Modern Winemaking or Walking the World in Wonder

Modern Winemaking

Author: Philip Jackisch

Here is a practical, comprehensive guide to winemaking, wines, and wine appreciation, written by an expert uniquely qualified by many years of experience in the field. Looking at winemaking as a craft as well as an art, Philip Jackisch augments a wealth of information and theory with many detailed examples. 'It is now possible for anyone with access to grapes or other ingredients of decent quality to make consistently palatable or even excellent wines, ' he writes.

Library Journal

A research chemist who has been active in the wine industry for many years, Jackisch is also a writer and senior editor of Wine magazine. Aiming at the amateur winemaker, he discusses grapes, wine composition, equipment and materials, microorganisms, and fermentation. In discussing cellar operations, he offers sound advice on methods for problem prevention, aging, blending, and laboratory analysis. He also covers competitions, record keeping, sensory evaluations, vinegars, and sources of supplies and additional information. Offering up-to-date, clear explanations of methods, rather than detailed ``how to'' guidance, Jackisch's book will be popular with small-quantity winemakers and anyone considering making wine. Carolyn I. Alexander, USACDEC Technical Information Ctr., Fort Ord., Cal.

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Walking the World in Wonder: A Children's Herbal

Author: Ellen Evert Hopman

Introduce children to the magic of using herbs for healing, cooking, and nature crafts and inspire a lifelong interest in the natural world.

• Designed especially for children ages five to ten.

• A hands-on book for children, filled with fun, easy-to-follow activities.

Walking the World in Wonder covers the medicinal and magical uses of sixty-seven common herbs. Each herb playfully introduces itself and talks about its habitat and many uses. With fun, easy-to-follow activities, herbalist Ellen Evert Hopman teaches children basic herbal skills and invites them to make a sunflower seed mosaic, sew a catnip-filled mouse, and dig for Jerusalem artichoke roots. The book also includes simple recipes that children can use, with adult supervision, to treat minor ailments--peppermint tea to soothe a troubled tummy or horse chestnut salve to heal a scraped knee. Children gain a sense of self-sufficiency and awe for the earth's treasures by eating wild nettle greens, sprinkling a sandwich with nasturtium flowers, making strawberry honey, and learning to season food with dill they've gathered themselves. Parents and teachers will appreciate how these earth-centered activities are placed within a broader social and environmental context. Sixty-seven full-color photographs enable children, parents, and teachers to identify these herbs during walks and field trips. Walking the World in Wonder gives children a direct and joyous experience of their connection to the natural world and inspires a lifelong interest in their own health and that of the planet.

Herb Network

Not only is this book beautiful, my kids love it! That is the whole point of the book, introducing children to herbs. Beginning with a few pages of information for parents, the book is laid out to make finding and gathering herbs fun! What a wonderful concept.

Children's Book Watch

Kids ages 5-10 and their parents will find Walking The World In Wonder an inviting survey of the medicinal and magical uses of over sixty common herbs. Each herb introduces itself and talks about its uses, with activities reinforcing the lessons on basic herbal skills, along with simple recipes kids can use.

Table of Contents:

Walking the World in Wonder
A Children's Herbal

A Note to Parents and Teachers
Introduction
The Wheel of the Year
Autumn
Barberry, Burdock, Fennel, Juniper, Oak, Partridgeberry, Walnut, Wintergreen
Winter
Bayberry, Holly, Mistletoe, Pine
Spring
Birch, Chives, Curled Dock, Dandelion, Ferns, Hawthorn Tree, Hemlock Tree, Horsetail, Lamb's-quarters, Maple Tree, Milkweed, Plantain, Pokeweed, Stinging Nettle, Wild Strawberry, Trillium, Violet, Yarrow
Summer
Basil, Bee Balm, Blueberry, Calendula, Wild Carrot, Catnip, Chamomile, Cinquefoil, Club Moss, Coltsfoot, Comfrey, Daisy, Daylily, Dill, Echinacea, Elderberry, Ginger, Goldenrod, Jerusalem Artichoke, Lavender, Lemon Balm, Marjoram, Mint, Nasturtium, Parsley, Poplar, Purslane, Raspberry, Red Clover, Rose, Rosemary, Sage, Staghorn Sumac, Sunflower, Thyme, Willow, Witch Hazel
Epilogue
Bibliography
Resources

Ellen Evert Hopman is a Druid priestess, master herbalist, and lay homeopath who holds an M.Ed. in mental health counseling. She is a founding member and co-chief of the Order of the White Oak (Ord na Darach Gile), serves on the Grey Council of Mages and Sages, and is a professor of Wortcunning at the Grey School of Wizardry. She is the author of A Druid’s Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year; Walking the World in Wonder; Being a Pagan, Tree Medicine, Tree Magic; and Priestess of the Forest. She lives in Massachusetts.

Barbecues and Salads or Coming Home to Eat

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.