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Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate
The rollicking biography of Clementine Paddleford: a go- anywhere, taste-anything, ask-everything kind of reporter who traveled more than 50,000 miles a year in search of stories . . . matched as a regional-food pioneer only by James Beard. (R. W. Apple , Jr., The New York Times) In Hometown Appetites, an award-winning food writer and a leading university archivist come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you have never heard of. Clementine Paddleford was a Kansas farm girl who grew up to chronicle Americas culinary habits. Her weekly readership at the New York Herald Tribune topped 12 million during the 1950s and 1960s and she earned a salary of $250,000. Yet twenty years after Americas bestknown food editor passed away, she had been forgotten until now. At a time when few women worked outside the home, Paddleford flew her own Piper Cub to meet her readers and find out what was for dinner. Before Paddleford, newspaper food sections were dull primers on home economy. But she changed all of that, composing her own brand of sassy, unerringly authoritative prose designed to celebrate regional home cooking. Her magnum opus, a book called How America Eats, published in 1960, reveals an appetite for life that was insatiable. This book restores Paddlefords name where it belongs: in the pantheon alongside those of James Beard and Julia Child. Its a five-star read in the spirit of national bestsellers such as Heat and The United States of Arugula..
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The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos (European Women Writers)
Set in the German Democratic Republic of the early 1970s, The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice—a landmark novel now translated into English for the first time—is a highly entertaining adventure story as well as a feminist critique of GDR socialism, science, history, and aesthetic theory. In May 1968, after an eight-hundred-year sleep, Beatrice awakens in her Provence château. Looking for work, she makes her way to Paris in the aftermath of the student uprisings, then to the GDR (recommended to her as the “promised land for women”), where she meets Laura Salman, socialist trolley driver, writer, and single mother, who becomes her minstrel and alter ego. Their exploits—Beatrice on a quest to find the unicorn, Laura on maternity leave in Berlin—often require black-magic interventions by the Beautiful Melusine, who is half dragon and half woman. Creating a montage of genres and text types, including documentary material, poems, fairy tales, interviews, letters, newspaper reports, theoretical texts, excerpts from earlier books of her own, pieces by other writers, and parodies of typical GDR genres, Irmtraud Morgner attempts to write women into history and retell our great myths from a feminist perspective. .
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How to Understand the Book of Jeremiah - During a Forty-year-long Ministry He Chronicled Major World Events - Important Lessons of God and Man on Earth - A Detailed Presentation of Jeremiah's Life, Times and Ministry, & Scriptural Information of Him
Jeremiah was an eye-witness of the fall of the kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians, a process which extended from 598 to 586 B.C. During his forty-year-long ministry he chronicled major world events. But more importantly, he cried repentance to a nation which was wallowing in corruption. From his writing we learn important lessons about how God deals with man and what is expected of us here on earth. Jeremiah also made sweeping prophecies of last-days events, and we learn much of what is yet future from his writings.An invaluable addition to any LDS library, this book includes a detailed presentation of Jeremiah's life, times and ministry, including scriptural information about him, and about the contemporary kings of his time, and about the national conditions that prevailed. Also included is an outline of the Book of Jeremiah itself, information about the style of the book, its textual transmission, the date of auhorship, textual criticism, detailed doctrinal analyses, changes made in the Inspired Version, and an overall summary. A listing and ordering of Jreemiah's prophecies about the last days is presented. Jeremiah is believed to be the author of the book of Lamentations, which is also covered in this valuable book..
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