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Murder, She Wrote: Margaritas & Murder (Murder She Wrote)
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Now in paperback Ms. Fletcher finds murder south of the border...in the USA Today bestselling series.
Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher visits Mexico for a little R&R in San Miguel de Allende-the perfect place for her to soak up the sun, bask in Mexican culture, and spend time with her good friends Vaughan and Olga Buckley. But when Vaughan is kidnapped for a large ransom, Jessica must put her life on the line to find him.
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Murder She Wrote: Margaritas & Murder.......2007-08-06
Another good Murder She Wrote.. This one really kept me guessing about who did the murder. Well written and keeps you in suspense.
Adventures in Mexico.......2005-11-09
Over the course of this series Jessica's publisher Vaughan Buckley and his wife Olga have taken on a more and more important role. At first they would just appear on occasion when Jessica had finished a book or when she was in New York. Finally Jessica spent a vacation at an Inn near the Buckley's home in the Hamptons and in this entry she is spending some time with them in yet another of their vacation homes. This time, unlike Jessica's trip to the Hamptons, the Buckley's are at the very center of the story from beginning to end and despite missing Seth and Mort, I found this story to be a very refreshing change. I do however hope and expect to see the Cabot Cove crew back at the forefront of the next book.
Vaughan and Olga have purchased a vacation home in rural Mexico and Jessica goes for a visit. Once she is there she meets a large group of Americans and Canadians who have retired to the area. As usual, Donald Bain does an excellent job of creating the characters with whom Jessica will interact. Some are very likable while others were so irritating that I found myself hurrying to get through the sections in which they appeared. Just like real people however, all of these characters are not really all that they seem to be but with Jessica on the case no one's secrets are safe.
"The case" in this book involves the kidnapping of Vaughan Buckley while he is on a trip with the outgoing and gregarious Woody Manheim who is retired from the military. When the pair does not return on time Olga, who was against the trip from the beginning, calls the police who find the pair's abandoned car along with a blood soaked handkerchief. Not sure just how far she can trust the police Jessica begins to snoop and because the life of her friend is in serious danger she takes her snooping to a new level. In the process she very much violates the privacy of several people but justifies it to herself because time is of the essence. In the end however it is not Jessica's snooping but instead an act of kindness on her part that provides the key clue.
The most impressive thing about this book however is the way that the author builds the suspense as his story progresses. As the reader nears the climactic moment the pace of the book picks up considerably and I found myself moving toward the edge of my seat. This reaction in the reader is a clear mark of a good mystery and since I scooted up so far that I almost fell out of my recliner this must indeed be a good mystery novel. It's not the best entry in the series by any means but this is certainly a very solid and enjoyable book.
Another good effort by Mr Bain........2005-11-02
Yet another solid Murder She Wrote novel from the safe hands of Donald Bain, as always Mr Bain's easy to read style creates vivid images in you mind of people and places, his knack seems to be that he can do this witout the reader ever feeling that the story is becoming bogged down.
As others have mentioned the only real problem is Jesica's missing friends from back in Cabot Cove, not even the usual mention of the likes of Mort or Seth, or of Mara's Luncheonette or Charlene Sassi's bakery.
Still all told this is a solid installment in the series, can't wait for the next (which I believe is the final book in the current contact, however Mr Bain has just signed a contract for another four books in the series!)
Good Entry for the Series.......2005-11-01
"Margaritas and Murder" is a standard par-for-the-course novel in the "Murder She Wrote" mystery series. Taking place in a small town in Mexico where her publisher and his wife have a summer home, the story revolves around the kidnapping of her publisher and the murder of another american who take I road trip together while she is visiting. In the midst of the investigating the murder/kidnapping on her own (as she always does) Jessica find herself dealing with an assorted cast of characters ranging from the other Americans who live in the small town, the local residents and the possibly corrupt government officials. It would have been easy for this book to portray the people of Mexico with the usual tired stereotypes, but for the most part, the locals are portrayed in a dignified fashion. There are some twists along the way, and the ending, while mildly surprising, is not out of this world for those who love the rest of the series. The writing, as usual, is easy to follow and makes an enjoyable afternoon read. It is not great literature - but it does make for a great afternoon of reading. If you have enjoyed the rest of the series, you will probably enjoy this one as well.
One of Jessica's Best.......2005-10-18
This is one of the best Murder She Wrote books thus far. While normally the stories set in Cabot Cove are the most enjoyable, this one set in Mexico with her publisher friends is just as good. I completely forgot about Seth and Mort back home and this time they were not missed. There's a lot of action right from the start and the ending is very well done.
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Mutiny: Cabot Cove, ME, is a quiet little community. Although the town profits from the lobster trade, tourists avoid the Main Street shopping district. The First Annual Cabot Cove Lobster Festival promises to change all that, with a 3 day celebration featuring a crafts fair, beauty pageant, & feast provided by the town's lobstermen. Mystery author Jessica Fletcher will also contribute to the affair by penning a feature article about the lobstermen for the local newspaper. But Jessica finds that the lobstermen are a tight-lipped group when it comes to their business. Their arrangement with the town to provide enough lobsters for the festival has caused dissension in their ranks. When Jesesica discovers one of them murdered, she must outwit a killer before she becomes the next catch of the day.
Palette: Jessica Fletcher has come to the elegant Hamptons on Long Island's gold coast for a sinfully sweet spell in the sun & to indulge her secret burning passion; painting. In this place where the arts flower & artists flock, she finds a sketching class where she can try to make her dreams come true. But Jessica has only a brief time behind an easel before she finds herself under the gun to solve a mystery as tantalizing as its victim. A lovely young model lies like a corpse on a studio floor, & Jessica needs no painter's eye to realize that her look of death is no pose. Jessica lays down her brush & starts picking up every clue in & out of sight. Back at doing what she does best, she finds herself involved in a case where a mysterious masterpiece, a mountain of money, a mourning millionaire, & a slightly mad painter lead her down a twisting trail of illusion & confusion. Watching her every move is an artist of evil, who is all too willing, eager, & able to color Jessica blood red.
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OK Conan novel.......2003-12-31
This is about an average Conan novel. It starts out much better than it ends, but it is always at least readable. In "Conan the Raider", our barbarian warrior teams up with a group of tomb raiders (sadly, Laura Croft wasn't among them), then learns of a kind of funeral cult in the capital of Shem. It is lead by an evil necromancer (wizard with control over the dead) and sponsered by a dying king. Conan gets caught up in more palace intrigue with the decent princess against the evil step mother queen. There is also the grave theives to worry about. The early scenes in the ghost ridden tombs were much better and exciting than the later "JFK"-type conspiracys later on, and the part where Conan is thrown into slavery was very dull. But all in all, it isn't too bad, and better than other Conan books.
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The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya
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In this age of globalization, fear of terrorist threats and pandemic diseases such as AIDS, author Jean Davison returns to Mt. Kenya's foothills to discover how farmers whose lives she has followed for 20 years, view the changes of the last decade, especially the seismic shift in the political landscape at the end of 2002. It's a tumultuous moment; villagers are dancing in the streets. They walked miles to vote. The sole party in power since independence was trounced. With keen insight and a sensitivity born of living elbow to elbow with Kenyan villagers, Davison captures their anxieties and hopes for the future and links them to our own hopes in America. Part travel tale and part social commentary, "The Ostrich Wakes" both engages and enlightens us. It is unique in drawing on the voices of both elders and, especially, young people and weaving them into her story.
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A collection of stories depicting a dramatic national metamorphosis.......2007-05-16
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Dr. Jean Davison, an anthropologist, returns to visit the foothills of Mt. Kenya. Davison returns to Kenya to discover how the Gikuyu farmers view the changes of the last decade in their country. Her return to a land where she had lived, worked and studied twenty years earlier came at the very time the political party in power since Kenya received independence, had been replaced. Excitement was everywhere. Expectations were high.
The remote rural areas of Kenya have become linked to the global coffee and tea markets, as well as the internet, TV, and cell phones. Any change will benefit some and disadvantage others in this age of globalization. The title of the book "The Ostrich Wakes" speaks of the many changes in Highland Kenya: the coming of electricity, improved transportation, and the availability of education. This is a wakeup call at a time of crisis. Davison was particularly concerned about the impact of these changes in relation to "Women's Concerns" in education, economic opportunity, property rights, overpopulation, family planning skills, and "AIDS."
Dr. Davison contacted village elders and youth alike to learn how they had been impacted through these transitions. She visited old friends to interview them about the long awaited changes in the government, the uncertainties of the economy, of the trends in agricultural, and the educational opportunities available to the children and youth of Kenya.
As she retraced her steps of earlier visits she was particularly interested in how traditions, customs, rituals, and coming of age rites had changed since her last visit. Among others she interviewed four generations of one family to get a comparison of how time and education have impacted how they learn, what they had learned by observing their mothers, and what they had learned in the more formal school setting. Many of those interviewed were open and frank, and shared freely in their stories of coming of age, marriage and childbirth. Others were more private, especially when questions concerned the older rituals and rites associated with girls coming of age.
I appreciated the unique approach Dr. Davison used to present the results of her research. She writes using a story form narrative in her interviews. Her presentation of background material on the government, history, and geography of Kenya is woven into the stories in a unique and entertaining way.
The subject matter of "The Ostrich Wakes" is enlightening and useful, an important addition to the studies available on the threat, prevention, and treatment of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in third world communities. It is the story of an awakening of a people from the lethargy and sense of despair. This is a book of travel, of warm stories from peoples of another culture, as well as the results of an anthropology research study.
A compelling, informative, and highly recommended history of social struggle and progress.......2007-05-13
Anthropologist, academician and lecturer Jean Davison is the founder of the `International Development and Education Association', a non-profit group dedicated to linking small communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America through developing seed funding for self-help projects with sponsoring groups in the United States and Canada. "The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles For Change In Highland Kenya" is the story of the women of Kenya who some twenty-five years ago lived under cultural, political, religious, and economic circumstances that subjected them to the devastation of female circumcision, lethal communicable diseases, forced marriages, physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis, and a lack of educational opportunities, but today are becoming educated and active in urban small businesses, seeing substantial improvements in health, and governmental laws providing them protections that include being able to reject genital cutting, refusal of marriage proposals, prosecution for rape (a practice so wide spread in Kenya that Kenyan leaders declared it as their nation's most pervasive human rights issue). A compelling, informative, and highly recommended history of social struggle and progress in Kenya, "The Ostrich Wakes" is enhanced with the inclusion of numerous notes and a glossary.
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Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia collects Mike Resnick's famous Kirinyaga stories and ties them together in a thematic arc that has novel-like continuity. The story focuses on Koriba, a mundumugu (sort of like a witch doctor and a wise man rolled into one) of the Kikuyu tribe. Koriba feels that his tribe has been corrupted by "European" technology, so he helps to establish a small, utopian planetoid named Kirinyaga where the Kikuyu can return to their roots, farming the land and worshipping the god Ngai without technological or cultural interference. As utopias go, Kirinyaga experiences its fair share of problems--both from within and without--each of which is detailed in the individual chapters and stories. The writing is not stylish but the stories are all excellent, and Resnick does a good job of integrating the traditional Kikuyu way of life into tales that any culture can appreciate. Readers looking for a novel may come away a bit disappointed because this book is really a collection of stories, but as far as collections go, few are better than Kirinyaga.
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Hailed for his grandeur of imagination and superb worldbuilding, winner of and nominee for more than fifty awards for his outstanding work, Mike Resnick has rightfully won a place as one of science fiction's master storytellers. Now, in Kirinyaga, Resnick presents the haunting and utterly compelling tale of one man's utopia.
By the twentieth second century in the African nation of Kenya, polluted cities sprawl up the flanks of sacred Mount Kirinyaga. Great animal herds are but distant memories. European crops now grow on the sweeping savannas. But Koriba, a distinguished, educated man of Kikuyu ancestry, knows that life was different for his people centuries ago--and he is determined to build a utopian colony, not on earth, but on the terraformed planetoid he proudly names Kirinyaga.
As the mundumugu--witch doctor--Koriba leads the colonists. Reinstating the ancient customs and stringent laws of the Kikuyu people, he alone decides their fate. He must face many challenges to the struggling colony's survival: from a brilliant young girl whose radiant intellect could threaten their traditional ways to the interference of "Maintenance" which holds the power to revoke the colony's charter. All the while, only Koriba--unbeknownst to his people--maintains the computer link to the rest of humanity.
Ironically, the Kirinyaga experiment threatens to collapse--not from violence or greed--but from humankind's insatiable desire for knowledge. The Kikuyu people can no more stand still in time than their planet can stop revolving around its sun.
Deeply moving, swiftly paced, and profound in its implications, Kirinyaga is Mike Resnick's most triumphant work to date. His Fable of Utopia is the book every science fiction reader will want to own and savor for years to come.
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
A novel exploring the conflict between an aboriginal people and an advanced technology. In this case, an African group, the Kikkyu, and European advanced technology.
This book looks at some stories of what happens when a group of these people are moved to live on an artificial habitat suited to them, and also of the character of their people that must have understanding of the technology while they do not.
Mixed Reaction.......2007-06-19
Overall I liked this book. I found it entertaining and though-provoking. The author notes explicitly where you should be stopping to think so you don't have to work too hard. The underlying philosophy of the book comes from Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", and those readers who are familiar with Quinn's work will get more out of it than those who aren't.
Now for some observations/criticisms:
First of all, the book fails to stop at the end. The epilogue contributes nothing at all to the story, although it does satisfy our curiosity about the fate of the narrator. I'll spoil it for you now: he never learns. Skip the epilogue; it's a waste.
Second, very little of the credit for this book can go to Resnick. As I mentioned, the philosophical underpinnings of this book are those of Daniel Quinn, and the basic premise of the narrative was issued as a challenge to the author by Orson Scott Card. Resnick's role here was not that of architect, but merely assembler of other's thoughts. The parables that the narrator/protagonist tells are very clever, and Resnick deserves credit if they are his own. However, I would be surprised if they were not traditional African fables.
My third issue is about the author's afterword, not the book itself, but it cannot be ignored. In it Resnick proclaims this book 'the most honored science-fiction book in history'. To back this up he gives an individual account of each chapter (they were originally published separately over serveral years) and the various awards. In the telling he counts 'Hugo Award winner' and 'Hugo Award nominee' as two different awards. ?? Same goes for 'Nebula nominee' and 'Nebula preliminary ballot'. Please. All this bragging simply points my attention to one fact: the book as a whole has not won any awards.
How, then can he justify his claim? It's a dubious bit of doubletalk that would be the envy of the scummiest politician. "The most honored science-fiction book in history" translates into English as, "A collection of many stories published at such a time and in such a way so as to be elligible for more award nominations than any single sci-fi book in history, and then republished as one work".
I guess his phrase just has more of a ring to it.
no science, just mediocre fiction.......2005-07-05
I bought and read this book in large part based on the reviews I had read on Amazon.com. I should have paid more attention to the negative reviews, and less to the glowingly positive ones. For one thing, I found the dialogue stilted and not believable. If the people of Koriba's tribe (group? extended family?) on Kirinyaga were all as intelligent as portrayed, it seems highly unlikely to me they ever would have signed up for the odyssey. More importantly, the "science" in this supposedly science fiction novel is pathetically weak. There is no discussion or explanation of the concept of terraforming a "planetoid." How does "Maintenance" (who are they?) manage to make incremental "orbital adjustments" so as to modify the planetoid's weather? And when Maintenance does manage to do this, what happens elsewhere on the planetoid? It was never clear whether Koriba was responsible for the entire planetoid or just one part of it. How does Koriba's computer manage to operate forever without electricity? How do spaceships manage to come zooming down to Kirinyaga so soon after an inhabitant ventures into the Haven area? Presumably this implies ships are parked in orbit very near the planetoid; isn't this so expensive as to be impossible? The list of unexplained and unbelievable technical aspects to this story is endless; basically, the reader just has to ignore all of the science issues, completely suspend disbelief, and focus solely on the basic premise of the story: the ups and downs of attempting to recreate "utopia." Even there the story does not hold together, for it begs the reader to believe there is a single definition of utopia: Koriba's definition. And that utopia cannot allow for change or development. In the end the story is little more that that of a blind, bigoted old man trying his best to force HIS personal view of what is best onto others. This book is not even close to what the author proposes in the prologue: the most honoured story in all of science fiction. It's certainly not good science fiction, and it's not even good fiction.
tedious.......2005-07-03
Resnick is a hit-and-miss author, sometimes cute, and sometimes too befuddled by his attempts to be clever and cute. His Kirinyaga series is essentially tedious, politically correct, and frequently inane. It tells the story of a tribe that revolts against modern ways. Its witch doctor delivers simplistic homilies and everyone who thinks progress should go beyond the 15th century is evidently a fool and a knave. Don't waste your time on this tedious, rather inane series.
One man's utopia is another man's failed experiment.......2005-06-14
Kirinyaga is a collection of short stories tied together in the form of a novel. A planetoid called Kirinyaga is set up as a utopia, so the Kikuyu people can live as their ancestors did before the Europeans inculcated their ideas into Kenyan culture. The driving force behind this is a man named Koriba who acts as their witch doctor/wise man. The villagers live in enough fear of him that they take his word as gospel even if in their hearts they disagree. Koriba is disingenuous however, as in his hut he has a computer which he uses to communicate with a Maintenance ship. Maintenance can change the position of the planetoid to give them the illusion of seasons or as in one story, Koriba orders Kirinyaga moved to cause a drought as punishment to the people for disobeying Kikuyu law. In the end the only person's utopia being created is Koriba's. He stifles thought and creativity, stubbornly and arrogantly forcing everyone to live by the old laws. New ideas are discouraged because that's not the traditional way and he seems surprised when people become bored and frustrated. The most emotionally compelling story is the one of a hyper intelligent young girl who when Koriba tells her he will not teach her to read because it is against Kikuyu law, she teaches herself . Then she creates her own language. He continues to stifle her and force her to live in only the ancient ways of the Kikuyu until she would rather not live at all.
Their is not a lot of style to the writing, but plenty of substance. Each story will give you a lot to think about and in that respect it is an amazing collection of work.
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Vividly engaging.......2002-09-28
When Jean Davidson went back to Kenya in 1994 to update her earlier fieldwork in the small village of Mutira, she found a culture in flux. Beset by seismic changes that rocked not only the village, but the entire country, the women she'd interviewed in for her earlier ethnographical work seemed to represent a magnified microcosm of Kenyan society as a whole, & deftly illustrated what can happen to a culture that experiences changes too large, and too quick. Wide arching changes in the political structure of the country & the ever encroaching effect of Western influence had created major holes in the fabric of the culture, doing away with old values & ethics, but replacing them with nothing. The culture Jean Davidson faithfully recorded in 1995 through her painstaking detailing of the life stories of seven rural Gikuyu women was a culture with no center of gravity, a culture that seemed on the verge of implosion. Focusing on a sample of seven, Davidson is able to identify socio-cultural factors which not only influenced the life courses of these seven individual women, but which also had a great & broad impact upon the lives of Kenyans in general. This masterfully wrought, deeply engaging ethnography, tracing the changes in the lives of these women through their own untutored testimony from 1905 through 1995, offers an engaging glimpse into another culture, which, at its most basic level, may not be so very different from our own.
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Voices from Mutira: Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women
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Facing Kirinyaga: A Social History of Forest Commons in Southern Mount Kenya
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In the Shadow of Kirinyaga: novel
Sophia Mustafa
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Mussavir, a young Asian doctor in Kenya, has joined a volunteer medical corps to serve in Ethiopia, defending itself from Mussolini's Italian army. But before he leaves, his family, the Bashirs, desire to get him engaged to Shaira, a thirteen-year-old cousin. Mussavir does not have much choice, but when the families meet, he falls in love with the intelligent and ambitious girl. The engagement takes place, Mussavir sets off for the Ethiopian front, and an unexpected fate unfolds for the young couple.
This beautiful novel reveals a rare insight into life in early colonial Kenya, from the perspective of an Asian Muslim family. The poignant story of Mussavir and Shaira, their innocence caught in the web of larger events, is sure to capture the heart.
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Romance in Kenya.......2003-05-23
This was a very lovely book about Asians Muslims in Kenya, and centred around the romance between Mussavir and Shaira. In a twist on the classic boy meets girl story, Mussavir and Shaira are brought together without much say on their parts, but end up falling in love. Distance and socio-political events conspire to keep them apart, and an unexpected fate unfolds for the couple. Mustafa is able to sustain the suspense well, and goes into much detail when describing everyday events. The colourful descriptions of festivities and food are quite wonderful, making one feel like they were right there participating in the feasts alongside the Bashirs (Mussavir's family). This was a pleasant read, and it is great to see different voices emerge into the Western literary canon.
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Kirinyaga
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Kirinyaga & One Perfect Morning, With Jackals (Tales of Kirinyaga #1)
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Book Description
There’s more to brunch than just omelettes and mimosas. Brunch can be a meal that wakes up your palate with a concordance of nuanced flavors. It can be a decadent feast worth lingering over and looking forward to all week. At Manhattan’s Five Points restaurant, chef Marc Meyer has proved this, that brunch can be an event in its own rite. He has set out to reimagine it with tempting dishes to savor and share with friends. The response has been unanimous: Five Points is one of New York City's most popular brunch spots and most coveted Sunday morning reservations. Brunch gives this special meal its full due, with more than 100 recipes for dishes that are sure to delight and inspire.
Whether you’re planning a quiet, intimate time for a couple to relax, or a lively group gathering for a shower, graduation, or holiday, there are recipes here for all occasions. You’ll learn how to turn out perfect renditions of classics with a twist such as Brown Butter Pecan Muffins, Baked Banana French Toast, and Smoked Salmon Benedict on Potato Pancakes, as well as new dishes to add to your repertory such as Churros and Mexican Hot Chocolate, Tea-Smoked Trout Salad, and Baked Eggs with Fresh Corn “Polenta” and Slow-Roasted Tomatoes.With mouthwatering photos and sections on menus and sources, Brunch is all you need to throw a stylish and sophisticated brunch.
Customer Reviews:
Treat Your Friends to a Lovely Brunch.......2006-04-09
I discovered this book from a review in Life Magazine. Brunch seemed like a lovely, civilized way to entertain, but how do you cope with cooking omelets for more than two people or getting everything fresh/warm/chilled to the table in a timely fashion?
This books answers those questions. The baked omelet cassarole sounds delish. I can even make orange marmalade (once my orange tree really gets to producing). You can buy the oranges too, if you don't have a tree.
The book also suggests themes, so you can make a party of brunch and there are even drink recipes (bloody Marys, bellinis and a blackberry-bay leaf spritzer).
Brunch made fun!.......2006-03-01
Best breakfast/brunch book I have lately read completely with excitement and anticipation for every page. The recipes are fairly easy to prepare with simple ingredients. The ricotta cheese pancakes are absolutely devine, but the waffles with rhubarb comote and whipped cream, and also the sweet potatoes hash are my favorites. The drinks are all very enticing too. Just wish I could visit the restaurant itself.
Beautiful Brunches!.......2006-02-24
The recipe for Smoked Salmon Benedict is worth the price of the book but there are so many other recipes for those of us who love to entertain and/or those of us who think Brunch is the best idea anyone ever came up with!
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