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It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin....
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The Blaxploitation Movie's Daddy.......2004-07-07
Even though Mosley's popular whodunnits started taking shape in the 90's, it's easy to see that the stories he writes stemmed from a certain influence:
Shaft, maybe even Black Ceasar, et al. for the action and "givin' it to da man!" undertones. Mixed in with a little bit of "Cotton Comes to Harlem" and "Mohagany" for the occasional romance and levity. In fact, his works don't seem much different than what you would see on the 1973 big screen in a theatre packed to the back with black faces. Note the similarities...
1. You've got your classic hard brother, be he a private dick or just a good guy out to get what's coming to him. Easy, in classic Easy fashion, is a guy trying not to do what's wrong because he's seen enough of that. A hard drinker because of the pain his past has caused him, this fellow with kill only if he has to.
2. There's always the white folks who turn out to be the bad guys. They're cops or ganglords or jerks with a ton of dough. Here we have Lawrence, a tax agent who comes down on Easy because of tax evasion. Second we have Craxton, the FBI guy who wants to use Easy for his own purposes, but makes a deal with him - do my bidding and I'll chill out that tax thing. Finally, there is Officer Fine, a bit player who lusts after the cries and screams of anything black.
3. Can't forget how nobody else "understands him but his woman." And she's black, no way around that. With Easy, he's messing around with a woman who can get him killed as sure as the day is long: Mouse's wife. Now if that's not a mistake, I don't know what is. Mouse is Easy's friend, for one thing. For another, he's a cold-blooded killer. But Easy's willing to risk it all for love.
4. Must mention the white woman he cheats on her with. This is thrown in soley to annoy the white man. In 1970, this act of spite was a given. And it's in this book too.
5. Jive talk. Nothing but jive talk. It simply must be indicative of the era and this novel plays out perfectly as a piece choc full of blacks who were taught how to talk by their 1930's parents, who were taught to talk by THEIR 1900 former slave parents, who, before that, were educated in grammer and English by Africans who weren't even born here and ignorant overssers. Mosley is obviously no stranger to this snowball effect that whites have come to call "ebonics." As the credo goes, "write what you know."
6. The hard brother has to be a vigilante type. No way is he an angel. Easy has taken lives and he regrets it. He drinks like it's going out of style and he needs it. He cheats The Man out of his money to keep things balanced. He can be a sinner, but he must be able to rationalize it believably or the reader (watcher) won't sympathize with him. No problem with that here.
So yeah, it's like a blaxploitation movie with one catch: the white friend. I've never seen that in the movies, yet I've read two of Mosley's books and in both he seems to project his antagonists with an affinity for Jews, similarizing their plights in doomed histories. This approach is effective in that it shows open hearts and opened minds during an era of rampant hate. I liked this book because I could identify with many of the characters, some of whom I am ashamed to say I feel like I've known well in my lifetime. But there's just something about the story that keeps it average...
Mosley Takes a Step Back in A Good Sophomore Effort.......2003-09-14
A Red Death is not the novel Devil In A Blue Dress is, but really what could be? Mosley's style and storytelling are just as sharp, and he takes time to further develop the character of Easy Rawlins, the protagonist and narrator.
The main story of the novel is the same as Devil in a Blue Dress, Easy, a good man, comes into some trouble and has to use his wits, his fists, and his crazy friend Mouse (who conveniently has no problem with any moral questions that may arise on the streets of L.A) to get him out.
Mainly what a Red Death lacks is the tension, the overbearing sense of danger that hangs over every page of his first novel. The classic mystery elements of the plot are niether as complex nor are they as well defined as in Blue Dress. Too many details of the mystery are kept from the reader, therefore the audience is not as engaged during the story and not as satisfied with the resolution. These little disappointments however, will not keep me from following Easy Rawlins in White Butterfly!
Rawlings is weird.......2002-08-02
This is the second Easy Rwalings book, a series by Walter Mosley.
It's a short and fast-paced book, easy to read. There are two problems with Easy Rawlings, though. As happens with all Mosley books, the plots are kind of misty, you just don't know for sure what Rawlings must do or discover through the story. Other thing I find extremely annoying is that, except Rawlings, other characters are completely undeveloped, they're just names thrown into the story, making it a little confusing, you almost never know who is who and what part they seem to take in the plot.
Easy Rawlings is a funny character, though a little too stupid. He acts before he thinks. Mosley thinks this is a means to provide action in the book and it works well, but I thought Easy was rather obtuse sometimes. But maybe Mosley just wanted to create a story as close to reality as possible. As in "Devil in a blue dress", the most interesting character is Mouse, Easy's friend, a murderer without scruples, who should get a book of his own.
I'll give a try to "White Butterfly", the next book in the series.
Grade 7.3/10
Average and ordinary mystery.......2002-01-24
People say that Mosley's characters are full of depth, but I'd have to disagree. It's a conventional mystery with the everyday mystery characters: good guy, bad guy, guy you're not too sure about, and a chaotic mess of characters indifferent to the plot who are only there to create a disturbance. It was supposed to be set in the 50's, but there was a great lack of signs that it was in the 50's, and the few signs that were there felt thrown in--an oh-by-the-way.
The characters seem written from a story workshop approach, rather than by a writer who feels the character. A separation between feeling a character and describing a character.
Some say there are layers and layers to this novel. A pineapple has layers and layers. Anything can be interpreted, now whether or not it asks to be interpreted is something different. Interpret James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, what a baby wants when it cries: these are valid. Interpreting for the sake of interpreting is just what it is.
It is an easy read, perfect for when the mind doesn't want for much thought; for example, read it on the bus or in the car while driving to here and there.
Exceptional novel.......2001-07-01
I'm not quite sure if this novel qualifies entirely as a mystery novel because there are so many layers that permeate the book, envelop the senses and relate to the reader about another world that sits on the fringes of everyday African-American reality. There is within thsi book something that can only be compared to the U.S. discovering a Nazi secret decoding book. There is a cadence, a language, a knowledge that is carried within Africanist people, thrugh the neighborhoods, the folks that live in them that is apparent here. That's very, very hard to translate adequately on to paper, to reveal that code, bare it to the light of publication and yet in many ways still keep it private. Easy Rawlins is more complicated than simply being a good man. He's a bit of a tortured man, wanting his best friends woman and child as his own, risking death to be with them and then still remaining loyal to his insane friend Mouse and telling him where they are. Problem #1. Problem #2 Another insane man, an IRS man who is after Easy for not paying his taxes and who challenges Easy as at face value, the color of his skin not realizing that Easy will kill him, wants to kill him and is only stopped by a meeting with Problem #3---an insane FBI agent who wants Eays to infiltrate a Baptyist church to root out communists. Of course Easy knows that communism is the scapegoat for the ol' okey-doke but he's in a terrible spot and getting more and more desperate. Usually half way through a book you can see where it's going, who has to die, who the killer is, even why the killer did something but Mosley turns this around into something that chugs the mystery along but makes it secondary to whatever is goign on in Easy's life. Every thing has a freenzy, a desperation in Easy's life---love, sex, money but he's trapped by what color he is and where he's comfortable. I read this book in a night and felt a nice comfort in its' embrace, its' soft language and hard people. People who drift in and out of the story, some mattering, some not but all the same all of them are watching Easy, some with love, most not. I don't know if this can be seen as the best book from a series and I don't even know if a series can be seen from these books---they stand on their own but shoudl be read one right after the other. I'm jumping all over the Easy map now but the one thing I can say is that I met Mr. Mosley, I wa swalking with a friend and he wa sstanding by a tree in the Village, and right before we got close enough to speak with shared a glance, a look that communicated so much, as much as Easy does in and more about what it is to be an African-American man simply being, how trouble gonna come for you and your choices are face it, run, kill it or be killed. Not too many books teach aabout manhood, African-American manhood so deftly. Buy the book, send it to a friend, not all of them will get it but then tell them that this is why African-American strangers nod, say hello to each other---we all know the code.
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Blood Electric
Kenji Siratori
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A fatal collusion of drag embryos and DNA angels in Cadaver City ignites the circuitry of the ADAM Doll... dogs of zero waging gene war in Placenta World, chaos unleashed by the digital vampires of Sato Corporation, nano-junk virus pandemic.
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Blood Electric is a devastating loop of language from the Tokyo avant-garde, with stylistic experimentation akin to Artaud or Burroughs, but embracing the image mayhem of the internet / multimedia / digital age. Kenji Siratori comes from within the history of radical literature, but his youth, cultural context, and understanding of the futurity of digital technologies positions him as the herald of a new literary dawn.
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neuro-programmer.......2006-01-18
The cyberpunk Japanese writer Kenji Siratori perhaps pioneered a movement among all non-English speaking writers. For his neuro/cyber-punk projects, this transition from Japanese - as a radically different language - to English is without exaggeration similar to translating a violent and fully Japanese videogame (including its machine codes, bugs, and repetitive architectures) to literature, the English literature. His techno-vortical texts similar to the most cryptogenic progressive writings exhume utterly original processes of text-composing but unlike other engineers of such texts whose economy of their writings is secured within the organic body of spectacular interwoven plots or critico-manic's verbigerations about the Text itself, his writings deliberately, encipher (hollows out) a new artificial wiremesh on and through which the text is non-wovenly rendered, convoluted and recomposed continuously. One can regard Kenji Siratori as a mech-warrior, a neuro-programmer.
ABSOLUTELY AWFUL.......2006-01-11
This book is AWFUL! I do NOT recommend it. [...]
This book is unequivocally unintelligible. I am not trying to say the writer's ability to convey a story is terrible, what I am trying to say, it is not in any comprehensible form that is able to keep the reader's attention. This book is written (purposely) in irregular English that has been
1) translated from the original Japanese by a computer (as a Japanese to English translator, I know when a document has been translated by a machine, and this book clearly has been), and
2) written with a mixture of the English language and HMTL markup language.
These elements are confusing, making it extremely hard to follow any kind of story that may be hidden in the text.
Yes, this may sound like an extremely interesting premise. I thought so too. But I cannot warn readers enough: YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENJOY THIS BOOK! AT THE VERY MOST YOU WILL STRUGGLE TO EVEN COMPREHEND THE MOST SIMPLEST OF MEANINGS!
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Machine code japan to nelgish translation.......2004-09-19
Like technological spasm, a bio-electronical deflation. Like mind hallucinations caused by diasepam, but clear as a dew-drop on an urban balcony. Kenji Sirator's Blood Electric surfs on the edge of genetic memmory recorded 24 years ago.
Kenji (Siratori) is expressible on modern self science. The meeting of technological karma with genome replication in enviorment of self-transmitting clouds, the insemination of cyber reality into natural reality caused this semi-conductive latest-generation expose.
The books is written in a code-seuqence of feelings-productive scripts and informational griffs wrapped in sense. The cyberpunk mutation, the inner rebel of the one and the mass - a natural envenom caused by pollution, microwave and radio distortion. Electric pulsation, air dense - Kenji caught it all in a preserved caul readable by microscope.
Fast city running, people - cyborgs. Lonelyness, a fight against mass-optimisation, an inner flow on a pathway to salvation, an escape trough the gratings of electronical frontiers and artificial borders.
hype hype and hype.......2004-07-22
i got 26 pages into this and realized i could basically page through this randomly and get the same effect - i got this because it got comparisons to burroughs and even finnegan's wake
not
a
chance
the over over over repetition combined with the lack of anything remotely cohesive gets tedious real fast
dog boyroid blood flesh slash slash equals colon i commit suicide she commits suicide i rape blah blah blah
boooooring
i wanted to have my mind blown
i can make my own cut ups
i know how to use excel and the word replace function
this amused me for about a page and a half
i spent the last 20+ pages reading only to justify my financial investment
cutting edge? get over it - pretense = pretense
buy yourself a hit of blotter and save 5 bucks
Singing the blood electric.......2004-06-21
Siratori is a startling, indelible writer. It is useless to come to Blood Electric with anything but shock, and awe, as expected responses. The text displays a futuristic nihilism and abject strategy similar to the work of the Japanese "cyber-flesh" school of cinema. This is hardwired, hardcore linguistic experiment gone wild: a Doctor Octopus of tentacled text, refering to the infinite nothing that is the everything digital. For readers who want to know what one version (perhaps the least utopian) of the future will be like, this is your machine to get there. Forget the bland sweetness of "Lost In Translation" - Japanese culture is far less accessible than you might think. Siratori is the Time Out guide to depleted sanity in a world gone amok.
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, General Electric (using Thomas Edison's direct current) and Westinghouse (employing Nikola Tesla's groundbreaking alternating current) were locked in combat to determine which would dominate the technological fate of the nation. Electricity was thought to be a highly ambiguous force: both godlike creative power and demonic destroyer of life. Metzger argues that for scientists of the day, as well as the general populace, the electric chair was both harbinger and early pinnacle of modernity, the high altar of the rising cult of progress. In the popular imagination, Tesla and Edison were seen as nearly superhuman beings, and their struggle was not only for wealth and power, but to reshape the face of America. In Blood and Volts, Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling and cultural critique to present a clear and compelling story of America struggling to define itself through scientific innovation.
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An insightful work that explains the electric chair enigma........1998-05-08
The historical development and use of the electric chair is a subject represented by only a handful of academic (or at least accurate) books. If you read only one, make it Blood and Volts.
Metzger must be congratulated for not simply pandering to the morbidly curious. Sure, there's a lot of gory detail -- necessary in describing such a technological enigma as the electric chair -- but Metzger moves beyond this. He gives us an uncannilly lucid view of the society, the people, and the politics that spawned the electric chair. He shows us not only the self-congratulatory PR of the day, but also the soul-searching criticism leveled at the electric chair by scientists, doctors, and the popular press. We assume that capital punishment advocates all hailed this new "scientific" method of killing. Not so, as Metzger shows us. After learning of the actual results of its use, many seriously proposed a return to hanging as more humane.
It takes much to explain a period of history in which most homes (and prisons) were lit by kerosene lamps, yet prisoners were executed by technology so exotic that experts had to be shipped in just to operate it (as the author points out, no one ever knew how much voltage or current actually killed the first victim of the chair, and the duration of shocks to be given had to be "guessed-at" by two physicians minutes before the execution).
If you want to truly understand how the electric chair came about, and why it remains today, Blood and Volts is a good place to start.
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Wolf Girl Timberwolf Blood
Kimberly Leslie
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The woods called her, daring her to enter. She walked closer as if under a heavy spell. She suddenly felt ill. She dropped to her hands and knees and couldn't stop her body from shaking, from convulsing, from changing. Changing to...a wolf. Was what happened last night a dream? Did I really change into... “No way! I had fur and four legs and a damn tail.” She opened her eyes, quietly talking to herself.
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The woods called her, daring her to enter. She walked closer as if under a heavy spell. She suddenly felt ill. She dropped to her hands and knees and couldn't stop her body from shaking, from convulsing, from changing. Changing to...a wolf. Was what happened last night a dream? Did I really change into... "No way! I had fur and four legs and a damn tail." She opened her eyes, quietly talking to herself.
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This digital document is a journal article from Forensic Science International, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Repeated exposure to electro-muscular incapacitating devices could result in repetitive, sustained muscle contraction, with little or no muscle recovery period. Therefore, rhabdomyolysis and other physiological responses, including acidosis, hyperkalaemia, and altered levels of muscle enzymes in the blood, would be likely to occur. Experiments were performed to investigate effects of repeated exposures of TASER^(R) International's Advanced TASER^(R) X26 on muscle contraction and resultant changes in blood factors in an anaesthetized swine model. A total of 10 animals were used. Six swine were exposed for 5s, followed by a 5-s period of no exposure, repeatedly for 3min. (In five of the animals, after a 1-h delay, a second 3-min exposure period was added.) The remaining four animals were used for an additional pilot study. All four limbs of each animal exhibited contraction even though the electrodes were positioned in areas at some distances from the limbs. The degree of muscle contraction generated during the second exposure period was significantly lower than that in the first exposure series. This finding was consistent with previous studies showing that prolonged activity in skeletal muscle will eventually result in a decline of force production. There were some similarities in blood sample changes in the current experiments with previous studies of muscular exercise. Thus problems concerning biological effects of repeated TASER exposures may be related, not directly to the ''electric output'' per se, but rather to the resulting contraction of muscles (and related interruption of respiration) and subsequent sequelae. Transient increases in hematocrit, potassium, and sodium were consistent with previous reports in the literature dealing with studies of muscle stimulation or exercise. It is doubtful that these short-term elevations would have any serious health consequences in a healthy individual. Blood pH was significantly decreased for 1h following exposure, but subsequently returned toward a normal level. Leg muscle contractions and decreases in respiration each appeared to contribute to the acidosis. Lactate was highly elevated, with a slow return (time course greater than 1h) to baseline. Other investigators have reported profound metabolic acidosis during restraint-associated cardiac arrest. Since restraint often occurs immediately after TASER exposure, this issue should be considered in further development of deployment concepts. On the basis of the results of the current studies, the repeated use of electro-muscular incapacitating devices in a short period of time is, at least, feasible, with the caveat that some medical monitoring of subjects may be required (to observe factors such as lactate and acidosis).
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Title: Echo to Rule Out Clot Aids Cardioversion.(transesophageal echocardiography can detect blood clots in patients with atrial fibrillation before they are defibrillated)
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Date: July 15, 2001
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Title: Little-known company plans major product launch: legislation allows for facility to train San Diego's future biotech work force.(Biotech)(new wireless system will monitor blood and other health care items)
Author: Marion Webb
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Volume: 24
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Title: OMRON Digital Thermometer Wins iF Product Design Gold Award; HEM-1010-E Blood Pressure Monitor Also Recognized.
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Title: PAH-DNA adducts in cord blood and fetal and child development in a Chinese cohort.(Children's Health)
Author: Deliang Tang
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The choice is yours: You can add forty or more vigorous, fulfilling years to your life. It sounds like science fiction, but in fact it’s cutting-edge science grounded in exciting new research. In The Metabolic Plan, internationally renowned biochemist Stephen Cherniske reveals the medical breakthroughs that enable all of us to extend our lives—and the quality of our lives—starting today.
Far from giving out due to inevitable wear and tear, the human body is naturally endowed with astonishing powers of renewal, self-repair, and regeneration. The secret to unlocking these powers lies not in genetic tinkering or a high-tech fix but in “tricking” your body into adopting the metabolism of a twenty-year-old. The Metabolic Plan offers a comprehensive diet and exercise regimen specifically tailored to boost antioxidant levels, combat disease, increase muscle, reduce fat, and enhance memory and vision. Cherniske shares the age-defying properties of such cutting-edge supplements as 7-Keto and debunks myths about acid/alkaline foods. Here too are detailed metabolic plans geared to the different needs of men and women and to every decade of our lives—so we’ll know exactly what to focus on when.
Longer life, more energy, improved health, a pervasive sense of well-being: It’s all within our grasp. At once revolutionary and eminently practical, this is the book that finally solves the puzzle of aging.
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Some great information but missing some important health info.......2007-08-16
I really give it 3 1/2 stars, but that's not an option.
There were many things I thought were well-done in this book. Cherniske has a conversational writing tone, so it's a fun read. There's alot of useful health information on diet, lifestyle, medical tests, supplements, etc.
This book overall seems to be addressed only at people whose health is declining due to poor diet, exercise, age, lifestyle, lack of vitamins, etc. The biggest thing missing is that there is no mention of food intolerances/allergies, which are quite common and can contribute to mysteriously declining health! In a book that was meant to be a comprehensive guide to staying younger longer, I would expect to find a Chapter on this, or at least a page! But it isn't even mentioned in the Nutritional chapter. So you could follow Cherniske's plan but if you have an underlying health issue, you'll still feel unwell.
My advice - declining health even though you "eat well," exercise, and sleep plenty? Make sure you don't have food allergies/intolerances or some other type of chronic issue that won't go away with exercise and supplements.
the ultimate understanding of nutrition and aging.......2007-02-11
I have met the author. He walks the talk. He is late fifties and his medical tests are that of a college student. He is vibrant, funny, and extremely intelligent. I have bought several copies of this book to give away. Aging doesn't have to be a mystery or a drag. It can slow down enough to enjoy and still be mentally, physically and spiritually fit.
Opens your eyes to the potential.......2007-01-28
This book is "ok" in the sense that it opens your eyes to the potential that everyone has for deferring and reversing the aging process.
Its message can be summarised as "eat lots of varied foods, with emphasis on a few 'super foods', avoid stress, exercise a bit and take DHEA"
*** BE WARNED ***
If you live outside of the US, taking DHEA might not be possible. For example, I live in Australia - here DHEA is classified as an anabolic steroid and banned. You can't buy it (other than a diluted tablet that contains virtually zero) and if you import it without a license you can be prosecuted. So there goes a large part of this book's message down the drain.
Also, I'm not too convinced by the exercise programs layed out in the book - I think they are too mild... but if your older or particularly out of shape, then they are a heck of a lot better than nothing.
If I could buy DHEA and it did everything Stephen claimed, I would have given 5 stars. Since I can't, I awarded 3 stars.
Aging Gracefully.......2007-01-09
Cherniske is a biochemist who writes in a clear easy-to-understand way. The metabolic plan explains the aging process and what you can do the improve your experience. He explains how you can take control and keep your body performing as a young, healthy, vibrant person. It is truly a wealth of information
It's a must read for anyone wanting to take control of how their body ages.
Understanding and maximizing the life experience!.......2006-11-14
Everyone, but especially baby-boomers will benefit immensely from the scientific and fact-based information presented in lay terms that are easily understood. What is happening to our bodies as we age, why we are more succeptable to a variety of maladies as we age, why is exercise so difficult when we all rationally know that it's good for us; all these are answered in clear language as well as much more. This book explains how we can take control of our health without the use of pharmaceuticals and all their damaging side-effects. Eyeopening and guaranteed to improve the quality of life for all it's readers.
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"Food cooked in the fireplace tastes better than food cooked in most conventional methods today," say the authors and this book shows how twenty-first century folks can enjoy hearth-cooked meals today. Surprisingly few pieces of special equipment are needed, especially for camping families. The authors emphasize the appliances and techniques that make open-hearth cooking realistic in today's homes where the fireplace is not in the kitchen.
The authors explain the art of building a good cooking fire and maintaining the three basic temperatures - low, medium and high - needed to prepare almost all foods, and suggest ways to keep the hearth clean and the cook safe. Each chapter on technique tells how things were done in the old days, and then goes on to demonstrate techniques for today. The authors have added substantial new material since original publication in 1982, and completely updated the resources section of the book.
Suzanne Goldenson and her husband are serious cooks and collectors of early American cooking implements. Doris Simpson is co-owner of a restaurant and once helped cook a Thanksgiving dinner over an open hearth for Craig Claiborne.
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An interesting collection of recipes drawn from the early times and kitchens of America.......2006-04-03
The Open-Hearth Cookbook: Recapturing The Flavor Of Early America by Suzanne Goldenson and Doris Simpson is an interesting (and even inspiring!) collection of recipes drawn from the early times and kitchens of America. From Cornmeal Biscuits; Soft Gingerbread; and Pumpkin Pudding, to Wild Blueberry Tart; Oatmeal Cinnamon Bread; and Green Lip Mussel Stew, The Open-Hearth Cookbook reinvents the ideals of nostalgic cooking, educating the reader of how to use roast, toast, bake, broil and more with such devices as dutch ovens, fireplaces, waffle irons and many more, as well as the proper wood to use in particular procedures. From first page to last, The Open-Hearth Cookbook is increasingly informative for all readers interested in age-old cookery practice, as well as those merely intrigued by historical innovation in the culinary field of American culture.
Passion of Open-hearth Cooking.......2006-02-27
This book gives very useful tips in cooking itself. There are a variety of recipes. I have made some of them already and the taste is fantastic. Please keep finding those old recipes and converting them to correct measurements. Thank you again for a wonderful cookbook. I have your other book as well. I do open-hearth demonstrating at a farm museum and the other artisians look the meals.
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- ABC's of Architectural and Interior Design Drafting with an Introduction to AutoCAD 2000
- Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright's Romance With Nature
- The ugly duchess
White Butterfly
Black Betty : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green"
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
A Little Yellow Dog : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gray-Eyed Death"
Gone Fishin': Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Smoke" (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
