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American Western Cooking: From the Roaring Fork
Robert McGrath Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0877193509 |
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Presents a compilation of recipes that can be prepared with ease. Each recipe is explained clearly and provides a section detailing how to perform essential basics, such as smoke roasting, smoking, and grilling meat, preparing stocks, cooking dried beans, and cooking with chile peppers. Cookery, American-Western style.Customer Reviews:
Not for the casual cook.......2007-09-11
You must buy this book!.......2006-01-23
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If you like to eat, you'll love this one!.......2000-05-31
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New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur Book)
Nancy E. Richards Manufacturer: Winterthur ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0912724382 |
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An essential, up-to-date, and profusely-illustrated reference on New England's furniture industry. It comprehensively explores the furniture industry of New England, detailing the impact of urban communities, especially Boston, as well as the pervasiveness of regionalism, which has attracted fresh attention from scholars. The book presents informative essays on each furniture form (seating furniture, bedsteads, tables, stands, fire screens, dressing tables, high chests of drawers, chests of drawers, bureau tables, chests-on-chests, desks, desk-and-bookcases, looking glassses, and dressing glasses) and detailed entries on 225 individual objects.Customer Reviews:
The Best of the Best.......2005-08-13
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PATRICIA WELLS AT HOME IN PROVENCE: Recipes Inspired By Her Farmhouse In France
Patricia Wells Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0684863286 |
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Tomato clafoutis, herb-cured filet of beef Carpaccio, garlic family soup, Catalan tuna daube: these and 171 other recipes pour off the pages of this sumptuous coffee-table cookbook by the author of Bistro Cooking and Simply French. Wells concentrates on coaxing the utmost flavor out of simple, fresh food, and her French recipes are not all swimming in cream, oils, and fats: the filet, for example, profits not from a heavy sauce but from being wrapped for two days in tarragon, parsley, basil, thyme, and salt. In a couple of places Wells even commits the heresy, for a French-style chef, of switching a red wine used to simmer meat to a white wine.Book Description
For the past fifteen years, Patricia Wells has been carrying on a love affair with a region of France, a centuries-old farmhouse, and a cuisine. Provence is uniquely blessed with natural beauty as well as some of the world's most appealing foods and liveliest wines Wells's culinary skills have transformed the signature ingredients of this quintessential French countryside into recipes so satisfying and so exciting that they will instantly become part of your daily repertoire.Here are over 175 recipes from Wells's farmhouse kitchen, including whole chapters on salads, vegetables, pasta, and bread There are simple but imaginative "palate openers," such as Tuna Tapenade and Curried Zucchini Blossoms, and soul-satisfying soups, with such delights as Monkfish Bouillabaisse with Aroli, Wells's own brilliant interpretation of a Provencal classic. When it comes to meat and poultry, Wells offers earthy daubes, the slow-simmered stews so beloved by the French, and such melt-in-your-mouth delicacies as Butter-Roasted Herbed Chicken You will savor Wells's fish and shellfish creations with recipes like Seared Pancetta-Wrapped Cod. And no meal would be complete without a delight from the treasure trove of desserts here, including Cherry-Almond Tart and Winemaker's Grape Cake.
Illustrated with famed photographer Robert Fréson's captivating pictures, Patricia Wells at Home in Provence is a book you'll want to revisit time and again.
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Patricia Wells At Home In Provence.......2007-02-17
A treasure found again.......2006-01-05
It's Patricia Wells' world..........2005-04-26
Appealing to all of the senses.......2004-08-13
Rich, Rewarding Source of French / Mediteranean Recipes.......2004-03-13
Wells is high in the pantheon of distaff culinary journalist / teachers, on a par with Ann Willen and somewhat less well known than the great Julia Child and Elizabeth David. This book on `home cooking' in the Provence region of France falls, it seems, at the end of a series headed by the book `Simply French' which expounds on the cuisine of Joel Robuchon. This volume covers the high-end `haute cuisine' end of the spectrum. A recent book, `The Paris Cookbook' covers the less Olympian subject of cooking by Paris bistros, restaurants, and purveyors. This is closer to Child's classic subject, `la cuisine Bourgeoisie'. The subject of this review reflects cooking done by Wells herself in Provence, based on the influence of local sources and her own invention. It is a combination of Curnonsky's `la cuisine Regionale', and `la cuisine Improvisee'.
Since many, if not most of the insights into cooking in this book can be traced to the earlier book on Robuchon, it was harder to identify the value of this book in its own right. But, I think I can safely say that this volume stands on it's own two feet by combining the simplicity of home cooking with the healthy ingredients of the Mediterranean ingredients and the cachet of Provence, being an intersection of some of the best of both France and Italy.
My strongest visceral reaction to these recipes is the wealth of things to do with common, inexpensive ingredients such as potatoes, celery, carrots, and tomatoes. My next delight was the variety of bread recipes. The star of this act was a version of brioche that is based on olive oil rather than butter. The reputation of butter has undergone something of a revival since this book was published in 1996, but if you have gotten into the habit of looking for ways to have olive oil to replace butter, this is a recipe for you.
Like all of her other books, this volume's organization follows that most classic of orders, with chapters on:
Appetizers, Salads, Soups, Vegetables, Pasta, Bread, Fish and Shellfish, Poultry and Game, Meat, Desserts, and Pantry.
As the Wells homestead is a fair distance from the Mediterranean, the coverage of fish and shellfish is a bit light, but this shortfall is more than made up by other chapters, especially the chapters on vegetables and pasta, which broadens ones range defined by classic southern Italian cuisine. The most interesting seafood discovery is Wells' combining mint and crabmeat. My Baltimorean friends are rolling their eyes already.
The star of the chapter on meats is the daube of either beef or lamb. This is a fascinating technique with a French name which, however, seems to be characteristic of northern Europe. German dishes like sauerbraten use the daube technique, but, to my knowledge, there is no daube style dish in any Italian cuisine. A daube is basically applied to a dish that has marinated for a long time, a day or more, in a sauer medium, either wine or vinegar. Browning and braising follows the marinade. The recipe may even call for a further day's resting to mix together the flavors.
As with her other books, this volume includes recommendations for wine to serve with each savory dish. Unlike the very specific suggestions in `Simply French', these are fairly generic, simple enough for the least enlightened of liqueur store clerks to interpret. For those who live and die by the very best choices of wine, specifics are included with the general suggestions.
As books on French provincial cooking go, this book is at the opposite end of the spectrum defined by Elizabeth David's classic in that all instructions and descriptions of ingredients are detailed and crystal clear. Virtually everything in all the dishes should be available at a good urban supermarket.
My only complaint, which I bring up only because Ms. Wells is a culinary teacher as well as a journalist, is the inaccuracy of conversion between pounds and kilograms. A kilogram is 2.2 pounds, but Ms. Wells consistently treats the conversion as two (2) pounds to the kilogram. Fortunately, such approximations do not appear in the baking recipes, where she is extra contentious about the accuracy of her metric to English conversions of weights and volumes.
I strongly recommend this book to anyone who loves French or Mediterranean cuisine and who needs a new source of recipes from these sources. I strongly recommend it to anyone who loves to read about food. I recommend it to anyone who cooks. There will be several simple recipes here for inexpensive ingredients that I know you will enjoy.
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Teaching Styles and Strategies
Harvey F.; Hanson, J. Robert; Strong, Richard W.; Schwartz, Patricia B. Silver Manufacturer: Silver Strong & Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1582840024 |
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Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture (Music in American Life)
Patricia R. Schroeder Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0252029151 |
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Suddenly Robert Johnson is everywhere. Though the Mississippi bluesman died young and recorded only twenty-nine songs, the legacy, legend, and lore surrounding him continue to grow. Focusing on these developments, Patricia R. Schroeder's Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture breaks new ground in Johnson scholarship, going beyond simple or speculative biography to explore him in his larger role as a contemporary cultural icon.Part literary analysis, part cultural criticism, and part biographical study, Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture shows the Robert Johnson of today to be less a two-dimensional character fixed by the few known facts of his life than a dynamic and contested set of ideas.
Represented in novels, in plays, and even on a postage stamp, he provides inspiration for "highbrow" cultural artifacts--such as poems--as well as Hollywood movies and T-shirts. Schroeder's detailed and scholarly analysis directly engages key images and stories about Johnson (such as the Faustian crossroads exchange of his soul for guitar virtuosity), navigating the many competing interpretations that swirl around him to reveal the cultural purposes these stories and their tellers serve.
Unprecedented in both range and depth, Schroeder's work is a fascinating examination of the relationships among Johnson's life, its subsequent portrayals, and the cultural forces that drove these representations. With penetrating insights into both Johnson and the society that perpetuates him, Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture is essential reading for cultural critics and blues fans alike.
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Contemporary Interpretations of Robert Johnson.......2006-02-14
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Patricia Roberts Style
Patricia Roberts Manufacturer: W.H. Allen / Virgin Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1852270756 |
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Furniture of the New Haven Colony: The Seventeenth Century Style
Patricia E. Kane Manufacturer: New Haven Colony Historical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0943143004 |
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The Sullivan Family: 50 Years in Bluegrass Gospel Music
Enoch , Margie Sullivan , and Robert Gentry Manufacturer: Sweet Dreams Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1893693023 |
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Anri Sala: When The Night Calls It A Day
Robert Fleck , Julia Garimorth , Susanne Page , Laurence Bosse , and Anri Sala Manufacturer: Walther Konig ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3883758086 Release Date: 2004-06-15 |
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This is the first publication to thoroughly document the diverse facets of the young, Albanian-born filmmaker-artist Anri Sala's work, which, in a very short time, has evolved to occupy a very important position in contemporary art. Sala has an objective, documentary approach to filmmaking that reveals personal histories and hidden meanings through photography, video, film, and drawing, and she broaches the present-day epochal themes of migration, globalisation, and our media world. This book accompanies the Anri Sala exhibition mounted by the Musae d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ ARC and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
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Norman Lundin: A Decade of Drawing and Painting
Robert Flynn Johnson Manufacturer: Univ of Washington Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0295970499 |
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Teaching Styles and Strategies Interventions to Enrich Istructional Decision-Making
J. Robert Hanson, Richard W. Strong, Patricia B. Schwartz Harvey F. Silver Manufacturer: Silver Strong & Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LWF3RW |
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New American Furniture: The Second Generation of Studio
Edward Cooke Jr , and Edward S. Cooke Jr Manufacturer: MFA Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0878463151 Release Date: 2000-08-02 |
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"Several years ago, 26 prominent studio furniture-makers were asked to design works of furniture based on period pieces in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The result is an explosion of form and fantasy in which past and present are mergedUa celebration of the continued existence of small-scale furniture making in the midst of mass production. Among the works discussed in this lavishly illustrated book are pieces by Garry Knox Bennett, JohnCederquist, Kristina Madsen, Judy Kensley McKie, Michael Pierschalla, and Paul Sasso. In an insightful and detailed essay, author Edward Cooke Jr. contextualizes these works, outlining their complex relationship with American traditions of furniture design."
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New American Furniture the Second Generation of Studio Furnituremakers
Manufacturer: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GUVHYM |
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