Marketplace Books Cooking Texas Style: Traditional Recipes from the Lone Star State
Author: Candy Wagner, Sandra MarquezJust remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth watering. And since remembering is no substitute for eating, cooks across the country have turned to Cooking Texas Style to find recipes for the comfort foods we love best. Thirty years after its first publication, popular acclaim has made this collection of favorite family recipes the standard source for traditional Texas cooking.Here are over three hundred tasty recipes from the kitchens of Candy Wagner and Sandra Marquez. You'll find classic Texas dishes such as chicken-fried steak, barbecue, chili, guacamole, and cornbread hot with jalapeños, as well as novel, exciting ways to prepare old favorites such as Tortilla Soup, Fajitas, and Chicken and Dumplings. Organized for easy reference, all the recipes are clearly explained, simple to prepare, and simply delicious. Cooking Texas Style is an invaluable addition to the kitchen bookshelf of anyone interested in cooking--and eating--Texas style.About the AuthorCANDY WAGNER and SANDRA MARQUEZSisters Candy Wagner and Sandra Marquez are sixth-generation Texans who trace their ancestry back to John Coker, a scout in the Battle of San Jacinto, and to the German pioneers who first settled New Braunfels.
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Marketplace Books Creole Calas Criers
Author: Lurlene BowdenAlong the streets today in New Orleans, Louisiana, walking upon the, weathered, WELL-traveled cobblestones, surrounded by the, enclosing, brick townhouses exploiting their French architecture and decoration in the Black, wrought iron gates, windows, and balconies, one can feel "danger in the air" blended with the delightful aroma of fried Pastries, Seafood, laughter, fun, loud bands, music, and different cultures and nationalities of people/visitors, as well as, the faint cry of the "Street Siren from the Sea"... "B-E-L-L-E...T-A-U-T...C-H-A-U-D!" This illustrious port city, during the antebellum South's Empire in international trade, commerce, and Cotton crops, murder, intrigue, crime, social extravagance, and extreme wealth, was sentenced with the verdict that "Hung over" its corrupted, Man Infested, Destiny!" Spanish and French Royalty, immigrants, nations, principalities, privateers, buccaneers, ladies of the evening, and, "a den of thieves," pirates, roamed the market place, daily, in search of money and lots of it. New Orleans was the capital of the Americas and the "heartbeat" of the world's economy. Slavery, legal and illegal gambling of Large, sums of money, products, and Large, plantations of land, and, a Civil and Political War, were to fall, as Rome... "The glorious SOUTH, polluted from within." Enjoy her memories of a time lost, as you bake these Recipes in your kitchen from the CREOLE/CAJUN lifestyle, YOU requested.
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Marketplace Books A Bite of Arkansas: A Cookbook of Natural State Delights
Author: Kat RobinsonIf we are what we eat, Kat Robinson is made of Arkansas cuisine. The food historian, travel writer and TV host has spent a lifetime within The Natural State's borders, from toddlerhood to teenage years to adult traveler and explorer. Now the author of Arkansas Food: The A to Z of Eating in The Natural State sits down with memories, recollections and ingredients to craft the dishes of her life.Enjoy this volume of dishes from every era of Robinson's life, from country breakfasts to humble desserts, wild game tometropolitan appetizers, stews, casseroles and so many pies. Dig into Arkansas favorites such as beans and cornbread, fried chicken, catfish dinners and pot roast.This gorgeously photographed collection of more than 140 authentic, made and shared culinary items are beautifully paired with stories from this Arkansas woman's life, an insight into the dishes that inspired her to document and share a rich and diverse food history of an entire state.About the AuthorRobinson, Kat: - Kat Robinson is Arkansas's food historian and most enthusiastic road warrior. The Little Rock-based author is the host of the Emmy-nominated documentary Make Room For Pie; A Delicious Slice of The Natural State and the Arkansas PBS show Home Cooking with Kat and Friends. She is a member of the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame committee, a co-chair of the Arkansas Pie Festival, and the Arkansas fellow to the National Food and Beverage Museum. She has written nine books on food, most notably Arkansas Food: The A to Z of Eating in The Natural State, an alphabetic guide to the dishes, delights and food traditions that define her home state. Her two most recent travel guides, 101 Things to Eat in Arkansas Before You Die and 102 More Things to Eat in Arkansas Before You Die define the state's most iconic and trusted eateries. Robinson's Another Slice of Arkansas Pie: A Guide to the Best Restaurants, Bakeries, Truck Stops and Food Trucks for Delectable Bites in The Natural State outlines more than 400 places to find the dessert, an extraordinary accomplishment that took thousands of miles, hundreds of hours and so many bites to properly document and catalogue. In this book, Robinson shares recipes from her own kitchen, alongside stories from her lifelong adventures in Arkansas. The book is her first state-specific cookbook. In 2020, she edited and contribut- ed to 43 Tables: An Internet Community Cooks During Quarantine, a Kat Robinson collection of recipes from social media connected friends who turned to their kitchens to experiment and to feed their families during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic response. Her previous books include the popular Arkansas Pie: A Delicious Slice of the Natural State (2012), Classic Eateries of the Ozarks and Arkansas River Valley (2013), and Classic Eateries of the Arkansas Delta (2014). Robinson has also served as guest editor for the University of Arkansas publication Arkansauce: The Journal of Arkansas Foodways, and was recognized as the 2011 Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Henry Award winner for Media Support. Her work has appeared in regional and national publications including Food Network, Forbes Travel Guide, Serious Eats, and AAA Magazines, among others. Her expertise in food research and Arkansas restaurants has been cited by Saveur, Eater, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Outline, and the Southern Foodways Alliance's Gravy podcast, and her skills and talents have been celebrated in articles by Arkansas Good Roads, Arkansas Business and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. She has served as the keynote speaker for the South Arkansas Literary Festival and has spoken before the Arkansas Library Association and at the Six Bridges Literary Festival, Eureka Springs Books in Bloom and the Fayetteville True Lit Festival. While she writes on food and travel subjects throughout the United States, she is best known for her ever-expanding knowledge of Arkansas food history and restaurant culture, all of which she explores on her 1200+ article website, TieDyeTravels.com. She is also the host of the podcast Kat Robinson's Arkansas. Robinson's journeys across Arkansas have earned her the title road warrior, traveling pie lady, and probably some minor epithets. Few have spent as much time exploring The Natural State, or researching its cuisine. The Girl in the Hat has been sighted in every one of Arkansas's 75 counties, oftentimes sliding behind a menu or peeking into a kitchen. Before entering full time into the world of food and travel writing, Kat was a television producer at Little Rock CBS affiliate THV and Jonesboro ABC affiliate KAIT, as well as a radio producer and personality for KARN Newsradio. Kat lives with daughter Hunter and partner Grav Weldon in Little Rock.
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Marketplace Books 30-A Supper Club
Author: Liza ElliottCounty Road 30-A, a coastline road in the Florida panhandle, meanders parallel to the most beautiful beach in the world. It is here, sociologist, Harley McBride, unexpectedly finds a gold coin washed up on the beach. Her quest to identify it leads her into a murky world where her longtime friends and members of the 30-A Supper Club protect deep family secrets dating back to the Civil War. Thus begins an intricate pursuit for the true meaning of the coin. Harley's friendships and sociological sleuthing skills are tested as each menu and location of the monthly Supper Club draws her incrementally closer to fraud, illicit affairs and murder within the ranks of the club. Ultimately the revelation of the coin's meaning and unholy source exposes the most astonishing Confederate family secret of them all.
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Marketplace Books Great Chefs of the South: From the Television Series Great Chefs of the South
Author: Marlene Osteen, Cumberland House PublishingYou'll find it simple to add the flavors of the Old -- and New -- South with the step-by-step instructions designed for the home kitchen. Recipes from the Great Chefs in Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Charleston, Memphis, Birmingham, Orlando, Louisville, New Orleans, Savannah, Pawleys Island, Nashville, Amelia Island, Durham, and 16 other Southern cities in 9 states.
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Marketplace Books Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood
Author: Luann LandonBack when people spent their whole lives in one place, life was all about family and family rituals. It was about the whole clan gathering at dinnertime over meals to be remembered forever. Luann Landon's cookbook/memoir transports us to that world of formal midday dinners, closely guarded recipes, and competitive cooks. Dinner at Miss Lady's takes us back there through the memories, meals, and recipes of one Southern family. Landon recreates the old Southern way of life in comic and tender anecdotes--from the near disaster of losing the tiny dinner bell to revenge exacted by giving the wrong recipe for a cake. This is the world of Landon's extended family: the glamorous and indolent Aunt Clare; the industrious, proud grandmother Murlo; the other grandmother, spoiled, indulgent Miss Lady and her good-humored husband, Judge; and most important, Henretta, the protective cook, able to mend family battles with a perfect blackberry-rhubarb cobbler. Adding to the vividness of this memoir are menus from those memorable meals, including birthday dinners, homecoming feasts, graduation celebrations, and sumptuous spring and fall parties. Landon shares detailed recipes for over sixty heirloom dishes: Cousin Catherine's Chicken Vermouth with Walnuts and Green Grapes, Beets in Orange and Ginger Sauce, Tennessee Jam Cake, Caramel Ice Cream. A rich portrait of a life almost lost to us, Dinner at Miss Lady's is a memoir cooked to perfection, one to savor both for its stories and for its food.About the AuthorLandon, Luann: - Luann Landon grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and spent every summer until she left for college in the small town of Greensboro, Georgia, with her extended family. She studied literature at Radcliffe, and has lived since then in France and Nashville. She taught French at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville and has won prizes in various poetry competitions. She lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with her husband.
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Marketplace Books Gottlieb's Bakery: Savannah's Sweetest Tradition
Author: Isser GottliebIn 1884, in the basement of a building on the corner of York and Jefferson Streets, something miraculous was happening. Jewish Russian immigrant Isadore Gottlieb had built a bakery that would soon be renowned in Savannah for every tasty morsel pulled from its busy oven, creating the perfect combination of southern and Jewish delicacies. Goods were delivered to citizens and stores by cart, pulled by a horse that knew every stop along the way, cementing the bakery's reputation as a true neighborhood operation. From shiny, egg-brushed challah to Sister Sadie's hazelnut cake to the ever-popular chocolate chewies, customers would crowd the store for a single irresistible bite. Join the next generation of Gottliebs as they recount the heartwarming stories and recipes that forever preserve the bakery's place in Savannah's history.
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Marketplace Books The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink
Author: Eugene WalterA southern Renaissance man, Eugene Walter (1921-1998) was a pioneering food writer, a champion of southern foodways and culture, and a legendary personality among food lovers. The Happy Table of Eugene Walter, which introduces a new generation of readers to Walter's culinary legacy, is a revelation to anyone interested in today's booming scene in vintage and artisanal drinks--from bourbon and juleps to champagne and punch--and a southern twist on America's culinary heritage.Assembled and edited by Walter's literary executor, Donald Goodman, and food writer Thomas Head, this charming cookbook includes more than 300 recipes featuring the use of spirits in the food and drink of the South, as well as numerous asides, lovely short essays, and countless witticisms that make for great reading as well as good cooking. A wellspring of southern eating and drinking traditions lovingly collected by Walter over the years, the volume is also a celebration of Walter himself and his incomparable appetite and talent for life and its surprising pleasures. The Happy Table showcases Walter's remarkably contemporary gustatory sensibilities and the humorous and quirky yet incisive voice for which he has long been embraced. About the AuthorWalter, Eugene: - Eugene Walter (1921-98), a native of Mobile, Alabama, and author of the classic American Cooking: Southern Style, was a pioneering food writer and editor who enjoyed long sojourns in New York, Rome, and Paris when he wasn't at home in the South. A translator, screenwriter, novelist, puppeteer, artist, costume designer, actor, and more, Walter was a man of arts, letters, and food. The Happy Table of Eugene Walter, a cookbook that Walter was working on in the final years of his life, is the first new book by Walter to appear in more than a decade.
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Marketplace Books Zesty Tastes from South Florida
Author: Greg MartinZESTY TASTES FROM SOUTH FLORIDA The purpose of this book is to give you fresh ideas for great meals. The step by step cooking instructions are all tested and true. Of course any cook can deviate from the mentioned ingredients and methods. The real basis for any recipe is that one good ingredient or taste, mixed with any other will taste good together. This book features many tropical favorites with the freshest of ingredients. We always keep in mind that no one ever wants to burn Garlic because it develops a very bitter taste. A few of our recipes were sent to us by fire departments around the country and some by readers of our daily blog, Beach Zest.com In each case we copied them as submitted without any revisions. Should you have any questions or comments, please contact us at Beach Zest.com
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Marketplace Books Fixin' to Eat: Southern Cooking for the Southern at Heart
Author: Katie MosemanTo be "fixing to" means that you're planning to do something. For Southerners, "fixing to" isn't just an interesting turn of phrase--it's a whole state of mind. Others might say they're about to eat, but Southerners say they're fixin' to eat. Whether you're new to Southern cookery, or just looking for new inspiration, this bounty of homestyle recipes from breakfast to dessert (and every meal in between) is sure to make your mouth water. Between courses, "Libation Lessons" will show you how to pair Southern food with your favorite beer, wine, and spirits. Add a little bit of love--the secret ingredient that makes good food great--and you'll be Fixin' to Eat Recipes include: Buttermilk Drop Biscuits Cornmeal Gravy Fresh Strawberry Cream Cheese Sweet Potato Muffins Buttermilk Pancakes and Cinnamon Infused Maple Syrup Citrus Pecan Quick Bread Pimento Cheese Stuffed Peppers Grilled BLT Potato Salad Stacks Honey Berry Blue Cheese Ball Coca-Cola Salad Tarragon Goat Cheese Deviled Eggs Cream Cheese and Pimento Pepper Stuffed Celery Iceberg Wedge Salad Buttermilk Dressing Croutons Everything Cream Cheese Balls Turnip Green Soup Kentucky Hot Brown Ham Sliders Baked Pecan Chicken Nuggets with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce Pimento Cheeseburger Muffuletta Sandwiches Honey Cola Ham Crispy Fish Sticks with Spicy Tartar Sauce Prime Rib Roast Chicken Salad Slow Cooker Pork Barbecue Sandwiches Creole Beef Tenderloin Salmon Patties Apple Cider Pork Roast Tuna Salad Sandwiches Grilled Pimento Cheese Sandwiches Squash Casserole Baked Beans with Bacon Creamy Coleslaw Sweet Cornbread Creole Spiced Potato Bake Ham and Macaroni Salad Boiled Corn on the Cob Chow Chow Relish Fried Okra Black-Eyed Peas Broccoli Casserole Succotash Collard Greens Orange Cranberry Sauce Blackberry Crumble Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Ice Cream Bourbon White Chocolate Brownies Traditional Bread Pudding Apricot Hand Pies Crustless Pumpkin Pie with Orange Flavored Whipped Cream The Perfect Brownies Butterscotch Pudding Apple Dumplings Oven Baked S'Mores Upside Down Peach Bread Pudding Self-Crust Coconut Pie Spiced Pecans Bourbon Honey Milk
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Marketplace Books Dinner at the Mansion
Author: Elise V. WinterIn DINNER AT THE MANSION, Elise Winter, wife of former Governor William Winter, tells how she set out to make the venerable mansion, built in 1842, both a home for her family and a center for the cultural life of the state. By bringing performing artists, writers, statesmen and successful business executives to the mansion, often as overnight guests, Mrs. Winter made the governor's mansion a showcase for Mississippi. Includes menus and recipes; conversations with distinguished guests; 160 pages; cloth bound, 6 x 9 inch page trim, illustrated with 32 photos; 56 recipes; co-writer, Frank E. Smith; Introduction by Willie Morris.("Dinner at the Mansion reveals finally...the most hard-earned quality of any individual, or any society. That quality, we pray, is civilization."--Willie Morris)
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Marketplace Books Southern Cooking
Author: S. R. DullNo southern food enthusiast should be without this gathering of 1,300 flavorful recipes for such classic dishes as fried chicken, cornbread, pickled watermelon rinds, and sweet potato pie. Southern Cooking had its origins in Henrietta Dull's immensely popular cooking column in the Atlanta Journal, whose readers faithfully clipped its recipes. The demand for reprints of perennial favorites or early, hard-to-find dishes prompted Mrs. Dull to compile them into her now-famous book. Not only does it include individual recipes, but it also suggests menus for various occasions and holidays. Her famous Georgia Christmas Dinner, for instance, consists of grapefruit, roast turkey, dry stuffing, dry rice, turkey gravy, candied sweet potatoes, buttered green peas, cranberry jelly, celery hearts, hot biscuits, sweet butter, syllabub, and cake. Mrs. Dull was one of the most sought-after caterers in Atlanta even before she began her newspaper column. Her vast, practical knowledge of food and its preparation, and her embrace of new, but never gimmicky, innovations in cooking served her readers well. Upon Mrs. Dull's death in 1964 at the age of 100, the Atlanta Journal said that her book was "the standard by which regional cooks have been measured since 1928." Southern Cooking is the starting place for anyone in search of authentic dishes done in the traditional style.About the AuthorS. R. DULL (1863-1964) was the longtime editor of the home economics page of the Atlanta Journal. Her achievements during her 100 years include organizing the first departments of home economics in Georgia schools and colleges, conducting cooking schools throughout the South, and promoting locally grown products throughout the country.
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Marketplace Books Coastal Carolina Cooking
Author: Nancy Davis, Kathy HartFor generations, coastal North Carolinians have prepared and savored time-honored recipes that are as much a part of their tradition as boatbuilding and netmaking. Home-cooked meals using the great variety of seasonal foods remain central to family life. In this collection Nancy Davis and Kathy Hart have preserved an important part of the heritage of this region.Here thirty-four Tar Heel cooks offer recipes that can't be found in popular cookbooks or on restaurant menus. In Edenton, Frances Drane Inglis shares her recipe for plum pudding from the pages of a nineteenth-century family cookbook. And from Gloucester, Bill Pigott offers one of his specialties, conch chowder, a Carteret County classic. But these cooks describe more than just good food; they recount the heritage of the coast through stories, anecdotes, helpful tips, and historical facts. Vignettes on each cook lend a historical perspective to this book and the old-time recipes will be treasured for years to come. About the AuthorNancy Davis works in the University Relations Office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Marketplace Books Country Recipes and Other Interesting Stuff
Author: Bob Holt
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Marketplace Books American Cookbook: Favorite Classic Diner Recipes to Make at Home (The Complete Guide and Recipes for Native American Cookbook)
Author: Mark PhillipsAgain remember these recipes are unique so be ready to try some new things. Also remember that the style of cooking used in this cookbook is effortless. So even though the recipes will be unique and great tasting, creating them will take minimal effort! I hope you enjoy this cookbook. You can see more recipe types such as: - Maine cookbook- Massachusetts cookbook- Kentucky cookbook- Mississippi cookbook- Kansas cookbook- Alaska cookbook- Montana cookbook That makes it easier to find dishes from specific areas of interest to you. It is often said that america does not have her own cuisine, since many of the recipes originated elsewhere. But actually, american cuisine has more to offer than you might think.
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Marketplace Books Farm Journal Cookbooks
Author: Speedy Publishing LLCThe three top reasons why someone would need a farm journal cookbooks are: 1. they contain recipes that are tested over time and may go back over one hundred years; 2. they make wonderful gifts for people such at Christmas and birthdays; 3. farm journal cookbooks are a form of this country's nostalgic past. We like nostalgia.
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Marketplace Books Creamy & Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Author: Jon KrampnerMore than Mom's apple pie, peanut butter is the all-American food. With its rich, roasted-peanut aroma and flavor; caramel hue; and gooey, consoling texture, peanut butter is an enduring favorite, found in the pantries of at least 75 percent of American kitchens. Americans eat more than a billion pounds a year. According to the Southern Peanut Growers, a trade group, that's enough to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon (although the association doesn't say to what height). Americans spoon it out of the jar, eat it in sandwiches by itself or with its bread-fellow jelly, and devour it with foods ranging from celery and raisins ("ants on a log") to a grilled sandwich with bacon and bananas (the classic "Elvis"). Peanut butter is used to flavor candy, ice cream, cookies, cereal, and other foods. It is a deeply ingrained staple of American childhood. Along with cheeseburgers, fried chicken, chocolate chip cookies (and apple pie), peanut butter is a consummate comfort food. In Creamy and Crunchy are the stories of Jif, Skippy, Peter Pan; the plight of black peanut farmers; the resurgence of natural or old-fashioned peanut butter; the reasons why Americans like peanut butter better than (almost) anyone else; the five ways that today's product is different from the original; the role of peanut butter in fighting Third World hunger; and the Salmonella outbreaks of 2007 and 2009, which threatened peanut butter's sacred place in the American cupboard. To a surprising extent, the story of peanut butter is the story of twentieth-century America, and Jon Krampner writes its first popular history, rich with anecdotes and facts culled from interviews, research, travels in the peanut-growing regions of the South, personal stories, and recipes.About the AuthorJon Krampner is the author of The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television and Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley. He received an A.B. in English literature from Occidental College and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He lives in Los Angeles. Web site: www.creamyandcrunchy.comE-mail: pbj@creamyandcrunchy.comTwitter: @pbj06
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Marketplace Books Guide to Florida Pioneer Sites: Exploring the Cracker Heritage
Author: Rodney CarlisleThis unusual, richly illustrated guidebook details Florida's historic pioneer and cracker villages, describing the homes, work-ways and folk-ways of the states early settlers, through preserved and tangible objects and structures. Across the state, dedicated local historians and community groups have carefully preserved and moved 19th- and early 20th-century structures, including both homes and workplaces, to specially created villages in order to display the lives of Florida pioneers. The tools, houses, farms, gardens, barns, sugar and turpentine mills, churches and schools that are gathered into twenty separate sites are described here, for the first time in a single volume. Through the rich collections of household utensils, mills, and structures, the visitor can appreciate the details of the everyday life, work, hardships, and recreation of past generations of Floridians. The book is an indispensable handbook and guide for the casual or dedicated historic tourist as well as for parents and teachers seeking to expose young people to the vanishing lifestyles of Florida's pioneers. Contact information, hours, special events, and detailed descriptions of each structure at the sites provide the casual or dedicated visitor with both practical facts for arranging trips, and the specific family histories of the pioneers who built and lived in the homes.About the AuthorRodney Carlisle is professor emeritus of history from Rutgers University and the author of more than 40 books, including St. Augustine in History. Loretta Carlisle is a professional photographer who has published photography in a number of books.
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Marketplace Books A Gullah Guide to Charleston: Walking Through Black History
Author: Alphonso BrownJoin Alphonso Brown, owner and operator of Gullah Tours, Inc., on three accessible walking tours and a bonus driving tour through the places, history and lore relevant to the rich and varied contributions of black Charlestonians. Visit Denmark Vesey's home, Catfish Row, the Old Slave Mart and the Market; learn about the sweetgrass basket makers, the Aiken-Rhett House slave quarters, black slave owners and blacksmith Philip Simmons. Brown's distinctive narration, combined with detailed maps and vibrant descriptions in native Gullah, make this a unique and enjoyable way to experience the Holy City.About the AuthorBrown, Alphonso: - Alphonso Brown was born and reared in Rantowles, South Carolina, a rural area about twelve miles south of Charleston. Mr. Brown is a licensed tour guide for the City of Charleston and owns and operates Gullah Tours. He is a lecturer on the Gullah language and black history of Charleston. He has given countless lectures and Gullah presentations has made numerous radio and television appearances. Mr. Brown's Gullah Tours has been featured in Charleston Magazine, Southern Living magazine, Reader's Digest, the Boston Globe, New York Times, and Charles Kuralt's bestseller America. He is a recipient of the very prestigious "Three Sisters Award."?
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Marketplace Books Building a Better Tomato: The Quest to Perfect "the Scandalous Fruit"
Author: Jeff Klinkenberg, University Of FloridaTomatoes are a $2-billion industry in the United States. The commercially grown varieties are intended to ship well and have a long shelf life, but how do they actually taste? In the search for a superior alternative to bland and mealy grocery-store tomatoes, horticultural scientist Harry Klee and renowned taste researcher Linda Bartoshuk teamed up and embarked on a mission to find a specimen that will have you thinking you just picked it in your own back yard. Gatorbytes highlight for the intellectually-curious the world of innovative research happening at the University of Florida. Written by professional journalists, Gatorbytes feature the top research and preeminence work being conducted at the University of Florida, written in a way that's easy to understand. Find Gatorbytes ebooks using your favorite reading device.
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Marketplace Books 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
Author: Stephen LeA fascinating tour through the evolution of the human diet, and how we can improve our health by understanding our complicated history with food. There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health: eat a lot of meat, eat no meat; whole-grains are healthy, whole-grains are a disaster; eat everything in moderation; eat only certain foods--and on and on. In 100 Million Years of Food biological anthropologist Stephen Le explains how cuisines of different cultures are a result of centuries of evolution, finely tuned to our biology and surroundings. Today many cultures have strayed from their ancestral diets, relying instead on mass-produced food often made with chemicals that may be contributing to a rise in so-called Western diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and obesity. Travelling around the world to places as far-flung as Vietnam, Kenya, India, and the US, Stephen Le introduces us to people who are growing, cooking, and eating food using both traditional and modern methods, striving for a sustainable, healthy diet. In clear, compelling arguments based on scientific research, Le contends that our ancestral diets provide the best first line of defense in protecting our health and providing a balanced diet. Fast-food diets, as well as strict regimens like paleo or vegan, in effect highjack our biology and ignore the complex nature of our bodies. In 100 Million Years of Food Le takes us on a guided tour of evolution, demonstrating how our diets are the result of millions of years of history, and how we can return to a sustainable, healthier way of eating.About the AuthorStephen Le is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa. He received a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2010 where he was a recipient of a UCLA Chancellor's Fellowship and a National Science Foundation grant for his fieldwork in Vietnam. 100 Million Years of Food is his first book.
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Marketplace Books Lost Restaurants of Miami
Author: Seth H. BramsonTucked around a corner or soaking up the spotlight, Miami's restaurants defend an international reputation for superb cuisine and service. The constant buzz of new arrivals to the city's glamorous food scene often obscures the memory of the celebrated culinary institutions that have closed their doors. Here author Seth Bramson recounts the life--and the often untimely passing--of coffee shops, steakhouses and every level, kind and type of restaurant in between. This joyous look at bygone eateries serves up course after course of beloved fare, from the likes of Jahn's in Coral Gables to Red Diamond in Miami, Pumpernik's on Miami Beach and Rascal House in Sunny Isles.
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Marketplace Books Classic Restaurants of Durham
Author: Chris Holaday, Patrick CullomThe story of the restaurant industry in Durham is also the story of a once prosperous tobacco town that suffered through a long decline only to undergo a stunning rebirth. Legendary barbecue restaurants such as Little Acorn, Bullock's and Dillard's and sm
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Marketplace Books Classic Restaurants of New Orleans
Author: Alexandra KennonEvery New Orleanian knows Leah Chase's gumbo, but few realize that the Freedom Fighters gathered and strategized over bowls of that very dish. Or that Parkway's roast beef po-boy originated in a streetcar conductors' strike. In a town where Antoine's Oysters Rockefeller is still served up by the founder's great-great-grandson, discover the chefs and restaurateurs who kept their gas flames burning through the Great Depression and Hurricane Katrina. Author Alexandra Kennon weaves the classic offerings of Creole grande dames together with contemporary neighborhood staples for a guide through the Crescent City's culinary soul. From Brennan's Bananas Foster to Galatoire's Souffl Potatoes, this collection also features a recipe from each restaurant, allowing readers to replicate iconic New Orleans cuisine at home.About the AuthorKennon, Alexandra: - Alexandra Kennon grew up in the small town of St. Francisville, Louisiana, just a short drive north of New Orleans. After graduating from the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, she moved down the Mississippi River to attend Loyola University in New Orleans, and the Crescent City's eccentricities and debauchery suited her so well she has since proudly called it home. In addition to writing about Louisiana's rich history, cuisine and culture, Alexandra leads tours of her beloved city and acts for the stage and screen--she is most proud to have originated roles in two Tennessee Williams one-acts.
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