Customer Reviews:
Farmer chronicles Doc Savage's first adventure........1999-04-27
In this well-crafted novel, Philip Jose Farmer, best known for his Riverworld novels, chronicles the earliest known adventure of 1930s and '40s pulp hero Doc Savage. Young Clark Savage, shot down while balloon-busting over WWII Germany, finds himself a captive in Camp Loki, a prison camp specially designed for incouragible escapees. Doc pits his super abilities against Camp Loki's commandant, the wiley Baron von Hessel, a complex, nihilistic creature who ranks high on the list of Doc's most undaunting foes. The novel provides insight into Doc's motives for his later life of crime-fighting, made more intense by Farmer's ingenious weaving of disguised characters from other works of popular literature. Farmer, who once wrote fictional biographies of Doc Savage and Tarzan, was well qualified to pen this prequel which stands on firm ground with the original Doc Savage series by Kenneth Robeson.
Book Description
This book delivers what it promises -- New Food Fast. Whether you've got 10, 20 or 30 minutes to make a meal, Donna Hay gives you the ideas, recipes and inspiration to create great dishes using fresh and interesting ingredients in next to no time. With busy people like herself in mind, Donna has solved the daily what's-for-dinner dilemma with a book full of fast, simple, tempting and satisfying answers. Keep this copy of New Food Fast on the kitchen bench and, even in your busiest moments, you'll never be left wondering what's for dinner.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent recipes.......2007-03-20
The best cookbook author....easy and delicious recipes that are not too fussy or time consuming and are always fabulous. A must have. Dorick
Very Good.......2006-06-07
New food Fast offers reader a vast amount of detailed recipes and easy to use foods to make quick and tasty meals for the whole family.Great photos to help with the cooking process.
Great quality at a great price........2006-03-23
I'm very happy with my purchase there. I would recommend this vendor. Thanks.
Excellent! I use it all the time!.......2006-01-02
I love this cookbook! Great photos, great, varied recipes, and not dumbed down as with some seemingly "international" cookbooks (which recommend subbing soy sauce for fish sauce and the like). I've liked everything I've made from this one, and while I often take longer than the author suggests, it's because I'm slow on prep. I still consider this a "quick cook" cookbook, and one of the best.
Quick, Easy, Beautiful Food! Gorgeous cookbook!.......2005-07-08
This cookbook will spoil you! It has definitely inspired me in the kitchen. Not only is the food beautiful- it's flavorful, imaginative, and easy! Finally, now everyone can be a gourmet cook! I have most of Donna Hays' cookbooks & I can honestly say that I think they are some of THE best cook books out there. I use mine all the time. One note: She does draw pretty heavily on the Aisian theme as well as pastas. Some ingredients MAY be hard to get, depending on where you live, too. However, I highly recommend this cookbook. If you love this cookbook, you'll love any of her other cookbooks too...
Customer Reviews:
Get over it!.......2006-05-01
There is a lot of hype surrounding this book. My professors seem to love it, though I do not know why. This book is based on totally fallacious reasoning and was written by a mediocre intellect. Let me explain. Bynum argues that medieval women like Catherine of Siena were not anorexic because anorexics today supposedly starve themselves for the sake of appearance. She does not seem to understand that anorexia is a disease; it is not about appearance not matter what sufferers of the disease my say is their inspiration. Ask any psychiatrist. Historians should realize that diseases exist whether or not people of the past put names to them or understood them. As tuberculosis remains tuberculosis over the years (not counting mutations and such), so do mental illness like anorexia. So, it is entirely possible that medieval women suffered from anorexia as easily as women of the present. I, personally, suffer from eating disorders and spent a good part of my life self-mutilating through cutting and burning, etc. I have been put in front of many therapists, so I think I know what I'm talking about when I say that, no matter the trigger, such things are diseases. This means that medieval women had religious piety as the concentration point of their eating problems, not that their affliction was that different from the anorexic of today.
Then, Bynum goes on and on to illustrate how women like Catherine of Siena associated food and Christ's body with the female body. But, we're not supposed to think of causing bodily suffering and the refusal to eat are a rejection of the female body! Why not?! Let's see... If the female body is food, the rejecting food does not symbolize a rejection of the female body. Women were suffering like Christ, right? Well, it was the female side of Christ that suffered. Why was it Christ's female side that had to be mutilated for the world to be saved? Instead of putzing around trying to make a name for yourself, why not answer the question of why the female body must be mutilated and made to suffer in order to gain holiness. She bases this part of her argument on the fact that many priests and religious officials had begun to support women more during the time of Catherine of Siena and others. Whatever. Today, there are all sorts of anti-anorexia influences, and have they stopped the disease? No! At best, they may have made some women and men to seek help for their problems. Besides, the Church still taught that the body of woman was the vehicle through which sin entered the world, no matter what else they may have been saying. And, there are ALWAYS people who resist change and prefer the "old ways" for many reasons, especially because the "old way" is comfortable to them. Also, women's spirtuality is not necessarily the same as Church teaching. While the Church definitely influenced spirituality, there is more than enough evidence that individual communities and persons formed their own traditions according to their needs. So, if a woman wants to become holy, what's going to influence her the most? Years of tradition and cultural mores as well as her own conscience, or priests who may or may not have preached some new material (mainly aimed at women who were wives and mothers, not women seeking a religious life).
The reason why Bynum wrote this book was to waste all of our time trying to become a big wig in the world of history. Unfortunately, historians, being mediocre intellects most of the time (and I can say that as a professional historian myself) cannot seem to see straight through it. I've noticed that whatever seems to be the new, happening thing in history tends to get this kind of hype no matter what uninspired trash is produced. Bynum wrote this when women's history was a big field, which explains history professors' fascination with the book. The only other reason why I can see that historians might actually buy the arguments in this book is because they are so hung up on historical context that they fail to see that, though context is important, a) people do have some modicum of free will, and b) some things transcend time.
I'll probably get in trouble for writing this, but I really do not care. People will flame any books I will write anyway because I'm trying to take the field in another direction. But I digress.
Don't read this book unless you must. If you have to read this book, be sure to take it with a grain of salt.
May I have ashes on that cheesecake, please?.......2001-03-29
This is a great read. I don't care if you're interested in history in general, history of the catholic church, history of western mysticism or just looking for something offbeat and interesting: This is a fascinating book! The history of mysticism and western intellectual tradition as it is intertwined with food is certainly there but for the reader seeking just plain bizarre to our modern eyes goings-on, that is in this text as well. In fact, for someone looking for a jump start to their imagination for their own writing, this book is a real bucket of volts. Go read it. Have fun. But, don't try it at home.
an excellent study of female hagiography.......1999-01-21
This book is truly an exciting text in the field of hagiography studies. It looks at the stories of female vitae and reads the themes behind them with regard to the issues of denial and spirituality. While in the end, Bynum might lean a bit too far towards a feminist self-image reading, nonetheless, for the most part the book is valuable, well-reasoned and shows the potentialities for scholars of ways to approach the large and somewhat heterogeneous corpus of vitae.
Very good read but rather long-winded.......1998-10-23
Caroline Bynum's book, Holy Feast and Holy Fast, examines the importance of food for religious women in the Middle Ages. Although there has been other recent research into the lives of women saints and the way they dealt with food and fasting, for instance by scholars like Weinstein and Bell, as she mentions in the introduction, Bynum promises that in her book she will treat evidence in a different way, most importantly by focusing on the women's point of view. The first two chapters are an introduction to religious women in the Middle Ages and religious food practices of both women and men. Then Bynum turns specifically to women's religious food practices and in the next four chapters she gives a multitude of examples of different women and their different habits or even rituals concerning food. As she says in the introduction, Bynum uses examples from the lives of well known saints, like Elizabeth of Hungary, Lidwina of Schiedam, Columba of Rieti and Catherine of Siena, not because these stories reflect what were normal fasting habits in the Middle Ages, but because their lives are well documented and they would serve as role models for Medieval women. She gives detailed examples of (extreme) food asceticism, cases of inedia, women's devotion of the eucharist and not being able to eat anything but the consecrated host, eucharistic visions, food miracles and some very graphic examples of women eating and drinking the filth of the sick: Several of [Catherine of Siena's] hagiographers report that she twice forced herself to overcome nausea by thrusting her mouth into the putrifying breast of a dying woman or by drinking pus... She told Raymond: "Never in my life have I tasted any food and drink sweeter or more exquisite than this pus." (171-2). Bynum identifies the reasons for this fasting as being, among other things, ways to get closer to God by imitating the lifestyle and suffering of Christ. They would do penance for their sins and suffer to save themselves and other people from Purgatory. The reason why especially women fasted was because food and their own bodies were the only things women had control over and through that control they could manipulate their surroundings. Despite the promising title of the last part of the book: "The Explanation", the first chapter and a good part of the second and third chapters of this section are rather disappointing and cause some confusion. Chapter 6 deals with the parallels between modern eating disorders, like anorexia nervosa, and fasting or inedia in medieval women, even though Bynum states her reluctance to make this connection in the introduction. This reluctance is clearly present throughout the chapter, resulting in a narrative that skips from one subject to another. The second and third chapters of "The Explanation" consist mainly of a repetition of things that were said earlier in the book. However, in the two remaining chapters, Bynum raises some interesting issues of the meaning of the body, women as food and Symbolic Reversal. On the whole, the presentation of the book is excellent and the impressive amount of footnotes that take up more than one hundred pages shows it to be a carefully researched book. Apart from the mentioned 'problem areas' the book makes enjoyable reading and provides the reader with plenty of food for thought and further research.
Average customer rating:
- Wonderful and Easy!
- Excellent, tried and true, everyday and exotic
- Wonderfuldairy and meat recipes for every holiday and event.
|
New Kosher Cuisine for All Seasons
Ivy Feuerstadt
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Baking
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
Kosher
| Special Diet
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
Kosher Foods
| Judaism
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0898155592 |
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful and Easy!.......2000-02-01
This is our favorite kosher cookbook too! The kasha meatloaf, no need to wait around the house challah, and the chicken soup are our favorites. The chinese style recipes in this book are wonderful too because they actually taste authentic unlike some recipes you may have tried. The cookbook even puts groups of recipes together for you so it is easy to plan an entire meal. The meals are also marked meat, dairy , parve, and Pesach.
Excellent, tried and true, everyday and exotic.......1999-06-12
After I found there were too many recipes for me to copy out, I decided to buy this book. It has excellent recipes, most of them easy and quick to make. They use some exotic ingredients that are becoming commonplace, and also have some old favourites. I own many Jewish community cookbooks and this is one of my favourites. A note to the authors - next time include an address and or phone no. for additional orders! (some people don't think of ordering online!)
Wonderfuldairy and meat recipes for every holiday and event........1997-11-16
I have many kosher cookbooks but this is my favorite. The recipes are up-to- date for 1997 palates. My family enjoyed black bean and pumpkin soup,pickled salmon,and some wonderful safardic recipes. The commentaries were interesting.The authors pinpoint which recipes can be used for Passover too ! This book requires no advanced cooking skills . or exotic ingrediants.
Book Description
A unique book of Jewish food lore that blends the thirteen month Jewish calendar with ceremonies. A companion to Miriam's Well, with l5 pgs. of biblical/historical food reference and recipes.
Customer Reviews:
The Rosh Hodesh Table.......2007-01-11
Very informative. Well-written and understandable. Whole new topic for me, but it did not feel that way after reading this book. Will be trying out some of her ideas this very month.
Book Description
No longer just pocket money for American teens, wages paid by multinational fast-food chains are going to a new generation of order-takers, burger-flippers, and basket-fryers - newly arrived immigrants.
Hailing from China, the Caribbean, Latin America, and India, a colorful sea of faces has taken its place behind one of the most ubiquitous American business institutions - the fast-food counter. They have become a vital link between the growing service sector in our cities' ethnic enclaves and the multi-billion dollar global fast-food industry.
For four years, sociologist Jennifer Parker Talwar went behind the counter herself and listened to immigrant fast-food workers in New York City's ethnic communities. They talked about balancing their low-paying jobs and monotonous daily reality with keeping the faith that these very jobs could be the first step on the path to the American Dream. In this original and compelling work of ethnography, Talwar shows that contrary to those arguing that the fast-food industry only represents an increasing homogenization of the American workforce, fast-food chains in immigrant communities must and do adapt to their surroundings. Rather than focusing on how ethnic communities become relatively sealed off from the larger economy, Talwar explores the interplay between globalizing mainstream forces like fast-food chains and the immigrant communities of our largest and most diverse cities.
Customer Reviews:
Very informative.......2004-01-23
This is a picture of America that you don't get elsewhere! She worked inside fast food restaurants to research this book, and I think she has done a stellar job here. Any American could learn a lot from reading this fine, fine book.
An interesting study.......2002-10-29
Sociologist Jennifer Parker Talwar spent four years working in a Burger King as a part of her research on this book. She interviewed a wide range of immigrant fast-food workers in New York City's ethnic communities. The result is an interesting study in immigration, ethnicity, labor and community in New York City.
As a white American who has worked in fast food before, I was surprised to read about just how much is going on with fast food restaurants in a major metropolis, both in terms of the labor side and the business side. My experience was archtypal middle America - the kid working to make extra money. I think that this description still applies for the vast majority of the country, but the more I think about the faces behind the counter of many fast food restaurants in Washington, DC, Talwar is right - fast food is the entry for many immigrants into the mainstream American workforce. Accordingly, this book is a must-read for those who want to consider how immigrants are assimilated into modern America.
The main limitation is that it is a study of immigrant labor and fast food in New York City. The broad range of ethnic diversity and community experiences that were drawn upon for this book simply do not exist anywhere else in the United States. I cannot think of any other city that could readily provide the "United Nations" workforce of the Chinatwon McDonald's described in this book. Therefore, how applicable Talwar's work is to the country at large must be called into question. Also, do not be fooled by the cover into thinking that this book is anything like "Fast Food Nation." It is a specific (and appropriately narrow) sociological study, and lacks the range of that excellent book.
Readable and Comprehensive.......2002-02-18
Clearly the result of exhaustive research, this book takes traditionally very dry material and presents a highly readable text that identifies fascinating perspectives on the American Dream.
Recommended without reservation.
Recommended.......2002-02-15
A very readable book while addressing important contemporary issues related to immigration and the consumer economy. Highly recommended.
Average customer rating:
|
The New Classic Cook: Good Food Fast
Pamela Clark
Manufacturer: Time Inc Home Entertainment
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Quick & Easy
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 1932994297 |
Average customer rating:
- Would love to rate it but I can't!
- Tasty, easy to follow & Brit Friendly
|
The New High Protein Diet Cookbook: Fast, Delicious Recipes for Any High-Protein or Low-Carb Lifestyle
Charles V. Clark , and
Maureen Clark
Manufacturer: Arrow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
Healthy
| Special Diet
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
Low Fat
| Special Diet
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
Natural Foods
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Diets
| Diets & Weight Loss
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
Low Carb
| Diets
| Diets & Weight Loss
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
Low Carbohydrate
| Special Conditions
| Diets & Weight Loss
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
Low-Fat Diet
| Special Conditions
| Diets & Weight Loss
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
High Protein Diet
| Special Conditions
| Diets & Weight Loss
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Nutrition
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
Diet Therapy
| Alternative & Holistic
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
Clinical Chemistry
| Pathology
| Specialties
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
Diet Therapy
| Alternative Medicine
| Medical
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Clinical Chemistry
| Pathology
| Internal Medicine
| Medicine
| Medical
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Similar Items:
-
The High-Protein Cookbook: More than 150 healthy and irresistibly good low-carb dishes that can be on the table in thirty minutes or less.
-
Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery: Over 140 Delicious Low-Fat High-Protein Recipes to Enjoy in the Weeks, Months and Years After Surgery
-
Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery: Delicious Dishes for Nourishing the New You (Healthy Living Cookbooks)
-
Exodus from Obesity: The Guide to Long-Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery
-
I'm Still Hungry
Accessories:
-
Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
ASIN: 0091889707 |
Book Description
Full of recipes that are easy and delicious, this is the companion cookbook for anyone on a high-protein-low-carb diet
Customer Reviews:
Would love to rate it but I can't!.......2007-08-01
I ordered this product from some pathetic third party. My money was taken from my account immediately. About two weeks later I was told that they didn't have it - sorry. I was also told that my money would be refunded in about a month. I tried to contact the third party but the e-mails wouldn't go through. I contacted Amazon and told them a month was unacceptable. They told me there was nothing they could do. I received my money back in one month and will never use Amazon again. Do yourself a favor. Don't order this book or any other from Amazon.com.
Tasty, easy to follow & Brit Friendly.......2005-08-10
A great follow-on to his previous diet books and these recipes are no less tasty. When tasting some of the dishes you have to ask yourself if you're REALLY on a diet.
The recipes are very easy to follow and cover all meals from breakfast through to dinner and even snacks
British users will find it a breeze as all the units are `Brit Friendly' and practically all the ingredients can be found in UK stores.
The downside is the lack of pictures to know what the meal should look like- that's always helpful.
Many of the menus have flour and or other high carb ingredients although often in small quantities so they may not be suitable for very low carb regimes such as Atkins induction diets.
Vegetarians will be disappointed too as the selection is somewhat limited.
Overall though, this is an excellent book and one to be highly recommended.
Mark Moxom. Editor: low carb & Atkins Newsletter
Product Description
Contains lists of common fast-food restaurant meals and pre-packaged groceries with information on Carbohydrate, Fat, Protein, and Sodium contents.
Books:
- Final Impact (The Axis of Time Trilogy, Book 3)
- Flower Fairies: The Meaning of Flowers (Flower Fairies)
- Forever Ours: Real Stories of Immortality and Living From A Forensic Pathologist
- French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France
- Giant Pandas: Gifts from China (Rookie Read-About Science)
- God Is With You: Prayers for Men in Prison
- Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch
- Hello Gorgeous!: Beauty Products in America, '40s-'60s
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- God and Juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter With Modernity
- 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last
- The Laws of Evening: Stories
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Handguns: Pistols and Revolvers of the World, 1870 to the Present
- The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls: Unlocking the Secrets of the Past, Present, and Future
- 2006 International Building Code - Softcover Version: Softcover Version
- Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture
- Ama Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants
- The Eatons: The Rise and Fall of Canada's Royal Family
- The Autobiography of Maria Elena Moyano
Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
WHISTLING WRAITH, THE (Doc Savage)
Doc Savage: "Fortress of Solitude" and "The Devil Genghis" (Paperback - variant cover)
Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe
