Customer Reviews:
A step in the right direction.......2007-02-07
Most of the suggestions form the book seem reasonable to me as a means to improve blood sugar. The main problem with the book is that is dated and in need of an update. For example the book says that Splenda would be very hard to find which is hardly the case anymore and does not mention newer products such a PGX for blood sugar control. Otherwise most of the suggestions are probably valid. I would have given 5 stars but for the out of date issue.
DIP: Simple Guide to better health.......2003-03-22
I was surprised by the simple straight forward approach to the problems that must be addressed to live well with diabetes. This book contains clear sound approaches to nutrition, life style and overall health issues related to the diabetic condition.
Great praise for this book.......2001-12-28
After hunting through many diabetic books for a gift for a friend of mine, I finally chose this one. My friend called me immediately and said it was the best gift she had ever received -she had read it backwards and forwards and had even highlighted it. She said it was extremely helpful (she is dealing with her diabetes naturally after experiencing prescription side effects) and is putting it's advice and recipes to use daily.
The Diabetes Inprovement Program.......2001-12-04
This book was a quick and easy but valuable read.
It addresses diabetes in understandable terms, explains the glycemic index, discusses nutrition (diet), excersise, and the useful addition of nutritional supplements in the diabetic diet.
It notes a group of what the author defines as 'Super Foods' which can have profound positive bearing on the diabetic status, and includes a small selection of recipes.
The book also contains a very useful section that address 25 different sweeteners; basic and comparative information I have sought after for some time - all nicely compiled in one place.
I feel the information provided in this book on nutritional supplements, sweeteners and 'Super Foods' make it a valuable resource for anyone with diabetes or anyone responsible for providing meals for diabetics.
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Calvin Trillin goes through life one step behind his appetite. He says he's just a Big Hungry Boy from the Midwest, but he's also one of the funniest American writers around, writing a palate pilgrimage through Europe and the Caribbean, where Trillin fantasizes of an Italian West Indies island of Santo Prosciutto "whose steep hills are green with garlic plants." Trillin gives free play to other obsessions (like taureaux piscine), but most of the travels are happily fueled by thoughts of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie's 1904 assertion that the beautiful town "is being spoilt," and skip the Grand Tour in favor of swimming holes, table soccer, and taureaux piscine. In Paris, they spend a day on the Champs- Elysées comparing Freetime's "le Hitburger" to McDonald's Big Mac. In Spain, Trillin wonders whether he will run out of Spanish "the way someone might run out of flour or eggs." Filled with Trillin's characteristic humor, Travels with Alice is the perfect book for summer travelers.
Customer Reviews:
3.5 stars. Sweet, funny, wry, but not perfect........2007-08-23
This is my second Trillin book, after Tepper Isn't Going Out Today. I quite enjoyed that book, and when the most recent Alice book came out and was being promoted, I became interested in going back to some of Trillin's earlier works, especially those featuring Alice.
This slight volume was a nice, easy read with family vacation stories fairly universal in this culture. Kids with fussy appetites, parents balancing out "just hanging around" vs "force-feeding culture down the kids' throats", etc etc. Trillin's got a nice wry, easy-going manner that I found comfortable and friendly.
There were times I found myself skimming the overdone descriptions of the food he enjoyed. I get that that's one of Trillin's "things" - he's a foodie. But it's just not all that interesting when described to such the nth degree.
I enjoyed, most of all, passages involving his interactions with his two daughters. Funny and sweet without being cloying or sentimental. If I have one complaint with the book, it's that the titular Alice makes only rare, and not especially interesting, appearances. Trillin seems not that interested in the experiences his wife had on their trips, or in the experiences he shared with his wife on their trips. Very interested in his own deal. Which is fine. But given the title, I had hoped for a bit more in the way of a loving, fun reflection on their shared experiences.
Good book, recommended.
Should have been titled "Travels with Calvin".......2007-03-21
After hearing Mr. Trillin speak on a public radio talk show, I thought I'd love to read one of his books, as I found him so amusing. As it turns out, I found this book very boring. I've traveled in many of the countries he mentioned but found his descriptions of food and place uninteresting and found myself skipping over many parts trying to get to something interesting. Little mention was made of Alice. His two daughters played a bigger part in the rendition and it was mostly about Calvin. I don't know if I'd care to try another of his books.
Travels with Calvin.......2004-10-02
Calvin Trillin may want to sound exasperated when he talks about his travels with his wife Alice and his daughters.He can talk all he wants about dispelling the notion that an $800.00 per person customs limit does not mean his family each need to purchase that exact amount of goods before returning home. How McDonald's semingly smell the same though located half a world apart. He may want to sound gruff, but this collection of essays manage to convey his delight in discovering new cusines,comfortable places and kindly people. I suspect half the fun of traveling with Alice, is seeing how far you could push the seemingly intractable Calvin over the edge.
A travel-writing gem.......2000-09-05
This is a gem of the travel narrative genre. Yet it is found under the Humor category in the bookstore. It is wickedly funny. Trillin's enthusiam is a pleasure. The chapter called "Defying Mrs. Tweedie" is worth the price of the entire book. Typical of this book, the chapter is not only original and funny, it is a lyrical description of a travel destination, Taormina, with details of history, scenery, and food. I like Trillin's philosophy of travel, the leisurely approach. The book is full of inside jokes from chapter to chapter, like the I.W.I. (the imaginary Italian West Indies, where the food is superb) and his nickname for his wife Alice, "la principessa." (It improves the service in Italian hotels.) Nice insights on family travel, too. I finished the last chapter, turned the page hoping for another, and groaned when I realized the book was finished.
Trillin's best yet!.......1999-08-31
Trillin's light brand of humor is perfectly suited to his view of travelling with wife and children in tow. A European summer for the Trillin family consists of food (of course), swimming, and finding the best "babyfoot" -- that is, bar football. And how many authors do you know who get their kicks by yelling "tauraux piscine" out the open car window as the Provencal countryside whizzes by? Read it and enjoy.
Amazon.com
The travel bug knows no limits of age or gender, and neither should travel literature. In Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure, writer and illustrator Don Brown tells the story of an intrepid young woman and her 59-day drive across America in 1909. As Brown soon makes clear, Alice Ramsey's journey was no mean feat--for one thing, the roads were poor, there were no road signs, and there was only one guidebook for motorists--the Blue Book, which contained directions such as "Turn left at the red barn with the yellow silo..." Excellent directions as long as the farmer hadn't repainted the silo blue.
Accompanied by her friend Hermine and her two sisters-in-law, Alice Ramsey made her way west, fording flooding streams and muddy roads and facing mechanical failures, terrible weather, and other obstacles both natural and manmade until at last she entered San Francisco to a grand parade. Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventurehas drama, humor, suspense--in short, all the qualities one looks for in travel literature--and charming illustrations as well, guaranteed to appeal to young travelers-in-the-making.
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Don Brown introduces us to yet another little-known heroine. On June 9, 1909, twenty-two-year-old Alice Ramsey hitched up her skirts and climbed behind the wheel of a Maxwell touring car. Fifty-nine days later she rolled into San Francisco, becoming the first woman to drive across America. What happened in between is quite a tale! Through words and pictures, the author shares this story of a brave and tenacious young woman who followed her vision to conquer the open road - even when the road was nothing more than a wagon trail. Alice Ramsey's adventure offers a unique perspective on turn-of-the-century America and pays tribute to the pioneering spirit that helped create it.
Customer Reviews:
Hard as it was, Alice Came Through.......2005-05-05
Alice Ramsey of Hackensack, New Jersey was twenty-two years old in June of Nineteen Nine, when she started out on her trip driving trip across America with her two sisters-in-law and her friend Hermine as passengers. Narrow roads, dirt roads and roads that were barely there at all challenged them, as did mud, rivers and mountains. And when the car broke Alice was the one who had to get it working again. One has to remember that though this trip was a bit less than a century ago, this was an amazing feet. Women didn't have the vote, were considered much to gentle for such a task and many didn't think Alice would come through, but come through she did, making the trip in fifty-nine days.
This is a super book with out of sight illustrations by Mr. Brown. My young son loves the pictures and when he's old enough to really understand the story, he's going to love Alice Ramsey as we read along about her grand adventure. Three thumbs up at my house. One from young Devon, One from Mommy Sara and one from me.
Jack Priest, Dad in Training
Here is a Road Trip where you can admire the women.......2004-06-16
No doubt young readers will be struck by the idea that on June 9, 1909 a twenty-two-year-old woman named Alice Ramsey made a name for herself by becoming the first woman to drive across America in an automobile. After all, the thought that this achievement would be a big deal should strike this as being somewhat odd. But one of the things that "Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure" does is remind its readers what life was like at the turn of the last century, especially if you happened to be a woman (after all, women could not yet vote in the United States).
Told and illustrated with watercolor paintings by Don Brown, "Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure" makes it clear why this fifty-nine day trip, which began on June 9, 1909, was something akin to something done by pioneers the century before. After all, Alice did this trip traveling with her friend and her sisters-in-law, and the only one who knew anything about automobiles was Alice. The car was a Maxwell touring car, which had a top speed of 42 miles per hour and where you had to light the headlamps with a match. To make things even more interesting there were no road signs, many roads were for horses rather than automobiles, and the only guidebook that existed for motorists only covered the eastern part of the country.
What is fascinating here are the details, the problems both big and small, that Alice Ramsey faced while driving across the country in her Maxwell. After all, this trip took place less than a century ago, which makes "Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure" a great example of those tales about the Olden Days when you can really tell how different things were way back then. If young readers were to think about what they could do today that would be in the same spirit, if not the same scale, as what Alice Ramsey did, it would be interesting to see what they might come up with to rival this road trip.
Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure.......2002-11-01
A wonderful introduction to the conditions of the roads for the early travelers by car in America. Because of their determination, our roads were improved and the automobile industry flurished. A great way to make children and adults aware of the history of the early automobiles and how people like Alice Ramsey believed in them. The geography lessons lend themselves to great mapping activities.
Alice Ramsey, Pioneer.............2002-09-25
"On June 9, 1909, Alice Ramsey drove out of New York City and into a grand adventure. Alice Ramsey wanted to be the first woman to drive across America. Alice's friend, Hermine, and her sisters-in-law, Nettie and Margaret, traveled with her..." So begins Don Brown's marvelous story of a little known young woman and her dream. Mr Brown's engaging and informative text, told in an easy to read conversational style, is filled with enlightening details about how the trip progressed over its 59 day period. Pigs clogged the road in Illinois, and railroad tracks slowed them down in Chicago and "...the car bounced over mile after mile of rail until the women were dizzy." Dirt roads became muddy and impassable when it rained, and as they traveled further west, there were no roads at all. "Alice followed telephone lines, hoping the wires would lead her to the next town. It wasn't always successful-sometimes it left them even more lost." And there were many mishaps and breakdowns along the way. But as she crested the Sierra Mountains, Alice knew she was now in California and close to her goal. "Alice guided the Maxwell onto a ferry that carried them to San Fransisco. When she rolled off the ferry behind the wheel of her Maxwell, Alice Ramsey became the first woman to have driven across America! It was August 7, 1909, Fifty-nine days had passed since Alice left New York City." Charming watercolor illustrations add just the right touch, and highlight the important events of the story. Perfect for youngsters 4-8, Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure is an inspiring tale, told by a gifted storyteller, that is sure to whet the appetite of adventurous readers and send them out looking for more.
A wonderful inspiring book for adventurerers of all ages.......1998-09-27
Luminous watercolors and a straightforward writing style serve to enchant the reader without over-romanticizing a true story. I look forward to more by this author.
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In 1958, Doris Muscatine’s husband, a medieval scholar, got a Fulbright for a year of research in Italy. They lived in Rome and almost immediately became hopeless Italophiles. The Vinegar of Spilamberto is the enchanting story of their experiences. The couple returned often, staying in various apartments—a house in Venice, a medieval tower in Tuscany, and a villa on the Appia Antica with its own catacombs.
From such small places as Populonia and Rovescala to bigger ones like Riace and Dozza, the family immersed themselves in the Italy off the typical tourist tracks. Muscatine describes the extreme cultural differences everywhere, but most notable in Sicily, and delights in various foods—including Il Ranocchio, dall’antipasto al dolce (The Frog, from antipasto to dessert)—and the wines that went with them. Chapters are devoted to the Italian appreciation of slow food and of special products such as truffles and balsamic vinegar.
Customer Reviews:
The Vinegar of Spilamberto.......2006-08-09
In The Vinegar of Spilamberto: And Other Adventures with Food, Places, and People, Doris Muscatine takes food and dining as her pathway into an eloquent revisiting of Italian culture. With intelligence, humor, and surprising particularity, she evokes the experience of Italy: its people, history, traditions, festivals, landscapes, and food. Those who already love Italy will cherish it more. For those who know Italy less, the book provides a lively introduction to the ways of enjoying it. Not to mention many delicious, region-specific recipes that will lure you into the kitchen.
Vivid Evocations of Italy -- Places and People, Food and Wine.......2006-08-08
If you love Italy -- its food and wine and people, and if you enjoy good writing, then this is the book for you. Here is a memoir in which each chapter creates vivid evocations of place, from the Amalfi Coast to the Piedmont Region, from Positano to Populonia to Barbarino Val d'Elsa. Sprinkled throughout are lively portraits of people and often wonderful new information, be it a detailed history and the many variations of truffles, or the emergence of the Slow Food Movement (as opposed to fast food), or even classic Italian recipes such as caponata or the Renaissance dish of cibreo (here without the [...]). Doris Muscatine has always known how to write about food so that we taste as we read, but here she allows us to enter a richer and more colorful world that lets us experience her adventures as she evokes them.
Sour Vinegar.......2006-07-12
Doris Muscatine is no Peter Mayle! This book is shallow, poorly written and imitative. Save your money. Buy real vinegar instead.
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- Memoir + travelogue + learning Irish: 3 books in one
- Superb!
- Intresting exploration into Gaelic Ireland
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Steve Fallon
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Steve Fallon's Boston upbringing was as Irish as the come: portraits of the President, the Pope and the Sacred Heart hanging on the wall, a patina of song and booze, and even being taught by his Aunt Alice to bless himself in Gaelic. When, as an adult, he finds his life is generating more questions than answers, he embarks on a journey to the land of his ancestors determined to conquer Gaelic - and to find some personal peace. What starts out as a private odyssey beings to resemble a family road trip when, much to his surprise, Steve is joined by the spirit of his long-departed Aunt Alice. Together they journey to the heart of Irish-speaking Ireland - the Gaeltacht - through pubs and language classes, brushes with the 'little people' and run-ins with other classmates, through Galway, Kerry, Donegal and beyond.
Despite all he learns along the way, Steve's quest raises two fundamental questions. Can Gaelic continue to survive? And just how long is Alice planning to hang around?
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Memoir + travelogue + learning Irish: 3 books in one.......2005-12-24
I read this carefully, as a student of Irish who has travelled many of Fallon's same roads and walked on his exact shores. The book's a mixture of genres, which may please those less cognizant or patient with the core of the tale concerning his Irish-language learning at an adult-level summer course in An Cheathru Rua (Carroroe) on the west coast of Co. Galway's Gaeltacht, in one of the island's designated Irish-speaking heartlands. It may help to have more than a passing acquaintance at least with rudimentary Irish to appreciate the set-up and the goals that Fallon, amidst a mid-life crisis that remains muted, takes on. No worry, however, the snippets in Irish are all translated; by the end you'll pick up useful and idiomatic Irish sentences! (See Darerca Ni Chartuir's "The Irish Language: An Overview and Guide" for a quick introduction to all facets of Irish-language learning, including brief essays from students of various centers, including the one Fallon attended.)
The direct prose reflects Fallon's profession, the writing and editing of many travel guides (thanks, Steve, for the Lonely Planet Hungary, which I found typically concise and cogent), and does not have a lot of dazzle. This may detract from some of the book where I thought that more descriptive scene-setting would have aided those who had never seen what I and Fallon may have, but it does make for a brisk narrative. He does obscure exactly what's at the bottom of his quest in terms of his own psyche, but (as Maureen Dezell's "Irish America" book--also reviewed by me on Amazon--shows), this is a typical and ineradicable foible of all Irish. The conclusion, with his triumphant speech in Irish to a gaggle of dumbfounded Bretons, makes for a wonderful summation of the success of his mission to gain Irish fluency.
What works clumsily is the sub-plot involving the ghost of his aunt, the titular Alice, who accompanies him on his travels. I am not doubting that her spirit might transmogrify, this being an Irish tale, but this conceit was not very entertaining or enlightening to me as a reader. I felt as if I was a parent intruding on a child's conversations with an "invisible friend."
Confusingly, after a lull in the morale of he and his learners mid-way through the course, he suddenly absconds temporarily in a rapid jaunt around much of the remaining Irish-speaking Gaeltachtai. How did he leave, drive around Ireland, and return for the course? Such logistics, as with the exact time and schedule of his summer program, are left vague.
This exploration of Gaeltachtai is an excellent idea for a book, but needed to either be made more seriously and extensively, or made into another book entirely. It's shoehorned into this personal tale, and does not quite fit neatly enough. Places that Fallon should have investigated like Muscraigh, Tory Island, Rath Cairn, Belmullet, and especially the West Belfast Irish-speaking community: these important centers where Irish is either ebbing or cresting are all bypassed or rushed past, one senses for lack of time.
This detracts from the otherwise thoughtful interviews with experts and encounters with native speakers with whom he tries to "leave behind" as well as "take away" Irish as an active language. He finds his efforts often belittled, reflecting too the disdain many Irish have, English and Irish-speakers, for those trying to pick up the "native" language as outsiders. His honest attempts reminded me of Pamela Petro's "Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh" (see my review) as another American learner of the baby boomer generation eager and scared to converse through a Celtic language with its natives. The collusion of the native speakers against the incomers reveals a crucial difficulty discouraging many well-intentioned learners as well as making native speakers feel the brunt of endlessly rudimentary verbal exchanges with strangers.
Unlike Welsh, however, Irish because of and not despite its state-sponsorship remains threatened. Fallon seeks to learn its Connemara dialect, but who can he talk to? And will they respond in Irish, in a place where all speak English anyway? The problem seems only growing worse in the Gaeltachtai, even as adults learn it. Most who claim to speak Irish daily are, of course, students between 10-14, as Fallon reminds us in an intelligent if dispiriting analysis of census figures. He quotes the Donegal activist Liam O Cuinneagain, who wonders if Irish will survive as a community-based or only as a network-connected language. Certainly a vexed question for many concerned with the present and future of Irish as more than, say Klingon, Elvish, or Esperanto. Will Irish come to be used only in a course by teens or a hobby for adult learners? I further pondered its unstable prognosis after reading Fallon's encounters with those Irish men and women charged with diagnosing and boosting Irish today.
Fallon offers much that transcends the easy sentiment of emigres or the inherited disdain of many who have been force-fed Irish over the past century, and I only wish this had been made more prominently the focus rather than its few pages here.
Also, Fallon's reminiscences of growing up in Irish America in a Boston suburb in the 50s and 60s, while informative in showing Fallon's initial attraction to the remnants he heard of what he and his family believed already a "dead" language, do not show much that is distinctive. This effort, I realize, is to delineate how Fallon later felt such a need, as if from "racial memory," to return to study Irish and recover a severed link with his past and present identity. But much of the book is taken up with this and the addition of a potted history of the Celts and how Irish came about and went away, that is all known to anyone already literate in Irish or Irish American culture, and is only needed for the complete newcomer to such subjects, and I doubt that such a reader would start with this book. But, you never know, and if this does inspire such a quest, more power to the author and you the reader.
This book does deserve a wider audience among Irish wherever they live and all curious about the "first official language"; I only stumbled across it via an Amazon subject search, and I wish it gains more attention. I might add that some of the proposals for greater state recognition and services for Irish-speakers beyond lip service have been implemented two years after the 2001 date of Fallon's book. Whether these will help remains to be seen.
For more on these matters, see these newer titles, appearing after Fallon's book. These are all reviewed as well by me on Amazon: dense and scholarly: "The Irish Language in Ireland," Diarmuit MacGiollaChroist; short bilingual monograph: James McCloskey "Voices Silenced?"; essays by its speakers: Ciaran MacMurchaidh "Who Needs Irish?"; one man's depressing journey across the Celtic fringe: Marcus Tanner "The Last of the Celts." Another bilingual monograph, not listed on Amazon but available from the Dublin publisher Cois Life: Michael Cronin, "Irish in the New Century."
Superb!.......2002-04-07
Steve Fallon's Home with Alice, A Journey in Gaelic Ireland is first-rate travel literature. The author achieves just the right balance of telling us about his personal journey to explore his roots in Ireland and telling us about the people and places of Ireland itself. Having not yet traveled to Ireland myself, by the end of the book I almost felt like I had already been there. The writing is crystal-clear, and even the passages in which the author conjures up the ghost of his Aunt Alice seem refreshingly honest. There is a lot in this book about the history of Ireland and about the linguistic structure of the Irish Gaelic language, but even the most arcane bits of information are presented in an entertaining and engaging style. For anyone with a passing interest in the Emerald Isle - and that's probably you if you're reading this review - I can't recommend this book highly enough. If you're like me, you'll pick it up, you won't be able to put it down, and you'll be sorry when it's over. In short, an all-around terrific book and a pleasure to read.
Intresting exploration into Gaelic Ireland.......2002-03-29
Fallon's exploration of his Irish Gaelic roots makes for an interesting read. An Irish-American from Boston, he decides to learn Irish (Gaelic), and basically describes his efforts to learn and research the state of the language in modern Ireland, while at the same time pointing out some of the misconceptions between being "Irish" (i.e. American) and "Irish" (i.e. REAL Irish). He visits most of the areas of the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking regions), and what he finds doesn't seem to suggest (to me anyway), that the language is flourishing, despite major government efforts.
My main criticism is relatively minor. I would have liked to have a short chapter or appendix on the Irish language itself. Although he peppers his account with his attempts at Gaelic, there is no guide to pronounciation or general structure of the language. I'm not looking for a "Learn Irish in 20 lessons", but just a brief description to understand why it's so hard, etc.
The other criticism has to do with the periodic imaginary conversations with his aunt (Alice). They pop up now and then, and seem rather pointless. I don't think that's a bad idea, but he could have used it more strongly to explain differences between Irish-America, old and modern Ireland. Again, a minor quibble.
Overall, the subject matter is quite interesting, and Fallon writes well. If you're interested in Ireland and not just green beer and "erin go bragh" , it's highly recommended.
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Calvin Trillin goes through life one step behind his appetite. He says he's just a Big Hungry Boy from the Midwest, but he's also one of the funniest American writers around, writing a palate pilgrimage through Europe and the Caribbean, where Trillin fantasizes of an Italian West Indies island of Santo Prosciutto "whose steep hills are green with garlic plants." Trillin gives free play to other obsessions (like taureaux piscine), but most of the travels are happily fueled by thoughts of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
The humorist explores Europe and the Caribbean with his family, commenting on the events, etiquette and food they encounter. "If he were a stand-up comedian, these essays would be called routines," PW stated. "The peripatetic, insatiably curious Trillin is invariably entertaining."
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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