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Dinnertime is often one of the few times that busy families come together every day.
Pillsbury Doughboy Family Pleasing Recipes helps to make it a time to enjoy one another's company while savoring hearty, wholesome food. Here are 170 recipes that every member of the family will like--from Shell Pasta Chili Special to Giant Confetti Oatmeal Cookies. In addition, there are simple tips for getting kids to join in the fun of meal preparation, dressing up an everyday menu for festive entertaining, and putting meals on the table in record time. Of particular appeal to busy cooks are "sight recipes" that don't require a standard written recipe with ingredient list and steps, but rather a photograph and a quick description of how to assemble the dish in just one or two quick steps at home. They're the ultimate in ease and convenience! Full-color photographs and a cheerful, inviting design help to make this one of the cookbooks that busy moms, dads, and even kids will pull off the shelf night after night for meals the whole family will love.
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Pillsbury does it again!.......2007-03-09
Great book. Actually fun just to look at the pictures! Easy to follow recipes.
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- A Pulitzer Prize For Texana!
- An enjoyable, fact-filled, recommended blend
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The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music (Evelyn Oppenheimer Series, 2)
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A Pulitzer Prize For Texana!.......2002-11-18
Finally---the definitive history of The Light Crust Doughboys, one of the "big three" in the history of western swing and Texas-style country music (the other being Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys and Milton Brown's Musical Brownies). But this must-have book is so much more than a book: history "comes alive" with the included music CD which features a classic Doughboys' decade, the 1940s, alongside their contemporary Grammy-recognized work. And it's in this newer work that fans can really see the legacy and enduring power of a band that's been called country music's greatest historical band. In songs like "Texas Women", "Sending Me You", "Looking Through A Stained Glass Darkly", and "Amarillo, Where The Wind Blows Free, the reader can see how The Light Crust Doughboys keep evolving as artists while always keeping a foot in the best of their Texan and American past.The Light Crust Doughboys are one of the select bands in country music history equally renowned for their instrumental as well as their vocal prowess. Long known for their eclectic approach to music, combining elements of the blues, cowboy music, old-time, gospel, and dixieland, The Light Crust Doughboys are true American ambassadors and modern troubadours of American music. You'll read here of The Doughboys' pioneering use of electric guitar and electric bass in American music. You'll read that they pioneered being a western band in Hollywood's golden age (they pre-dated Bob Wills' film debut by four years). You'll read and hear how they combined gospel music and western swing (with gospel legend James Blackwood) to develop gospel western swing. You'll read how they came up with the idea of blending Pacific/California surf and Texas western swing with Ventures' guitar great, Nokie Edwards, resulting in critically-acclaimed roots music including an Americana Christmas album! Let's all hope that this book paves the way for long-overdue recognition in the NashVegas-dominated Country Music Hall of Fame as well as "early influences" recognition in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Is there a Pulitzer Prize for music history or Texana? This book and CD has earned it! And, do your heart and ears a big favor by searching for other Light Crust Doughboys' music and videos at Amazon.
An enjoyable, fact-filled, recommended blend.......2002-11-08
The Light Crust Doughboys Are On The Air: Celebrating Seventy Years Of Texas Music by John Mark Dempsey (a native Texan and Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism, University of North Texas) is an enjoyable and informative study of The Light Crust Doughboys band and their Texas music, which was broadcast in the "golden era" of radio. Their long-lived radio show lasted from 1930 to 1952, and their particular brand of gospel music was nominated for the Grammys in 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2002. An enjoyable, fact-filled, enthusiastically recommended blend of biographical background and cogent musical assessment of this evolving group, The Light Crust Doughboys Are On The Air is enhanced with a music CD featuring 30 of the band's most popular and beloved songs.
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The Doughboys were the more than three million men, many of them volunteers, recruited from the cities and farms of the United States, who traveled across the Atlantic to aid the Allies in the trenches and on the battlefields of World War I. Without their courage and determination, the outcome of the war would have been very different.
Drawing upon the often harrowing personal accounts of the soldiers of the AEF, The Doughboys establishes the pivotal role played by the Americans in the defeat of the Central powers in November 1918. Gary Mead brings together a rich selection of archive material in an engaging account that is part military history, part social analysis, part memoir. The Doughboys records the events of the war from the perspective of the United States, highlighting the crucial part played by the troops of the AEF and exposing the prickly, often turbulent relationship between the American and the Allied forces.
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Timelines.......2005-11-03
The author sets out his purpose, to set the record straight on Americans involvement in the Great War, right at the start of the book. The way he put the story together, with jumps in time & space, at first, it seemed like he was telling another story entirely since America had such a hard time right at the start of the war. Finally Mr. Mead, and America, gets his feet under him and the story takes off as success follows success. I especially enjoyed the emphasis on how abhorant the behavior of the British and the French were. While ultimately, they did try to teach us some useful information, their general treatment and demeanor, which caused Pershing to fight them nearly as often as the Germans, probably extended the war by a couple of months.
His chapters on the wars conclusions and aftermath were quite good as well.
While almost diametrically opposed in its treatment of the American military, this book is a good companion to Thomas Fleming's Illusion of Victory.
Yankee Doodle Dandy .......2005-10-14
The author is certainly right when he asserts that the American role in World War I has been downplayed by both the British and the French. The British and French would not have won their war with the Germans without the Americans. In 1918, the French were spent as an offensive force and the British didn't have the resources. Thus, I applaud the author's -- a Brit -- conclusion. Most European writers about the war are not so generous or objective.
Mead isn't sparing in his criticism of the perfidious and obnoxious French and some of the British allies of the Americans. Nor does he ignore the faults of Pershing and other American commanders, including President Woodrow Wilson who gets my vote as the most over-rated President in American history. The author's description of the racism in the American army is valuable.
The virtues of "Doughboys" include a chart that shows the Americans had taken over more of the front lines than the British by the end of the war and two useful closing chapters that tally up the cost of the war and the aftermath. But I question Mead's assertion that little has been written about the American participation in World War I. "Yanks" by John S.D. Eisenhower is a similar book I would recommend and I've read several others. Perhaps he means that little has been written about the American doughboys by English and French authors.
The defects of the book are lousy maps and poor descriptions of battles. The author jumps back and forth between the grand strategists and the boys in the trenches but doesn't do a very good job in making the battles comprehensible. The book needs more maps showing who was where and when. Also, don't anticipate this to be a book primarily about the doughboys on the front lines of the war. It's more of a general history of American participation rather than a worm's eye view, although the author tells some excellent stories of individual American soldiers.
Smallchief
America and the First World War.......2005-08-22
The title is slightly misleading. "The Doughboys" should be dropped as the more appropriate title is the subtitle "America and the First World War". If the reader is looking for a day to day account of the American doughboy, this book isn't it, but if you are looking for a detailed account of the roll America played in the great war, this book covers a tremendous amount of information.
There are certain portions of text devoted to the doughboys. For instance, 3 of the books 400 plus pages of text, tell of the heroics of Alvin York. Another 5 pages tell of Maj. Whittsley and the 77th Division, now known as the "Lost Battalion". But you will find little detail of the rigors endured by the American doughboy.
Just like the American involvement in the war, this book is painfully slow to get started. The first 100 pages seem to dredge at times as Mead's focus is on other aspects of war, such as financial backing from American bankers such as J.P. Morgan. Most of the next 50 or so pages address the logistical difficulties faced by Pershing in moving the massive numbers of troops into the campaign.
It is rather fitting and appropo that Mead, an Englishman, has so precisely outlined the American role in the war. Europeans yet today, tend to downplay the American roll, primarily because our causalties, though numerous, paled in comparison to the Frence and British losses, and our involvement came after several years of conflict, but Mead puts the importance of the American roll into it's proper perspective. Mead clearly deliniates that it was America's entrance into the fray that turned the tide on the Hun once and for all.
This is a very good book, loaded with factual accounts and statistics, but it is not an in-depth look at the Doughboys. Perhaps the book could have been more entertaining, but I cannot discredit the historical accuracy nor the volume of information contained here. If you seek a good accont of American involvement in the war, this is the book for you.
Monty Rainey
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Not Really the Story of the Doughboys.......2002-09-26
I concur with and commend the reviews by Donal A. O'Neill and Peter Lorenzi, above. The author, Gary Mead, presents a comprehensive survey of the Great War during 1918 with an emphasis on America's involvement during that year. However, Mead does not present the story of the doughboys.
I pre-ordered the book expecting real coverage of the soldier's experience, as suggested by the title, The Doughboys, and the editorial reviews (Booklist--"emphasizes the individual experiences of the doughboy," and Library Journal--"This is a soldier's story"). Instead, Gary Mead's engaging story mostly relates the macro story of America at war, and uses individual narratives sparely, situationally, and mostly to enliven the broad reporting.
Mead only superficially presents the doughboy's transition from civilian to solider, interaction with military personnel of other nations, or experience with European civilians. Even the combat sections provide only spare pictures of life in the trenches and actual fighting. Mead also omits some major experiences of the time. For example, although we can read in at least three places that soldiers became seasick during their Atlantic crossing, the flu epidemic of 1918 receives no mention-despite that the flu initially struck hardest at US military bases, killed some 43,000 soldiers during 1918-1919, and directly caused almost half of all American military deaths in Europe. Similarly, Mead omits any reference to the effect of anti-German sentiment in the US, which was a pervasive issue of the time, and affected tens of thousand of German-American doughboys.
As such, Mead's book should be read as a comprehensive introduction to America in World War I. Readers interested in social history, narrative history, or genealogy should plan to look elsewhere.
Masterfully Done...Unlikely Perspective.......2002-02-26
You know what's coming when you discover this history of American armed forces in World War One was written by an Englishman.
But you couldn't be more wrong.
Firstly, this is not one of those minute-by-minute descriptive accounts of every military engagement which involved American troops. True, as he must, Mead devotes objective analyses to the major encounters involving Doughboys. However, he devotes the major portion of his fascinating study to the battles that were fought behind the front lines...not against the German army, but rather among the so-called "Allies" themselves.
Mead is not subtle in his obvious dislike for Lloyd George and Clemenceau and he holds their feet to the fire for their hostility towards the country who sent its troops to Europe to rescue them from likely defeat. Ignored by many historians, but not by Mead, is the fact that while they were pleading for millions of American troops, the British, were refusing to supply trans-Atlantic troop transport unless American leaders agreed to have its troops fill in as replacements in the British and French armies...to fight under an alien flag.
Hostilities between Americans and French people grew to the point when, after the Armistice, some Doughboys questioned if they had fought on the right side.
Looking for the usual military history? If so, Mead's work is not for you. Looking instead a literary chateaubriand that sates the intellect? If so, this book is for you.
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I think that Black Jack would of approved.......2005-06-22
If you want to get a taste what it must of been like to have been an American Soldier in the War to end all wars. Then this is an excellent place to start. The Text is fast paced, lively and loaded with some really interesting details. The photo selection is really the only minor weak spot of this book. Oh did I mention that the Author lost a leg while with the Marines in France? Altogether an outstanding book to add to your collection.
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If you've ever laughed at the Pillsbury(r) Doughboy(tm), we've got a delightful book for you! Over 300 color pictures capture the Pillsbury Doughboy in all sorts of collectible roles, dating from 1971 to 2003. Here are hundreds of Doughboy(tm) dolls, cookie jars, salt and pepper shakers, kitchen ware, banks, Christmas items, Bake-off plates, and many more, each described in detail with their manufacturer and estimated value range. Advertising prowess has made this adorable icon of the baking industry recognized around the world. Now collectors vie for his image on all sorts of items. Start a collection of your own, with this book as your guide, and laugh again. 8 1/2" x 11" 302 color Price guide/Index
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Portrait of War tells the gripping true story of eight graphic artists recruited by the government and sent into combat to create a visual historical record of World War I. Featuring both their stunning illustrations and deep personal reflections, Portrait of War is a moving testament to the bravery of these artist-soldiers and the remarkable record of war they left behind.
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Refreshing Look at WWI.......2006-10-31
PORTRAIT OF WAR reads like a novel - it was a pleasure. There are great characters, drama, an honest portrayal of war. And while the art of the combat artists is discussed somewhat, the balance is perfect by not overindulging in art theory, etc. Too many history books are not accessible to the average reader - they're too long or too dense - but not this one. I even gave it to my young teenager to read and he's thoroughly enjoying it.
Spectacle of Spectacles.......2006-10-25
Although the so-called "Great War" ended nearly ninety years ago, there are still new stories to be told, and Peter Krass, author of a fine biography of Andrew Carnegie, has written one of them. Plus he was lucky enough to secure the cooperation of one of his subject's sons, George Harding Junior, who opened his father's archive to apparently unrestricted use, a true coup for a biographer.
Not that this is a biography in any real sense, for the action takes place during an intense period of two years, and an epilogue briefly charts the postwar lives of his eight subjects, a paragraph apiece. Amazingly none of them were killed in the War. What a difference from the British and French artists who these American men were imitating! As Krass tells it, all one hundred of the British "official artists" were mowed down in the slaughterhouse that was Europe.
Perhaps inevitably. the lives of these men after the war don't seem very interesting after the thrills and the horrors they experienced, but one or two of them left hints of interesting careers that I hope get explored in later volumes. Harding himself, if you can imagine, volunteered again in the SECOND World War, becoming the only artist brave enough, or crazy enough, to sign on in both wars. J. Andre Smith became a "pioneer of surrealism," whatever that means, and suffered from phantom pain all his life after his right leg was amputated above the knee. (Harding and Smith managed to live all the way through to 1959, though none of the artists made it to the 1960s.) Ernest Peixotto became a famous muralist and art activist, particularly in New York during the Depression and the WPA years, serving under Fiorello LaGuardia. The rest of them had OK careers.
The day to day adventures of these 8 captains are remarkably well documented in a steady stream of letters home, personal diaries, after-the-war memoirs, and beyond these, the art works themselves created by these men, a body of work comprising over 500 different pieces (now owned by the Smithsonian). From Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood, they went scouting for materials on which to build propaganda. That was their mission pure and simple. The AEF hired them for one reason alone, to bring the war home, or perhaps to dissolve the boundaries between war and home so that more recruits would come to replace the bodies of their fallen comrades. Harry Townsend despaired of war, as he viewed the bodies at Chateau Thierry--too many to bury, heaped up like sardines, thousands and thousands of men. Rumors spread that the powers that be intended to leave them there until all were nothing but bones, for cleanup would be easier that way. "What a thought," Townsend added with disgust. A Christian Scientist by nature, he believed that healing and prayer would shield him from the worst, but when the shells came rattling down on his tin roof, he couldn't even sleep.
The book is packed with marvelous scenes: Peixotto and Morgan passing through ruined villages so bombarded that now they "resembled only the reefs of some coral islands." On the St. Mihiel front, a stunned Harding takes a moment to jot down, frantically, the sights and sounds "swirling" around him: "5 Amer dead, high explosive, one's brain entirely out, the dead horses . . . slept in car, no food 36 hours, started at 5:30 a.m. went on and on . . ." One would like to see an exhibition of the best of this work, which Krass responds to with a connoisseur's eye and a fine gift for vivid description. Then raise a glass to the men who never came back, whose bones still live while they're "over over there."
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Want to come home every night to a hot, hearty meal ready and waiting? Now you can. From America’s most trusted kitchens come a cookbook with 140 slow cooker recipes fro main dishes, side dishes, soups and more!
- Honey-Dijon Pork Roast
- Mango Chutney-Chicken Curry
- Creamy Butternut Squash Soup
- Winter Vegetables Stew
- Texas Chili
- Hot Turkey Sandwiches
- Old Fashioned Baked Beans
- Garlic Smashed Red Potatoes
Customer Reviews:
Good Cookbook for your recipe collection!.......2007-01-20
This large cookbook has color photos with some of the recipes. It starts with an introduction that explains basic slower cooker tips (timing, flavor, altitude adjustments, basics, etc.) It has 5 categories:
1. Meaty Main Dishes
2. Busy-Day Chicken and Turkey
3. Super Soups, Stews and Chiles
4. Slow-Cooked Sandwiches
5. Very Easy Vegetables and Sides
Plus it has an index in the back of the book that is helpful.
Some interesting recipes such as "Key West Ribs" that has a citrus flavor and "Thai Peanut Chicken" for something new. There are also favorites like "Bratwurst and Sauerkraut" and "Family Favorite Beef Stew." This cookbook is well worth buying because of the wide variety of recipes.
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How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy experience in 1917--18 forged the U.S. Army of the twentieth century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation's history -- the G.I. Bill.
Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. The experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers, Keene finally argues, in ways she asks us to ponder. She finds that the country and the conscripts -- in their view -- entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century.
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World War I Did Change American Society.......2001-11-21
Americans have largely forgoten the United States war effort during World War I. There are obvious reasons for this -- the larger role played during World War II, the failure of the politicians to live up to the rhetoric of lasting peace, the limited combat exposure and comparatively low casualties suffered by US troops, etc. But World War I did more than prepare the US for World War II, it fundamentaly changed a whole generation of Americans (Stein called Hemingway and company the lost generation because of World WarI) and as Keane effectively argues changed the way the Army works and the nature of the social contract between citizens and the government. Along the way Keane discusses changes in Army procedures and, somewhat disapointingly, the precarious nature race relations during the war. This book exposes little that is relavatory to those who study American history, but by skillfully aranging the facts and details that are known or obvious Keane carefully builds an air tight case in support of her thesis: The soldiers who served during World War I paved the way not only for the GI Bill but for a wider acceptance of government aid to those in need. The modern concept of Entightlements began with the veterans of the "War To End All Wars."
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- A gripping portrait of war
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Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I
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A gripping portrait of war.......2000-06-07
It has become fashionable for writers to do oral histories of events. In this case, James Hallas has done a masterful job of weaving the memoirs of World War One veterans into a seamless tapestry that encompasses the experience of that war from call-up to homecoming. His selections are flawless and it is fortunate that a body of literature dealing with the inappropriately named "war to end all wars" exists, that some of the veterans -- a large number of whom were enlisted men -- chose to put their experience in writing. Considering that a large number of the soldiers were recent immigrants and that almost 13% who served were illiterate, the wealth of writing is impressive. The war was truly an everyman's endeavor with those from all walks of life serving. Interestingly, two thirds of those who went overseas in World War One saw combat. And what combat it was! Little understanding the damage that modern machines of war could do, the slaughter in the battles was a direct result of tacticians who didn't realize that the combination of barbed wire and grazing machine gun fire, not to mention artillery, would almost completely annihilate attacking troops. There was still hand to hand combat and bayonets were frequently used, in contrast to later conflicts.
Even though the United States did not enter the war until April 1917 and didn't engage in battle until the fall of that year, war's end saw over 80,000 killed in action. The poignancy of having friends buried in shallow graves on the battle fields, or seeing them mangled or "blown to atoms" by shellfire is recounted. As if the horrors of the warfare were not enough, the influenza epidemic killed thousands in 1918. The doughboy's war is vividly portrayed by these carefully edited anecdotes and should serve as a reminder of all those men who went to France "to make the world safe for democracy." These verbal vignettes open a window on the past and as they are strung together with historical commentary by the editor are extraordinarily gripping. That the experiences of these warriors is collected is a great service to all Americans. As Mr. Hallas notes, "Their experience remained uniquely theirs, a cup both bitter and sweet to be shared most fully only with one another."
Get this book, read it and be grateful for those for whom duty was more than just a word.
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