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Book Tap Dancing on a Hot Skillet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Brie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-08
  • ISBN : 9781735135922
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Tap Dancing on a Hot Skillet written by Gabrielle Brie and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tap Dancing on a Hot Skillet is Gabrielle's debut memoir-a coming of age story about growing up in a Jewish family of six in the Deep South of the 1950s and '60s. As if navigating the racially charged atmosphere of the times is not challenge enough, the secrets her father has brought into his marriage causes him to swing from loving to unpredictably volatile at the spin of a dime. As the oldest, her desire to protect her three younger siblings from the chaos and injustices inside and outside her home is made harder by an emotionally absent mother. Using a combination of personal stories set against a backdrop of cultural context-the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam war, and pop culture references of films and music (from Elvis to the Beatles)-Gabrielle creates a scaffolding by which to hang the evolving angst of the '60s contrasted with the naiveté of the '50s told through the eyes of a young person caught at the center. The stories are told with a keen sense of visual detail, southern wit, and an authentic adolescent voice that helps the characters dance off the page and sit right along next to you.

Book 78 Blues

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Minton
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2009-10-08
  • ISBN : 1604733276
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book 78 Blues written by John Minton and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology would change the dynamics of what constituted a musical performance. 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South covers a revolution in artist performance and audience perception through close examination of hundreds of key “hillbilly” and “race” records released between the 1920s and World War II. In the postwar period, regional strains recorded on pioneering 78 r.p.m. discs exploded into urban blues and R&B, honky-tonk and western swing, gospel, soul, and rock 'n' roll. These old-time records preserve the work of some of America's greatest musical geniuses such as Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Charlie Poole, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. They are also crucial mile markers in the course of American popular music and the growth of the modern recording industry. When these records first circulated, the very notion of recorded music was still a novelty. All music had been created live and tied to particular, intimate occasions. How were listeners to understand an impersonal technology like the phonograph record as a musical event? How could they reconcile firsthand interactions and traditional customs with technological innovations and mass media? The records themselves, several hundred of which are explored fully in this book, offer answers in scores of spoken commentaries and skits, in song lyrics and monologues, or other more subtle means.

Book The Border Cookbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cheryl Jamison
  • Publisher : Harvard Common Press
  • Release : 1995-09-28
  • ISBN : 1558325352
  • Pages : 754 pages

Download or read book The Border Cookbook written by Cheryl Jamison and published by Harvard Common Press. This book was released on 1995-09-28 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, Southwestern food is a hugely popular trend. As ingredients are becoming more readily available to at-home cooks, there is a great demand for simple, delicious, and authentic recipes that bring Mexican and Southwestern food to our own tables. In their James Beard Book Award-winning cookbook, authors Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison combine the best of Mexican and Southwest cooking, bringing together this large region's Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo culinary roots into one big, exuberant book - The Border Cookbook. In over 300 recipes they explore the common elements and regional differences of border cooking. They offer classic and new recipes that typify cuisines known as Tex-Mex, New Mexican, Sonoran, Cal-Mex, traditional Mexican, Gulf cuisine, and Native American; and their easy-to-follow recipes are suitable for every meal, every day of the week.

Book The Dancing Gourmet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Hymes
  • Publisher : Lindergaff Books, LLC
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780971978201
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book The Dancing Gourmet written by Linda Hymes and published by Lindergaff Books, LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner 2002 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Photography/Illustration! Professional ballerina and Le Cordon Bleu chef Linda Hymes marries the culinary and performing arts with over 100 easy to prepare recipes. Clear and concise step-by-step instructions create casual yet elegant meals that rely on healthy ingredients and vibrant spices. This unique book is a must for every cookbook lover!

Book Waiting

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Moore-Lanning
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1603443797
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Waiting written by Linda Moore-Lanning and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Best Recipe

Download or read book The New Best Recipe written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the editors of Cook's Illustrated"--Dust jacket.

Book Pure Pork Awesomeness

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  • Author : Kevin Gillespie
  • Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Release : 2015-03-31
  • ISBN : 144947019X
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Pure Pork Awesomeness written by Kevin Gillespie and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like Bubba Gump and his shrimp, I have a million ways to cook pork because I love it so much. If I had only one animal to eat forevermore, I would eat pigs. You could have a pork chop one day, pulled pork another, and cured bacon the next day, and they’d all taste completely different. You can't do that with chicken. Chicken tastes like chicken no matter what part of the animal you eat. And I love beef and lamb, but they don't have the amazing versatility of pork. Pork can be the star of the show or a background flavor. But no matter where it shows up, pork is always welcome on my table." ---from the introduction, Kiss a Pig On Bravo TV's season six of Top Chef, Kevin Gillespie became known for his love of pork. He literally wears it on his sleeve with his forearm tatoo. His first book, Fire in My Belly, a James Beard Award finalist, included his famous Bacon Jam. Now he shares his passion and love of pork in a book devoted entirely to the subject. Pure Pork Awesomeness celebrates pork's delicious versatility with more than 100 easy-to-follow recipes. Dig into everything from Bacon Popcorn and Bourbon Street Pork Chops to Korean Barbecued Pork Bulgogi, Vietnamese Spareribs with Chile and Lemongrass, and Banoffee Trifle with Candied Bacon. Organized like the pig itself, recipes use every cut of pork from shoulder and tenderloin to pork belly and ham. Find out how to buy the best-tasting pork available, differences among heritage breeds of pigs, and what to do with new cuts like "ribeye of pork". . . all from a witty, talented chef who knows the ins and outs of cooking pork at home.

Book My Life a Memoir

Download or read book My Life a Memoir written by Gloria Ray and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jamaica Mi Hungry

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  • Author : Kateri Young
  • Publisher : Purple Diamond Publishing
  • Release : 2014-11-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Jamaica Mi Hungry written by Kateri Young and published by Purple Diamond Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, my house was always filled with the smells of Jamaica. I lived with my mom and grandparents who were born in St. Anne’s. My grandfather would make breakfast for me four times a week. Fanny would make breakfast the other days. I always knew what was for breakfast by the music playing; I loved when I woke up to Bob Marley, an instant smile spread across my face. Why? Because that meant that, it was Cornmeal Porridge day or my Fanny’s famous oatmeal. That recipe was brought down by Nana, affectionately known in St. Anne’s as Aunt Mim. When we heard Garnett Silk, it was Ackee and Salt fish for breakfast. So much music, so much food!

Book Dancing After Hours

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andre Dubus
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 1997-03-04
  • ISBN : 0679751149
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dancing After Hours written by Andre Dubus and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1997-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor. "A master of the short story...It's good to have Andre Dubus back. More than ever, he is an object of hope."--Philadelphia Inquirer "Dubus's detailed creation of three-dimensional characters is propelled by his ability to turn a quiet but perfect phrase...[This] kind of writing raises gooseflesh of admiration."--San Francisco Chronicle

Book The Country Gentleman

Download or read book The Country Gentleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dancing Goddesses  Folklore  Archaeology  and the Origins of European Dance

Download or read book The Dancing Goddesses Folklore Archaeology and the Origins of European Dance written by E. J. W. Barber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic and archaeological exploration of ancient traditions and folklore pertaining to "dancing goddesses" traces their roots in early Roman, Greek, and European cultures to reveal the origins of modern customs.

Book The Crooked Stovepipe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Craig Mishler
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780252019968
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Crooked Stovepipe written by Craig Mishler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for a popular local fiddle tune, The Crooked Stovepipe is a rollicking, detailed, first-ever study of the indigenous fiddle music and social dancing enjoyed by the Gwich'in Athapaskan Indians and other tribal groups in northeast Alaska, the Yukon, and the northwest territories. Though the music has obvious roots in the British Isles, French Canada, and the American South, the Gwich'in have used it in shaping their own aesthetic, which is apparent in their choice of fiddle tunings, bowing techniques, foot clogging, and a distinctively stratified tune repertoire. Craig Mishler treats this rural subarctic artistic tradition as a distinctive regional style akin to Cajun, bluegrass, or string-band music. He uses convergence theory as the framework for showing how this aesthetic came about. His skillful use of personal anecdotes, interviews, music examples, dance diagrams, and photographs will appeal to general readers interested in folk music and dance, as well as to specialists.

Book Family Dancing

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Leavitt
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 1620407043
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Family Dancing written by David Leavitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories presents families all unhappy in different ways, including a mother who presides over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter, yet has trouble accepting her son's lover.

Book Christina Pirello s Wellness 1000 Deluxe

Download or read book Christina Pirello s Wellness 1000 Deluxe written by Christina Pirello and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deluxe edition of Christina Pirello’s Wellness 1000 features the complete text, more than 25 exclusive, original videos featuring cooking techniques, health tips and key nutritional and ingredient information, and more than 70 color photos of dishes from the book. This collection of more than 1,000 recipes, tips, techniques and health information draws together the best of Christina’s work from the last two decades. Featuring updated and revised selections from her half-dozen or more cookbooks and recipes from her website, Christina Pirello’s Wellness 1000 is more than a cookbook. From basic stocks, sauces and dressings to soup, salads, and main dishes to special sections on tempeh, grains, tofu, and desserts, this comprehensive guide to healthful cooking and living also includes a “kitchen pharmacy” of natural home remedies, an extensive glossary and a guide to kitchen staples. Throughout, Christina offers sound advice and useful information to help readers make the best choices for themselves and their families, and gives them the most important tool available to change their health -- and to change the world: cooking and eating real food.

Book Flowing Tides

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 0199380090
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Flowing Tides written by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the first time, this remarkable soundscape is explored by an insider-a fourth generation Clare concertina player, uilleann piper and an internationally recognized authority on Irish traditional music. Entrusted with the testimonies, tune lore, and historic field recordings of Clare performers, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin reveals why this ancient place is a site of musical pilgrimage and how it absorbed the impact of global cultural flows for centuries. These flows brought musical change inwards, while simultaneously facilitating outflows of musical change to the world beyond - in more recent times, through the music of Clare stars like Martin Hayes and the Kilfenora Céilí Band. Placing the testimony of music and music makers at the center of Irish cultural history and working from a palette of disciplines, Flowing Tides explores an Irish soundscape undergoing radical change in the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the Great Famine, from the birth of the nation state to the meteoric rise-and fall-of the Celtic Tiger. It is essential reading for all interested in Irish/Celtic music and culture.

Book Dancing with the Dead

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Lutz
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2011-06-14
  • ISBN : 145321903X
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Dancing with the Dead written by John Lutz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIV /divDIVAn amateur ballroom dancer is targeted by a serial killer in this riveting mystery by veteran John Lutz/divDIV /divDIVMary Arlington only feels alive when she is dancing. The rest of her life, dominated by a violent boyfriend and a mother intent on drinking herself to death, isn’t worth being awake for, but when she dances the tango her troubles disappear. She’s gotten so good that her studio is taking her to the national competition in Ohio, where she will prove to the world and to herself that her hobby is more than a pastime. That is, if she can stay alive until the music starts to play./divDIV /divDIVAt dance competitions across the country, amateur dancers have been turning up with slit throats. Mary follows the killing spree in the newspapers, morbidly fascinated by the deaths of women so similar to her. When the killer comes for her, she will need more than rhythm to survive./divDIV /divThis ebook features an illustrated biography of John Lutz including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. /div