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Book Mashed Potato Mountain

Download or read book Mashed Potato Mountain written by Laurel Dee Gugler and published by Windsor, Ont. : Black Moss Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poppy Cooks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Poppy O'Toole
  • Publisher : Appetite by Random House
  • Release : 2021-11-09
  • ISBN : 052561205X
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Poppy Cooks written by Poppy O'Toole and published by Appetite by Random House. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Poppy’s] recipes are unshowy, unfussy (for all her Michelin training) and simply make you want to go skipping into the kitchen to cook."—Nigella Lawson, Nigella.com With Chef and TikTok sensation Poppy O’Toole you'll learn the basics, up your cooking game, with delicious results every time. This is a cookbook with no judgement. Together, we’ll learn how to make incredible food at home. We’ll start with the basics: 12 core recipes (or go-to skills) that everyone needs to know, like how to make a pasta sauce, roast a chicken or make a killer salad dressing. Then we’ll use these core skills as a base for delicious and adaptable recipes that will up your cooking game—the Staple, the Brunch, the Potato Hero (of course they make an appearance) and the Fancy AF. So, once you’ve nailed that classic tomato sauce (which I promise will become the new go-to in your kitchen), you can stir it through pasta, or bake it with eggs for the perfect Shakshuka and, before you know it, you’ll be getting real fancy and making a show-stopping Chicken Parmigiana to impress your friends. I'll walk you through 75 delicious recipes, including: White Sauce: think Mac and Cheese and Bacon-y Garlicky Gratin. Dough: easy flatbreads for Halloumi Avo Breads and Salmon Tikka wraps. Emulsions: Chicken Caesar Salad with homemade mayo and next level Steak Béarnaise with Hollandaise and Crunchy Roast Chips. Meringue: from Eton Mess Pancakes through to Simply the Zest Lemon Meringue Pie Whether you’re completely new to the kitchen or looking to elevate your basics with clever tricks, my step-by-step guidance will help you nail delicious food every time. As a Michelin-trained chef with over ten years’ experience in professional kitchens, I’ve done the years of training so you don’t have to. It’s okay to make a few mistakes along the way, and together, we'll help you fix them and achieve incredible results at home. I am passionate about the importance of great food at home, every day—it’s what we all deserve. This is not just the food you want. It’s the food you need.

Book Helvetic Kitchen

Download or read book Helvetic Kitchen written by Andie Pilot and published by Bergli. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andie Pilot takes readers on a photographic tour of her favorite recipes--some just like her grandmother made and some modern takes on Swiss classics. With dishes for every time of day, both sweet and savory, the book includes recipes for every chef from Birchermüesli to fondue, Capuns to Rüeblitorte, Andie Pilot makes Swiss cooking easy--and illuminates many of Swiss cuisine's curiosities."--back cover.

Book Mashed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Holly Herrick
  • Publisher : Gibbs Smith
  • Release : 2016-09-06
  • ISBN : 1423644484
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book Mashed written by Holly Herrick and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning food writer and author of Tart Love shows you there’s more to mash than potatoes with this amazing collection of recipes. This fresh take on classic comfort foods includes not only delicious variants on mashed potato dishes, but also gratins, soups, dips, sauces, guacamoles, pâtés, casseroles, panna cottas, and sorbets made with a plethora of vegetables, fruits, beans, grains, nuts, eggs, and even meats. Hot or cold, savory or sweet, classic or innovative, rustic or elegant, Mashed shows that mashing doesn’t need to stop at just traditional mashed potatoes. “Mashes are redolent of homey comfort, yet can also be sophisticated and elegant, perfect dinner party fare.... This beautiful book carries you through the seasons with recipes that are fresh, simple, and out-of-this-world delicious.”—Jamie Schler, Huffington Post

Book Victuals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronni Lundy
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter
  • Release : 2016-08-30
  • ISBN : 080418674X
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Victuals written by Ronni Lundy and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year Award and Best Book, American Cooking, Victuals is an exploration of the foodways, people, and places of Appalachia. Written by Ronni Lundy, regarded as the most engaging authority on the region, Victuals guides us through the surprisingly diverse history--and vibrant present--of food in the Mountain South. Victuals explores the diverse and complex food scene of the Mountain South through recipes, stories, traditions, and innovations. Each chapter explores a specific defining food or tradition of the region--such as salt, beans, corn (and corn liquor). The essays introduce readers to their rich histories and the farmers, curers, hunters, and chefs who define the region's contemporary landscape. Sitting at a diverse intersection of cuisines, Appalachia offers a wide range of ingredients and products that can be transformed using traditional methods and contemporary applications. Through 80 recipes and stories gathered on her travels in the region, Lundy shares dishes that distill the story and flavors of the Mountain South. – Epicurious: Best Cookbooks of 2016

Book Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home

Download or read book Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home written by Julia Child and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two legendary cooks invite us into their kitchen and show us the basics of good home cooking. Julia Child and Jacques Pépin are synonymous with good food, and in these pages they demonstrate techniques (on which they don’t always agree), discuss ingredients, improvise, balance flavors to round out a meal, and conjure up new dishes from leftovers. Center stage are carefully spelled-out recipes flanked by Julia’s and Jacques’s comments—the accumulated wisdom of two lifetimes of honing their cooking skills. Nothing is written in stone, they imply. And that is one of the most important lessons for every good cook. So sharpen your knives and join in the fun as you learn to make: • Appetizers: from traditional and instant gravlax to your own sausage in brioche and a country pâté • Soups: from New England chicken chowder and onion soup gratinée to Mediterranean seafood stew and that creamy essence of mussels, billi-bi • Eggs: omelets and “tortillas”; scrambled, poached, and coddled eggs; eggs as a liaison for sauces and as the puffing power for soufflés • Salads and Sandwiches: basic green and near-Niçoise salads; a crusty round seafood-stuffed bread, a lobster roll, and a pan bagnat • Potatoes: baked, mashed, hash-browned, scalloped, souffléd, and French-fried • Vegetables: the favorites from artichokes to tomatoes, blanched, steamed, sautéed, braised, glazed, and gratinéed • Fish: familiar varieties whole and filleted (with step-by-step instructions for preparing your own), steamed en papillote, grilled, seared, roasted, and poached, plus a classic sole meunière and the essentials of lobster cookery • Poultry: the perfect roast chicken (Julia’s way and Jacques’s way); holiday turkey, Julia’s deconstructed and Jacques’s galantine; their two novel approaches to duck • Meat: the right technique for each cut of meat (along with lessons in cutting up), from steaks and hamburger to boeuf bourguignon and roast leg of lamb • Desserts: crème caramel, profiteroles, chocolate roulade, free-form apple tart—as you make them you’ll learn all the important building blocks for handling dough, cooking custards, preparing fillings and frostings • And much, much more . . . Throughout this richly illustrated book you’ll see Julia’s and Jacques’s hands at work, and you’ll sense the pleasure the two are having cooking together, tasting, exchanging ideas, and raising a glass to savor the fruits of their labor. Again and again they demonstrate that cooking is endlessly fascinating and challenging and, while ultimately personal, it is a joy to be shared.

Book Potato Mountain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brent McClun
  • Publisher : Westview Pub Incorporated
  • Release : 2007-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781933912721
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Potato Mountain written by Brent McClun and published by Westview Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not simply about recipes - it also contains stories, lessons, trivia, and more. Prior to each recipe, a relevant story designed to encourage, inspire, or just entertain is presented. Later in the book, these stories are replaced by Potato Mountain Creative Cooking Tips. These tips are designed to help you broaden your horizons in the kitchen. Following each story or creative cooking tip, you will find brief trivia or information on the mountain after which the potato dish is named. Then you will find basic ingredients, and in most cases you will see two options . a non-frying option and a fry option. This book is not so much about recipes as it is teaching and encouraging you to find and to create harmony in cooking. Most cookbooks give you recipes. The Potato Mountain method is designed to allow you to create recipes by learning to cook outside the box. The Potato Mountain Creative Cooking methods are about learning new ways of thinking and doing. These new ways of thinking and doing will compliment things you already know and do in the kitchen. This book is about becoming aware of the different parts that make a great song - a song you can taste and a song you'll want to sing over and over again. A song that will become a favorite and that can be arranged in many different ways to the enjoyment of all who hear it.

Book Smitten Kitchen Every Day

Download or read book Smitten Kitchen Every Day written by Deb Perelman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook—this everyday cookbook is “filled with fun and easy ... recipes that will have you actually looking forward to hitting the kitchen at the end of a long work day” (Bustle). A happy discovery in the kitchen has the ability to completely change the course of your day. Whether we’re cooking for ourselves, for a date night in, for a Sunday supper with friends, or for family on a busy weeknight, we all want recipes that are unfussy to make with triumphant results. Deb Perelman, award-winning blogger, thinks that cooking should be an escape from drudgery. Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites presents more than one hundred impossible-to-resist recipes—almost all of them brand-new, plus a few favorites from her website—that will make you want to stop what you’re doing right now and cook. These are real recipes for real people—people with busy lives who don’t want to sacrifice flavor or quality to eat meals they’re really excited about. You’ll want to put these recipes in your Forever Files: Sticky Toffee Waffles (sticky toffee pudding you can eat for breakfast), Everything Drop Biscuits with Cream Cheese, and Magical Two-Ingredient Oat Brittle (a happy accident). There’s a (hopelessly, unapologetically inauthentic) Kale Caesar with Broken Eggs and Crushed Croutons, a Mango Apple Ceviche with Sunflower Seeds, and a Grandma-Style Chicken Noodle Soup that fixes everything. You can make Leek, Feta, and Greens Spiral Pie, crunchy Brussels and Three Cheese Pasta Bake that tastes better with brussels sprouts than without, Beefsteak Skirt Steak Salad, and Bacony Baked Pintos with the Works (as in, giant bowls of beans that you can dip into like nachos). And, of course, no meal is complete without cake (and cookies and pies and puddings): Chocolate Peanut Butter Icebox Cake (the icebox cake to end all icebox cakes), Pretzel Linzers with Salted Caramel, Strawberry Cloud Cookies, Bake Sale Winning-est Gooey Oat Bars, as well as the ultimate Party Cake Builder—four one-bowl cakes for all occasions with mix-and-match frostings (bonus: less time spent doing dishes means everybody wins). Written with Deb’s trademark humor and gorgeously illustrated with her own photographs, Smitten Kitchen Every Day is filled with what are sure to be your new favorite things to cook. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!

Book Mountain

Download or read book Mountain written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning book all about mountains takes children on a grand tour of the highest places on Earth. From the salt flats of the Andes to the snow-capped peak of Mount Fuji, discover 14 of the world’s most spectacular mountains and mountain ranges, and the animals and plants that live in them. The chapters cover four different types of mountains: plateaus, volcanoes, mountain ranges, and tepuis, with a selection of both famous and less-well known places within each. Every mountain or range is explored in detail, with intriguing information about its geography and flora and fauna, alongside detailed photography and beautiful illustrations. Marvel at the Great Aletsch Glacier flowing down the Alps, mountain goats scrambling across cliff faces in the Rockies, and the tiny saltwort flowers that bloom 20,000 feet up in the Himalayas. As well as the wonders of these remote areas, the threats facing mountains and their species are also investigated. Habitat: Mountains will be treasured for years to come. With foil on the cover and colorful sprayed edges, this book makes the perfect gift for any child with a passion for the natural world.

Book The Simple Bites Kitchen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aimee Wimbush-Bourque
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 0735232970
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Simple Bites Kitchen written by Aimee Wimbush-Bourque and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Winner for Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2017 - Family Books Winner of the 2018 Taste Canada Awards - General Cookbooks, Silver Delicious, wholesome family-friendly recipes from the creator of the award-winning Simple Bites blog Toasty warm in the winter and cool in the summer, Aimée’s comfortable kitchen is a place where the family gathers, cooks together, and celebrates everyday life. In The Simple Bites Kitchen, she brings her love of whole foods to the table and shares heart-warming kitchen stories and recipes that are nutritious, fairly simple to make, and utterly delicious. Aimée knows the challenges that come with feeding a family and tackles them head on by providing lunchbox inspiration, supper solutions and healthy snack options. Aimée’s collection of 100 wholesome recipes draws on her experience as a mom and a seasoned cook and is brimming with fresh ingredients and simple instructions so that you can cook with confidence knowing you’re providing your family with healthy and great-tasting meals. You and your family will enjoy recipes from Overnight Spiced Stollen Swirl Buns and Maple-Roasted Pears with Granola for breakfast, Tequila-Lime Barbecue Chicken and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie for a fresh air feast, garden-inspired recipes like Harvest Corn Chowder and Lentil Cottage Pie with Rutabaga Mash, and family dinner favourites like Roast Chicken with Bay Leaf and Barley and Cranberry-Glazed Turkey Meatloaf with Baked Sweet Potatoes. Filled with beautiful photography, The Simple Bites Kitchen also includes recipes to keep your preserves pantry well-stocked all year, tips, simple tutorials and inspiration and ideas for homespun hospitality.

Book Potato

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Reader
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300153996
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Potato written by John Reader and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potato--humble, lumpy, bland, familiar--is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader's narrative on the role of the potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remarkable tuber. From domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as the world's fourth largest food crop, the potato has played a starring--or at least supporting--role in many chapters of human history. In this witty and engaging book, Reader opens our eyes to the power of the potato. Whether embraced as the solution to hunger or wielded as a weapon of exploitation, blamed for famine and death or recognized for spurring progress, the potato has often changed the course of human events. Reader focuses on sixteenth-century South America, where the indigenous potato enabled Spanish conquerors to feed thousands of conscripted native people; eighteenth-century Europe, where the nutrition-packed potato brought about a population explosion; and today's global world, where the potato is an essential food source but also the world's most chemically-dependent crop. Where potatoes have been adopted as a staple food, social change has always followed. It may be "just" a humble vegetable, John Reader shows, yet the history of the potato has been anything but dull.

Book Indian Ish

    Book Details:
  • Author : Priya Krishna
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
  • Release : 2019-04-23
  • ISBN : 1328482472
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Indian Ish written by Priya Krishna and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young food writer's witty and irresistible celebration of her mom's "Indian-ish" cooking--with accessible and innovative Indian-American recipes

Book Mad Hungry Family

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucinda Scala Quinn
  • Publisher : Artisan Books
  • Release : 2016-09-27
  • ISBN : 1579656641
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Mad Hungry Family written by Lucinda Scala Quinn and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the beloved Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys, Lucinda Scala Quinn is the country’s foremost evangelist for family meals every day of the week. And she knows that the only way to make them a reality is by building a repertoire of dishes that are quick and easy to prepare, and guaranteed to please. In Mad Hungry Family, Scala Quinn has collected all the no-fuss, big-flavor recipes that send her family stampeding to the kitchen table—from flat roast chicken to second-day spaghetti pancakes—and peppered them with tips, tricks, and solutions learned over a lifetime of cooking both professionally and for her family of five. Here are survival strategies for nothing-in-the-fridge crises, feeding unexpected guests, getting Thanksgiving dinner on the table before your family revolts, and more. Also included are primers on the ingredients and techniques you need—and permission to ignore those you don’t. With soulful, satisfying recipes and real talk about what it takes to make family meals a reality, Mad Hungry Family is the “you-can-do-this” handbook every home cook needs.

Book Awards for Good Boys

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shelby Lorman
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2019-06-04
  • ISBN : 0143134310
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Awards for Good Boys written by Shelby Lorman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book.” —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life “The rare Instagram-turned-book that actually works.” —Jezebel A wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating in a patriarchal culture that celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of human decency Surely you’re familiar with good boys. They’re the ones who put “feminist” in their Tinder bio but talk over you the entire date. They ghost you, but they feel momentarily guilty. They once read a book by a woman author. (It was required, but they thought it was “okay.”) And of course, they bravely condemn sexual harassment (except when the perpetrator is their buddy Chad). This book explores why so-called and self-proclaimed good boys are actually not so great, breaking down our obsession with celebrating male mediocrity and rewarding those who clear the very low bar of not being outwardly awful. Through clever illustrations and written vignettes, Awards for Good Boys makes literal the tendency to applaud men for doing the absolute least and offers hilarious and cathartic cultural commentary through which we may begin to unravel our own assumptions about gender roles and how we treat each other, both on and offline.

Book Adam Rowan and the Heart of the Mountain

Download or read book Adam Rowan and the Heart of the Mountain written by Michael Dawn Brooks and published by EleventyFirst Publications. This book was released on with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A week ago, Adam Rowan thought he understood life and his place in it. But after meeting Misty Fairchild in an exploding diner and becoming embroiled in her life-or-death struggle, everything is flipped on its head. His family is not who he thought they were, and now he has to deal with the fallout of Mentor's machinations. His home overrun with refugees from the New Mexico base, he's figuring out his new-found feelings for Misty and how to deal with her ex, Jason, all while coming to terms with a lifetime of lies from his family. Oh, and did we mention the aliens? Yeah, Adam's life has blown up in his face. Maybe if he can figure all of this out, he can focus on his super-secret mission. This heart-racing and heart-rending follow up to Michael Dawn Brooks’ debut novel, Misty Fairchild and the Heart of Alignment, continues the journey for our beloved band of teens as they figure out life, the universe, and everything with wit and humor, and a few tears. In Adam Rowan and the Heart of the Mountain, readers continue on a thrilling urban fantasy adventure ride, filled with sci-fi and contemporary fantasy elements and a touch of paranormal romance that fans of Supernatural and Vampire Diaries will love. Follow Adam and the gang as they fight against nefarious forces trying to subjugate the earth and control humanity's destiny! If you enjoyed books such as Anne Bishop's The Others or Kate Griffin's The Midnight Mayor, you'll love The Heart of the Wayshower Saga. Content Warning: Adam Rowan and the Heart of the Mountain is recommended for readers age 15+ due to language, adult situations, moments of peril, traumatic death, and non-graphic depictions of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and sexual assault. Praise for Misty Fairchild and the Heart of Alignment, book one of the Heart of the Wayshower Saga: ★★★★★ "I was hooked within the first few pages. Couldn't put it down. Characters are relatable with lots of wit. The writer has extensive knowledge of Ancient wisdom school teachings. From Law of Attraction to Law of One. Highly recommend. Can't wait for her next book!" --Good Reads Review ★★★★★ "...An adventurous read for anyone looking for a Stranger Things type vibe." --Amazon Review ★★★★★ "Misty Fairchild is a fun read, and like butter, just melts in your mind. Sparkling wit and nuggets of cultural references light the way on a delightful romp through a dark underworld peopled by young heroes and nefarious characters. Courage and love tempered with a dollop of sarcasm show the way. Action packed mysticism at its finest!" --Amazon Review ★★★★★ A breath of fresh air! “This book is pure gold! It had me laughing, crying, swooning and shaking in my boots the entire way through. Michael Dawn Brooks is a master at sucking you into her story. I literally binged it in three days (Mother of three, ya know, I don't have much time to read). I adored the homage to pop culture that all ages will pick up on. The storyline of light and dark, the potential of human consciousness and conjuring magick from within is one of the best I've ever read. If you like the Stranger Things vibe, you'll love this book.” –Amazon Review

Book The Chubby Vegetarian

Download or read book The Chubby Vegetarian written by Justin Fox Burks and published by Susan Schadt Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not about replicating meat; it's about moving vegetables from side dish to the center of the plate. Most of all, it's about making delicious food that just happens to be vegetarian.After our focus on Southern vegetarian favorites in our first cookbook, now we've branched out to highlight hearty and satisfying vegetarian dishes inspired by cuisines from all over the world in The Chubby Vegetarian. In the space of a few years, we lost a combined one hundred pounds by focusing our diet on vegetables, grains, and fruit--with the occasional over-the-top-dinner (and usually a dessert, too!). We worked more variety into our diets and loved the results, and we want to share our favorite go-to recipes with you. Come along with us as we show you step-by-step how to make creative vegetarian dishes that everyone can enjoy!

Book Maintenance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rob Benvie
  • Publisher : Coach House Books
  • Release : 2012-05-15
  • ISBN : 1770562958
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Maintenance written by Rob Benvie and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great novel that captures the loneliness and absurdity of the 1990s suburban experience. Dense and imaginative writing that often borders on the uncomfortable, but the edge of your seat is the best place to be."—Joel Plaskett It is the summer of 1999, and the Sweltham family is leading an ordinary suburban existence. Former childhood volleyball champ Parker crisscrosses the continent as a sales rep for DynaFlex Sporting Goods, while his wife, Trixie, serves as the managing editor of Record of Truth, an unsuccessful journal for genocide studies. Their son Owen has just returned from juvenile prison to the vast horrors of high school. Heath, Parker's brother, has vowed to cut down on the weed and fried chicken for a regimen of self-improvement, obeying his AbDestroyer routine and crafting a screenplay that will dismantle the universe. All appears normal. Yet in the summer's swelter, as Y2K anxiety grows, grim truths are revealed. Trixie is rocked by the discovery of an undiagnosable cerebral defect, rendering her toils at the journal trivial. Cataloging crunches and ignoring his Gulf War vet ex-girlfriend, Heath fights to reconcile confusions of the past with hopes for a meaningful future. Owen's religious fixations feed his Robitussin binges and fantasies of self-destruction. And while peddling his wares at the annual Empowerment Expo, Parker forges an uneasy friendship with Adam, an African political refugee harboring his own violent aspirations. Sprawling yet scalpel-sharp, Maintenance, like some twenty-first-century White Noise, takes the suburbs to a geography you won't quite recognize. Rob Benvie has recorded and performed with the rock bands Thrush Hermit, Camouflage Nights, and The Dears. He is the author of the novel Safety of War.