Download or read book Sex on the Kitchen Table written by Norman C. Ellstrand and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious legumes to horny hot peppers, most of humanity’s calories and other nutrition come from seeds and fruits—the products of sex—or from flowers, the organs that make plant sex possible. Sex has also played an arm’s-length role in delivering plant food to our stomachs, as human handmade evolution (plant breeding, or artificial selection) has turned wild species into domesticated staples. In Sex on the Kitchen Table, Norman C. Ellstrand takes us on a vegetable-laced tour of this entire sexual adventure. Starting with the love apple (otherwise known as the tomato) as a platform for understanding the kaleidoscopic ways that plants can engage in sex, successive chapters explore the sex lives of a range of food crops, including bananas, avocados, and beets, finally ending with genetically engineered squash—a controversial, virus-resistant vegetable created by a process that involves the most ancient form of sex. Peppered throughout are original illustrations and delicious recipes, from sweet and savory tomato pudding to banana puffed pancakes, avocado toast (of course), and both transgenic and non-GMO tacos. An eye-opening medley of serious science, culinary delights, and humor, Sex on the Kitchen Table offers new insight into fornicating flowers, salacious squash, and what we owe to them. So as we sit down to dine and ready for that first bite, let us say a special grace for our vegetal vittles: let’s thank sex for getting them to our kitchen table.

Download or read book Sex on the Kitchen Table written by Norman C. Ellstrand and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious legumes to horny hot peppers, most of humanity’s calories and other nutrition come from seeds and fruits—the products of sex—or from flowers, the organs that make plant sex possible. Sex has also played an arm’s-length role in delivering plant food to our stomachs, as human handmade evolution (plant breeding, or artificial selection) has turned wild species into domesticated staples. In Sex on the Kitchen Table, Norman C. Ellstrand takes us on a vegetable-laced tour of this entire sexual adventure. Starting with the love apple (otherwise known as the tomato) as a platform for understanding the kaleidoscopic ways that plants can engage in sex, successive chapters explore the sex lives of a range of food crops, including bananas, avocados, and beets, finally ending with genetically engineered squash—a controversial, virus-resistant vegetable created by a process that involves the most ancient form of sex. Peppered throughout are original illustrations and delicious recipes, from sweet and savory tomato pudding to banana puffed pancakes, avocado toast (of course), and both transgenic and non-GMO tacos. An eye-opening medley of serious science, culinary delights, and humor, Sex on the Kitchen Table offers new insight into fornicating flowers, salacious squash, and what we owe to them. So as we sit down to dine and ready for that first bite, let us say a special grace for our vegetal vittles: let’s thank sex for getting them to our kitchen table.

Download or read book These Beautiful Bones An Everyday Theology of the Body written by Emily Stimpson and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was Blessed John Paul II’s greatest gift to the Church: The theology of the body. A window into who we are, the theology of the body is a theology for the rooms where we make love. But it’s also a theology for the rooms where we work, where we eat, where we laugh, and where we pray. These Beautiful Bones takes you on a walk through those rooms. With both humor and practical wisdom, it sheds light on what the theology of the body has to say about life beyond the bedroom, about the everyday moments of life, helping you discover how to let grace enter into those moments and make of them something extraordinary.

Download or read book Kitchen Table Therapy written by Lauren Gerber and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitchen Table Therapy is written by Dr. Lauren Gerber, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, best known across the United States for her therapeutic work with children, adolescents, and their families. Kitchen Table Therapy helps parents facilitate positive relationships, better communication, and overall growth and development in their own homes. In a digital age with computers, game systems and smartphones taking society by storm, this unique Psychologist's guide, Kitchen Table Therapy, helps parents to lead their own family in designing and attaining goals just like those which may have been addressed in a therapist's office. With Dr. Gerber's guidance, parents lead their family in fun-filled activities that require only simple ingredients: a family, a kitchen table, and your time and support. These ingredients are the "meat and potatoes" of this heart-warming family bonding book. Kitchen Table Therapy is illustrated by the famous humorous illustrator, Norm Bendell. Norm Bendell is famous for his work with the American Girl best selling series. Kitchen Table Therapy is a must read and will be a valuable component of your family library.

Download or read book Love on the Kitchen Table written by Aleisha Coote and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each day we are bombarded with mixed messages and beliefs about what it means to be in a relationship. We encounter shocking statistics on divorce rates and examples on where it all goes wrong. Yet where is the focus on success? What if your relationship could be saved or enhanced based on your understanding of some simple yet powerful insights to human behaviour? Challenging the trends of society, Love on the Kitchen Table flips common relationship complaints on their heads. With a focus on success, it details one couples search to discovering the intentional efforts that make love workand better than ever. Through her creative approach, author and human behaviour coach Aleisha Coote uses the setting of the kitchen table as a powerful metaphor to illustrate key themes to creating, embracing, and nurturing a connection that lasts. Within, she explains the ten essential needs that must be met in order to keep love alive, how to know what your lovers really thinking, and the secret to why women test their men. Filled with helpful information and practical strategies, this guide seeks to open your eyes to a new way of thinkingand therefore new results.

Download or read book Reality Boy written by A.S. King and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fearless portrayal of a boy on the edge, highly acclaimed Printz Honor author A.S. King explores the desperate reality of a former child "star" struggling to break free of his anger. Gerald Faust started feeling angry even before his mother invited a reality TV crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he's still haunted by his rage-filled youth--which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle--and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school. No one cares that Gerald has tried to learn to control himself; they're all just waiting for him to snap. And he's starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that...until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.

Download or read book Kitchen Table Lingo written by The English Project and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an afterword by David Crystal and contributions from Philip Pullman, Jilly Cooper, Jeremy Vine and Meera Syal, all life is here. Become part of the Kitchen Table Lingo community and write your words in now! 'Seen the bloke with the bedooftey bum?' 'More testiculating on Newsnight......' Does it sometimes seem like your family speaks its own language? Families up and down the UK have their own special vocabularies. Discover tinsellitis sufferers in Tunbridge Wells, elephant users in Edinburgh and chobblers in Cardiff. Whether it's a slip of the tongue that becomes a permanent part of the family vernacular or a word invented when all others fail, Kitchen Table Lingo is part of what makes our language so rich and creative. This collection of hundreds of words from English speakers around the world - complete with space and an invitation to add your own - is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of the spoken word and the people who take pleasure in it. After all, what other language has fifty-seven words for the TV remote control?

Download or read book Sorry Please Thank You written by Charles Yu and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of stories featuring a retail employee who is confronted by a zombie, a computer warrior who leads his fighter band across a virtual landscape, and a company that outsources grief.

Download or read book Sex on the Table written by Juerg Federer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets Revealed: The best date night recipes from New York's iconic underground aphrodisiac dining society Sex on the Table.From 2012 to 2017, SEX ON THE TABLE was the hot ticket in New York City. The secret underground aphrodisiac dining society sold out 500 consecutive events in Manhattans' Hell's Kitchen district. The wait list to get a seat at Sex on the Table ranged anywhere from six weeks to six months. In this magazine, we solve the riddle, and we uncover the 60 best date night recipes from Sex on the Table, mixed and matched to 20 seductive menus that were served on 51st Street. We unveil 40+ unseen flavor profiles to try at home and we reveal the dirty little secrets of a chef's trade, that Sex on the Table founder J "ChefFed" Federer shared with his guests, along with his badass cheat-sheet to cook the perfect steak at home. And we expose the remarkable experiences more than 10'000 indulging New Yorkers shared with Sex on the Table founder J "ChefFed" Federer.«Watching ChefFed slice an Onion is kind of erotic the same way watching an NBA player score a two-pointer.»~ Cosmopolitan«The coolest thing to Do in New York City.» ~ Time Out New York«ChefFed is America's leading aphrodisiac Chef.» ~ E!News

Download or read book My Kitchen Wars written by Betty Fussell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fierce and funny memoir of kitchen and bedroom from James Beard Award winner Betty Fussell A survivor of the domestic revolutions that turned American television sets from Leave It to Beaver to The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Julia Child’s The French Chef, food historian and journalist Betty Fussell has spotlighted the changes in American culture through food over the last half century in nearly a dozen books. In this witty and candid autobiographical mock epic, Fussell survives a motherless household during the Great Depression, gets married to the well-known writer and war historian Paul Fussell after World War II, goes through a divorce, and finally escapes to New York City in her mid-fifties, batterie de cuisine intact. My Kitchen Wars is a revelation of the author’s lifelong love affair with food—cooking it, eating it, and sharing it—no matter where or with whom she finds herself. From Princeton to Heidelberg and from London to Provence, Fussell ladles out food, sex, and travel with her wooden spoon, welcoming all who come to the table.

Download or read book You Don t Know Everything Jilly P Scholastic Gold written by Alex Gino and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Gino, the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Melissa, is back with another sensitive tale based on increasingly relevant social justice issues. Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins. A big fantasy reader, Jilly makes a connection online with another fantasy fan, Derek, who is a Deaf, Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for help with Emma but doesn't always know the best way or time to ask for it. As she and Derek meet in person, have some really fun conversations, and become friends, Jilly makes some mistakes . . . but comes to understand that it's up to her, not Derek to figure out how to do better next time--especially when she wants to be there for Derek the most. Within a world where kids like Derek and Emma aren't assured the same freedom or safety as kids like Jilly, Jilly is starting to learn all the things she doesn't know--and by doing that, she's also working to discover how to support her family and her friends. With You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!, award-winning author Alex Gino uses their trademark humor, heart, and humanity to show readers how being open to difference can make you a better person, and how being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways.

Download or read book My Father s Daughter written by Gwyneth Paltrow and published by Grand Central Life & Style. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Academy-Award winning actress and avid foodie shares a sumptuous collection of recipes and gorgeous photographs celebrating the joy of preparing food for loved ones, a passion she learned from her beloved father. As an actress, author, trendsetter, creator of goop.com, and host of the popular PBS series, Spain: On the Road Again, Gwyneth Paltrow is an icon of style and good taste around the world. As a young girl eating and cooking with her father, Bruce Paltrow, she developed a passion for food that has shaped how she lives today and strengthened her belief that time with family is a priority. Now in My Father's Daughter, Paltrow shares her favorite family recipes along with personal stories of growing up with her father, Bruce Paltrow. She discusses how he has influenced her in the food she loves, how she involves her kids in cooking, and how she balances healthy food with homemade treats. And, for the first time, Paltrow offers a glimpse into her life as daughter, mother and wife, sharing her thoughts on the importance of family and togetherness. Complete with 150 delicious ideas for breakfast, sandwiches and burgers, soups, salads, main dishes, sides, and desserts, this beautifully illustrated book includes full-color photos throughout, many featuring Paltrow at home with her family and friends. My Father's Daughter is a luscious collection that will inspire readers to cook great food with the people who mean the most to them.

Download or read book By the Rivers of Babylon written by Nelson DeMille and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind. Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.

Download or read book Boy Swallows Universe written by Trent Dalton and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, winner of a record four Australian Book Industry Awards in 2019, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award, and winner of the 2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards Brisbane, 1985: A lost father, a mute brother, a junkie mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli Bell's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to be a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way - not the least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But now Eli's life is going to get a whole lot more serious: he's about to meet the father he doesn't remember, break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day to rescue his mum, come face to face with the criminals who tore his world apart, and fall in love with the girl of his dreams. A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year. Awards: 2019 ABIA Book of the Year Award, Winner 2019 Indie Book Award, Winner 2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner 2019 People's Choice Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner MUD Literary Prize 2019, Winner 2019 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Winner 2019 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Winner 2019 ABIA Audiobook of the Year, Winner 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Longlisted 2019 Colin Roderick Award, shortlist Reviews: 'Boy Swallows Universe is a wonderful surprise: sharp as a drawer full of knives in terms of subject matter; unrepentantly joyous in its child's-eye view of the world; the best literary debut in a month of Sundays.' The Australian 'Boy Swallows Universe hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with heartbreak.' Washington Post 'This thrilling novel' New York Times Book Review 'Marvelously plot-rich ... filled with beautifully lyric prose ...At one point Eli wonders if he is good. The answer is "yes," every bit as good as this exceptional novel.' Booklist 'Dalton's splashy, stellar debut makes the typical coming-of-age novel look bland by comparison ... This is an outstanding debut.' Publisher's Weekly (starred review) 'Extraordinary and beautiful storytelling' Guardian

Download or read book The Unqualified Hostess written by Whoopi Goldberg and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary actor and comedian shows how to set a great table, shares ideas for unforgettable celebrations, and says, "It's about fun, not perfection!" In her own words... "It's Whoopi here and I've written this book that, frankly, is the last book anyone would expect. You would never think of me as someone with the courage to say, 'You have everything you need to be fantastic in your own house, apartment, or trailer to set a great table.' Let's face it, you look at a lot of books on Entertaining and think 'I could never do this in my house, I don't have this stuff and it's not going to look like what I'm seeing.' That's not what's going to happen here! I want to show you there is great heart in setting the table. For two or four or the kids or Halloween or tea just for you. For dinners with friends or the holidays. I'm going to tell you stories about what I do when people come over and give you ideas about what you're seeing because Honey, everything in this book is what you can do in your house. You got a bodega or a 7-Eleven near you? They sell flowers. Take those bad boys and put them on your table. You got some crazy old plate from your grandmother (or a fancy silver one)? You got little kids' toys that have been annoying you forever, put them on the table too. Who's going to tell you it's wrong? Not me! I'm going to tell you it's right and I'm going to take you on a journey. And don't forget the bathroom; decorate it too, people are going to see it. It's all at your house. Come with me. I'll show you! P.S. I know the glass on the cover is broken. Accidents happen!"

Download or read book Sex on the Table written by J. Federer and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets Revealed: The best date night recipes from New York's iconic underground aphrodisiac dining society Sex on the Table. 60 Date Night Recipes 20 Seductive Menus 40 Unseen Flavor Profiles Dirty little secrets of a chef's trade Cheatsheet to cook the perfect steak 20+ Full Page color images «ChefFed is America's Leading Aphrodisiac Chef» - E!News «The Coolest Thing To Do In New York City!» - Time Out New York «Watching ChefFed Slice An Onion Is Kind Of Erotic The Same Way As Watching An NBA Player Score A Two-Pointer.» - Cosmopolitan From 2012 to 2017, SEX ON THE TABLE was the hot ticket in New York City. The secret underground aphrodisiac dining society sold out 500 consecutive events in Manhattans' Hell's Kitchen district. The waitlist to get a seat at Sex on the Table ranged anywhere from six weeks to six months. In this magazine, we solve the riddle, and we uncover the 60 best date night recipes from Sex on the Table, mixed and matched to 20 seductive menus served on 51st Street. We unveil 40+ unseen flavor profiles to try at home, and we reveal the dirty little secrets of a chef's trade that Sex on the Table founder J "ChefFed" Federer shared with his guests, along with his badass cheatsheet to cook the perfect steak at home. And we expose the remarkable experiences more than 10'000 indulging New Yorkers shared with Sex on the Table founder J "ChefFed" Federer.

Download or read book The Mummy at the Dining Room Table written by Jeffrey A. Kottler and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wife pretends to hang herself in the basement so she can time how long it will be before her husband comes to rescue her. . . .a woman whose dead aunt was made into a mummy so the family could better grieve her passing and on occasion dine with her at family gatherings . . . a man wants his nose cut off to escape an annoying smell that haunts him . . . a teenage boy would only come to therapy if he could bring his pet snake These and other fascinating and revealing stories are told by some of the most famous therapists in the world. Collected in this extraordinary book, well known practitioners recount the most memorable case histories of their illustrious careers. Engaging and surprising stories of human behavior are dramatically and often humorously portrayed. Each chapter gives a behind-the-scenes look at how therapists work with clients whose problems and behaviors aren't found in standard psychology textbooks. The book also shows how these eminent therapists often cure these apparently intractable problems and learn something about themselves in the process.