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Book Hot Dogs and Funerals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Willie Church
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-08-02
  • ISBN : 9781638749301
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Hot Dogs and Funerals written by Willie Church and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hotdogs and funerals-right down the street from the funeral home sits a local ice-cream shop that also serves hamburgers, fries, and other artery clogging prizes the entire family can enjoy. However, nothing tasted as good as the footlong hotdog with sauce or as, us, locals would mispronounce, "a footer with sauce." Mm-hm, boy, howdy, are they good! When I would come home on leave from the air force, the first place I wanted to visit was that little ice-cream shop to order "a footer with sauce" or, in my younger days, "two footers with sauce." Again, I'm hard to kidnap. Don't judge. Well, wouldn't you know it, one evening when my sister and I were still young, Igene and Irene returned from the funeral home with two footers with sauce. Both footers were laid out in a cardboard box...much like the people in the funeral home now that I think about. In the box, each footer was placed inside the paper sleeve with the ice-cream store's name on it. Due to the ride home, the footers were a little cold, and some of the sauce were stuck to the paper sleeve as well as some of the bun. No matter the condition, my sister and I held our footers proudly as if we were going to raise them like flags before a defeated enemy after a long hard-fought battle with starvation. No doubt this is what the marines felt like raising the American flag after the Battle of Iwo Jima. Bombs burst in the air of our minds as we relished (no pun intended) in our wiener victory!

Book Hot Dogs and Funerals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Willie Church
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2021-11-10
  • ISBN : 1638749310
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book Hot Dogs and Funerals written by Willie Church and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hotdogs and funerals—right down the street from the funeral home sits a local ice-cream shop that also serves hamburgers, fries, and other artery clogging prizes the entire family can enjoy. However, nothing tasted as good as the footlong hotdog with sauce or as, us, locals would mispronounce, “a footer with sauce.” Mm-hm, boy, howdy, are they good! When I would come home on leave from the air force, the first place I wanted to visit was that little ice-cream shop to order “a footer with sauce” or, in my younger days, “two footers with sauce.” Again, I’m hard to kidnap. Don’t judge. Well, wouldn’t you know it, one evening when my sister and I were still young, Igene and Irene returned from the funeral home with two footers with sauce. Both footers were laid out in a cardboard box...much like the people in the funeral home now that I think about. In the box, each footer was placed inside the paper sleeve with the ice-cream store’s name on it. Due to the ride home, the footers were a little cold, and some of the sauce were stuck to the paper sleeve as well as some of the bun. No matter the condition, my sister and I held our footers proudly as if we were going to raise them like flags before a defeated enemy after a long hard-fought battle with starvation. No doubt this is what the marines felt like raising the American flag after the Battle of Iwo Jima. Bombs burst in the air of our minds as we relished (no pun intended) in our wiener victory!

Book What a Way to Go

Download or read book What a Way to Go written by Adele Brown and published by . This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A&E Biography meets Tales from the Crypt in this fun but respectful survey of the amazing lives and astonishing funerals of two dozen twentieth-century icons from politics, art, and pop culture. In more than 50 rare photographs and thoroughly researched profiles, What a Way to Go showcases all the colorful details of each subject's death, funeral service, and burial. From Muppet creator Jim Henson's upbeat service, attended by Big Bird, to Babe Ruth lying in state at Yankee Stadium as vendors sold hot dogs to waiting mourners--it's all here, the moving and the macabre. JFK, Notorious B.I.G., Elvis Presley, Chairman Mao, Eva Peron, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and many more find fitting tribute in this compulsively readable, visually lavish, richly entertaining celebration of our enduring fascination with the famous and the strange pageantry of their demise.

Book Raw Dog

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jamie Loftus
  • Publisher : Forge Books
  • Release : 2023-05-23
  • ISBN : 1250847753
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Raw Dog written by Jamie Loftus and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Featured in: NPR Weekend Edition • Bon Appétit • Oprah Daily • Glamour • NY Mag • Splendid Table • The Wall Street Journal • Eater • Betches • USA Today • Boston Globe • Eater • Slate • The Next Big Idea Club • Buzzfeed and more “Wise and funny” —ANDY RICHTER • “Revealing, funny, sad, horny, and insatiably curious” —SARAH MARSHALL • “A wild ride” —ROBERT EVANS • “Deeply incisive and hilariously honest” —JACK O’BRIEN • “Gonzo yet vulnerable” —GABE DUNN • “Hot dog Moby-Dick” —BRANSON REESE • “One of the freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade.” —LINDSAY ELLIS Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They’re high culture, they’re low culture, they’re sports food, they’re kids' food, they’re hangover food, and they’re deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you can’t avoid the great American hot dog. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelog documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as they’re served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass-shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. It’s a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper, but not the interest. So grab a dog, lay out your picnic blanket, and dig into the delicious and inevitable product of centuries of violence, poverty, and ambition, now rolling around at your local 7-Eleven. The hardcover edition of Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs includes gorgeous endpapers, an illustrated case, as well as illustrations by the author throughout. "Raw Dog will leave you nourished." —BuzzFeed "You will certainly never read a funnier book about taking a hot dog-themed road trip across America." —Glamour At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Hot Diggity Dog

Download or read book Hot Diggity Dog written by Adrienne Sylver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we are what we eat, Americans are hot dogs. We ate them on the way to the moon and served them to the king of England. We name a Hot Dog Eating Champ! Garnished with hilarious illustrations and amazing "foodie" facts, this kid-friendly, globe-spanning history of our favorite fast-food meal offers unique insight into America's multicultural heritage. From a hobo's franks-and-beans to astronaut food, there's more to the wiener--and what's for dinner--than you think.

Book Our Best Bites

Download or read book Our Best Bites written by Sara Smith Wells and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes plastic insert with equivalent measurements and metric conversions.

Book Life and Other Complications

Download or read book Life and Other Complications written by Heather Mullaly and published by Favored Oak Press. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mullaly executes the work with finesse, effectively balancing a believable young cast with high, real-world stakes . . .engrossing.”- Kirkus Reviews Seventeen-year-old Aly Bennett has been in love with her friend Luke for years. She hasn't told him how she feels for two reasons. 1) She's the girl with HIV. 2) She lied about how she got it. Aly never meant to lie. The words just slipped out on her first day of a support group for kids living with life-threatening conditions. It was the day she met Luke and Caroline, who would become her best friends and the closest thing she has to a family. After so many years, Aly doesn’t know how to tell her friends the truth. So she paints and she runs and she tries not to think about the future she can’t have. But when a Boston prosecutor asks Aly to testify in a trial—and her relationship with Luke intensifies—things become complicated. If she testifies, Luke and Caroline will learn the truth—that Aly has been lying to them for most of a decade. If she doesn’t, a monster could go free, again.

Book Confessions of a Funeral Director

Download or read book Confessions of a Funeral Director written by Caleb Wilde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying

Book The Hot Dogs Gone Wild Cookbook

Download or read book The Hot Dogs Gone Wild Cookbook written by Dana Matthew Saide and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot dogs, what can you say about them? Everybody loves them. They are either a quick snack or you can eat a few as a meal. A hot dog can even invoke good memories. Whether you think back to a family BBQ, grilling hot dogs on a snowy day after shoveling or getting a hot dog in NYC from a street vendor. Hot dogs can always bring a smile to your face. Here are a few hot dog recipes I recommend.

Book Confessions of an L A  Funeral Director

Download or read book Confessions of an L A Funeral Director written by Denny Dormody and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its rainy. The oncoming headlights are blinding me. I have to stay awake. Its 2:00 A.M. and less than two feet behind me is the body of a woman scheduled for burial in about six hours... A 24 year-old Hispanic male has taken a bullet to the head. A drug deal gone bad. The Mortician in charge has done a remarkable job hiding the head wound. The wound is invisible... This was no White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. No Beverly Hills. No Beverly Thrills. It was a step above a flop house and maybe only a half-step... Every day in the City of Angels and Actors, hundreds of people are buried. These are their stories... L.A. Funeral Director and comedy writer Denny Dormody, a working actor and an active member of the Screen Actors Guild, moonlights to pay the rent... "Denny Dormody, I hope you become a better writer." -- Kirk Douglas "Good to meet you. Good luck and good writing..." -- Michael Connelly, Author, The Black Box Comedy scribes Denny Dormody & Michael Conley have inked with Loeb & Loeb for Literary representation -- The Hollywood Reporter

Book Mike Royko  The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984 1997

Download or read book Mike Royko The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984 1997 written by Mike Royko and published by Agate Digital. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 3259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984–1997 is an expansive new volume of the longtime Chicago news legend’s work. Encompassing thousands of his columns, all of which originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, this is the first collection of Royko work to solely cover his time at the Tribune. Covering politics, culture, sports, and more, Royko brings his trademark sarcasm and cantankerous wit to a complete compendium of his last 14 years as a newspaper man. Organized chronologically, these columns display Royko's talent for crafting fictional conversations that reveal the truth of the small-minded in our society. From cagey political points to hysterical take-downs of "meatball" sports fans, Royko's writing was beloved and anticipated anxiously by his fans. In plain language, he "tells it like it is" on subjects relevant to modern society. In addition to his columns, the book features Royko's obituary and articles written about him after his death, telling the tale of his life and success. This ultimate collection is a must-read for Royko fans, longtime Chicago Tribune readers, and Chicagoans who love the city's rich history of dedicated and insightful journalism.

Book Funeral Festivals in America

Download or read book Funeral Festivals in America written by Jacqueline S. Thursby and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how technical and extraordinarily creative human funerary practices would become in the ensuing decades. In Funeral Festivals in America, author Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals have evolved into affairs that help the living with the healing process. Thursby suggests that there is irony in the festivities surrounding death. The typical American response to death often develops into a celebration that reestablishes links or strengthens ties between family members and friends. The increasingly important funerary banquet, for example, honors an often well-lived life in order to help survivors accept the change that death brings and to provide healing fellowship. At such celebrations and other forms of the traditional wake, participants often use humor to add another dimension to expressing both the personality of the deceased and their ties to a particular ethnic heritage. In her research and interviews, Thursby discovered the paramount importance of food as part of the funeral ritual. During times of loss, individuals want to be consoled, and this is often accomplished through the preparation and consumption of nourishing, comforting foods. In the Intermountain West, Funeral Potatoes, a potato-cheese casserole, has become an expectation at funeral meals; Muslim families often bring honey flavored fruits and vegetables to the funeral table for their consoling familiarity; and many Mexican Americans continue the tradition of tamale making as a way to bring people together to talk, to share memories, and to simply enjoy being together. Funeral Festivals in America examines rituals for loved ones separated by death, frivolities surrounding death, funeral foods and feasts, post-funeral rites, and personalized memorials and grave markers. Thursby concludes that though Americans come from many different cultural traditions, they deal with death in a largely similar approach. They emphasize unity and embrace rites that soothe the distress of death as a way to heal and move forward.

Book L   L Love   Liberation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Doris Woodard Wallace
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2010-03
  • ISBN : 1438986637
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book L L Love Liberation written by Doris Woodard Wallace and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid finds herself at Conrad's mercy when she returns to the ranch alone. David decides to stay away from her as long as she's married. While Ingrid sacrifices her happiness for the sake of revenge, Conrad seems to be winning on all fronts. Ingrid's friend and attorney, Frank Irwin, plans his own brand of revenge to grind both their axes. Strange things begin to happen in Ingrid's writing career and she blames David. When he suddenly reappears he makes a shocking confession concerning his true identity, but holds back from telling her his most intimate secrets for fear of losing her. Conrad's greed blooms in yet another way that drives David to the edge. He uses his daughter, Karen, as an excuse to push his way deeper into Ingrid's life, filling David's mind with misconceptions concerning Ingrid's feeling for Conrad, and he returns to New York for a cooling off period. Van Newton intercedes in an attempt to solve the problem between his son and Ingrid, realizing that they are deeply in love and are holding back from admitting it because of outside interference. Suspicions and jealousy becomes an ever present demon in their lives as they battle deceit and lies. Ina does not approve of David's relationship with Ingrid and puts them asunder on their wedding night. Ingrid persuades David to confess the ugly thing between him and his mother. Little did she realize all the horrors the woman was capable of committing and the pain and grief they would suffer. David is forced to tell Ingrid his darkest secret, giving her grounds for divorce.

Book The Hot Dogs Gone Wild CookbookVolume 2

Download or read book The Hot Dogs Gone Wild CookbookVolume 2 written by Dana Saide and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who wants more hot dogs? A hot dog can even invoke good memories. Whether you think back to a family BBQ, grilling hot dogs on a snowy day after shoveling, or getting a hot dog in NYC from a street vendor. Hot dogs can always bring a smile to your face. Here are a few more hot dog recipes I recommend.

Book Heat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Frerker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780974008004
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Heat written by Jack Frerker and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the small fictional town of Algoma, Illinois, summer's usually plodding pace overlays the heat and complexities of the human heart. What slowly emerges is a series of inextricably connected secrets that occupies the curiosity and attention of the town's pastor. A drama of death and redemption play out with legal implications and pastoral solutions."--Publisher description

Book Man Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adrienne Giordano
  • Publisher : ALG Publishing
  • Release : 2020-12-22
  • ISBN : 194250456X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Man Law written by Adrienne Giordano and published by ALG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security consultant Vic Andrews fears nothing. Except emotional entanglements. He lives on the edge and by his own rules. Never mess with your best friend’s sister, for one. Especially when that sister is sweet and sexy goddess Gina Delgado. Vic is strictly a “no strings attached” kind of guy, and a young widow with three kids is guaranteed to tie his heart in all sorts of knots. Too bad other parts of his anatomy aren’t as easily deterred. Gina is no stranger to men like Vic. Men in love with their dangerous professions. Her firefighter husband may have been a hero, but his bravery is little comfort to Gina now. She refuses to face that kind of loss ever again. Still, a girl has needs. And Vic, with his military-hardened body and tender touch, is just the thing she needs to fulfill them. As long as they can keep things casual. But getting involved with Vic puts Gina at the risk of more than heartbreak. When Vic becomes the target of a terrorist seeking revenge, no one around him is safe. With Gina and her family in a madman’s sights, Vic will break all the rules to keep her close…and keep them all alive.

Book The Raid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lee Lynch
  • Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
  • Release : 2012-10-01
  • ISBN : 1602828040
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book The Raid written by Lee Lynch and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Stonewall, having a drink with friends or your girl could mean jail. In 1961, The Old Town Tavern is more than just a gay bar. ItÕs a home to strangers who have become family. Murph, the dapper unschooled storyteller. Rockie Solomon, the gentle, generous observer. Lisa Jelane, in all her lonely dignity. Gorgeous Paul, so fragile, and his twin (straight?) sister Cissy. Deej, the angry innocent. Norman, plump and queenly lover of a college professor whoÕs happiest in schoolmarm drag. Harry Van Epps, police officer, and old Dr. Everett, ÒfamilyÓ physician. They drink, they dance, they fall in lust and in love. They donÕt even know who the enemy is, only that it is powerful enough to order the all-too-willing vice squad to destroy the bar and their lives. Would these women and men still have family, a job, a place to live afterÉThe Raid? This was how it was done then, this was the gay life, and this is the resilient gay will.