Author: Lora Lee Ecobelli Publisher: ISBN: 9780983389798 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 108
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A collection of recipes, memories, and stories inspired by the authors' grandmother, Laurina Ecobelli, whose family operated Ecobelli's Tam O'Shanter Inn on Route 50 in Ballston Spa for more than 40 successful years.
Author: Addie L. Chavis Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465393641 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 64
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This story is about LAURINA (a young girl) wondering what was the other half of her family heritage/genealogy). Where did her ideas and thoughts come from. Her inner self kept saying she was much more. At the age of 7, she grew up with a mother, stepfather and siblings of her mother and stepfather. She always felt like an outsider in the family she lived with. She was pretty much treated like a second class member of the family. She knew in her inner self she was capable of much more and felt that her other side came from a great family. Laurina was the oldest in the family and got stuck with baby sitting and cleaning. As she grew older, her inner sense knew there was more to her life and self worth.
Author: Laurie Colwin Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497673801 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 171
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A delectable mix of essays and recipes from the critically acclaimed writer: “As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking” (The New York Times Book Review). In this delightful celebration of food, family, and friends, one of America’s most cherished kitchen companions shares her lifelong passion for cooking and entertaining. Interweaving essential tips and recipes with hilarious stories of meals both delectable and disastrous, Home Cooking is a masterwork of culinary memoir and an inspiration to novice cooks, expert chefs, and food lovers everywhere. From veal scallops sautéed on a hot plate in her studio apartment to home-baked bread that is both easy and delicious, Colwin imparts her hard-earned secrets with wit, empathy, and charm. She advocates for simple dishes made from fresh, organic ingredients, and counsels that even in the worst-case scenario, there is always an elegant solution: dining out. Highly personal and refreshingly down-to-earth, Laurie Colwin’s irresistible ode to domestic pleasures is a must-have for anyone who has ever savored the memory of a mouthwatering meal. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Laurie Colwin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Author: Minerva Wyche Blackwell Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477147047 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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BEHIND THE KITCHEN DOOR....A Shotgun Wedding, begins in the rural countryside of North Carolina and takes the reader on an adventure and experiences to some of the most exciting cities that one only hears about. From the big, historical city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with all its rich history of America, to the tall skyscrapers and exciting nightlife of Manhattan in New York City, to the sprawling city of Los Angeles, California and to Europe and the romantic, "La Ville-Lumiere" (The City Of Light), Paris, France and the French Riviera. It is a story of love, romance, racism, miscegenation, betrayals, triumphs and tragedies. It is the story of Alene, a pretty, smart,teenager who has to endure a lot of tragedies in her young life and of her family’s struggle in America’s rural south from the mid 1920’s through the Great Depression in the 1930 ́s, dealing with racial segregation and Jim Crow laws. She has to grow up much too fast due to the passing of her mother, after giving birth to her baby sister. Alene who was thirteen and the oldest of eight children, helped her father to raise her younger siblings until her father remarried. She gets pregnant by her boyfriend Julius at age seventeen and tells her father, who beats her mercilessly. She and Julius are forced to go to court and tell the judge where they had sex. They are made to marry. She leaves Julius because of beatings and abuse and move up north to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On her way up north, she experiences first-hand Jim Crow laws of the south, starting with segregated interstate train cars. Once in Philadelphia she meets four young women and they form a lasting friendship. Alene meets and fall in love with Mitch at a jazz club. She becomes seriously ill with tuberculosis, and her father comes and takes her and her little boy back home. Her doctor admits her to a sanitarium for treatment but later tells her and her family that the disease is much worst than he thought. She dies a few months later of the illness.
Author: Gloria S N Allen Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1491874112 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 383
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Smoke In the Kitchen is about second chances. This book, set in Freetown, Sierra Leone, tells the story about 43 year old Sara Moses who happens to find lifes purpose where she least expects. The challenging situation she faces is not uncommon to Sara. Following the untimely death of her fianc and her unborn daughter, her life becomes empty and meaningless. With much persuasion from her sister, she picks herself up, dusts herself off, and begins a new life. She falls in love and marries Benjamin Moses, a government official. Still plagued by her challenging circumstances including her desire to have children, she starts the process of adopting two children. This doesnt go well due to retaliation from an unknown source. Feeling devastated Sara channels her energy by forming a reforestation society and encourages an entire nation to replant the forest. At the end, Sara provides a second chance to nature as well as to two innocent children.
Author: Laurel Robertson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 400
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All the recipes in this new, lower-priced edition of this classic cookbook have been retained, but the appendix has been dropped and, in its place, a longer introduction will incorporate many of the important features of that section. Illustrations.
Author: Rael Wissdorf Publisher: Trivocum Verlag ISBN: 3961899983 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 119
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Hawks Effect is a Sci Fi story, consisting of four Volumes, which is published as a serialized novel, beginning with the first volume "Emergence" in 10 Episodes. This is Episode 1: Street smart former dancer turned con artist, Laurina Hawks, receives a cryptic message from her sister who is working abroad in America. Turning to her brother Abel for help in decoding the message, they discover that she is in danger. Undaunted, Laurina decides to go to Phoenix Arizona to rescue her. Since travel airfare and lodging are expensive, and her funds are low, she must pull one last con to finance the trip. An accident after the meeting propels her into unfamiliar surroundings where danger lurks at every turn. Each person she meets has their own agenda. Now, someone wants her dead. As her resolve to save her sister is tested again and again, Laurina soon discovers that there are worse things than having Scotland Yard on your tail.
Author: Elias J. Connor Publisher: FINN Books Edition FireFly ISBN: 3754637118 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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Just before Christmas, in Ireland in the late 1980s. Violence, religious terror, hostility and exclusion determine everyday life in a district near Belfast. "Sandy is what keeps me alive," Laurina says to her mother one day. It's the day the eleven-year-old girl begins to struggle against an unimaginably dreary life. At the new school everyone is against Laurina and her sister Sandy because they are not honest Catholics like the other kids say. While the mother tries to get through every day with whatever jobs to feed her children, they are also despised for their apparent poverty. When they are then separated from their mother, their world collapses. Only one classmate is gradually bringing Laurina's trust and hope back - but this boy of all people is hiding a big, serious secret... A social drama set in Ireland in the late 1980s, it tells the story of a girl who would go through hell for her little sister.
Author: Allison Waggoner Publisher: Horizon Publishers ISBN: 9781462116799 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 0
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Drink in and savor your favorite family memories--the ones that start right in your kitchen. Popular TV personality Allison Waggoner brings her family's favorite recipes to your table in this beautiful collection of meals you can make for special occasions or any day. Delight in Blueberry Cream Cheese, Stuffed French Toast, Salted Caramel Hand Pies, Baked Rigatoni with Fennel and Sausage, and Ricotta Stuffed Meatballs. With recipes for brunch, dinner, dessert, and drinks, this cookbook invites you into the kitchen to create your own family memories full of delicious food, fun with friends, and love that lasts a lifetime.
Author: Lora Lee Ecobelli
Author: Addie L. Chavis
Author: Laurie Colwin
Author: Minerva Wyche Blackwell
Author: Gloria S N Allen
Author: Laurel Robertson
Author: Cleora Butler
Author: Rael Wissdorf
Author: Elias J. Connor
Author: Allison Waggoner