![]() ![]() ![]() With her celebrated blend of science, history, expertise, anecdotes, and signature sense of humor, Niki Segnit's More Flavors is a modern classic of food writing, and a brilliantly useful, engaging reference book for every cook's kitchen. More Flavors explores the character and tasting notes of chickpea, fennel, pomegranate, kale, lentil, miso, mustard, rye, pine nut, pistachio, poppy seed, sesame, turmeric, and wild rice-as well as favorites like almond, avocado, garlic, lemon, and parsley from the original-then expertly teaches readers how to pair them with ingredients that complement. (Yotam Ottolenghi) to produce a new treasury of pairings-this time with plant-led ingredients. Now, she again draws from her “phenomenal body of work” ![]() ![]() With her debut cookbook, The Flavor Thesaurus, Niki Segnit taught readers that no matter whether an ingredient is “grassy” like dill, cucumber, or peas, or “floral fruity” like figs, roses, or blueberries, flavors can be created in wildly imaginative ways. The plant-led follow-up to The Flavor Thesaurus, "a rich and witty and erudite collection" ( Epicurious), featuring 99 essential ingredients and hundreds of flavor combinations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Perkins decides that the best way to answer that question is to whistle for him, and that is exactly what he does. On his way back from playing golf, he explores a strip of the beach which was the site of a Templars' preceptory, and he discovers a bronze whistle inscribed with the words 'Quis est iste qui uenit' ('Who is this who is coming?'). Perkins, Professor of Ontography at St James's College, takes a trip to Burnstow and stays at the Globe Inn. 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' is probably the most well known of James' tales the BBC made an adaptation of it, starring John Hurt, in 2010. ![]() ![]() and into a terrifying chase from Sweden back to rural England. Wraxall's interest is aroused by the innkeeper's words, but his overly inquisitive nature leads him into trouble. He gains permission to examine an important collection of documents at Råbäck, a manor house in Vestergothland, which was built in the seventeenth century by Count Magnus De la Gardie, a rather brutal nobleman who, according to a local innkeeper, 'had been on the Black Pilgrimage, and had brought something or someone back with him'. 'Count Magnus' is set in 1863 and tells the story of Mr Wraxall, a man past middle age, of private means, and near being a Fellow of his college at Oxford, who goes on an expedition to Sweden with the intention of writing a guidebook. ![]() ![]() ![]() His 1905 paper explaining the photoelectric effect, the basis of electronics, earned him the Nobel Prize in 1921. At a symposium, he advised: " In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must h In 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. He chaired the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, which organized to alert the public to the dangers of atomic warfare. Einstein, a pacifist during World War I, stayed a firm proponent of social justice and responsibility. After the rise of the Nazi party, Einstein made Princeton his permanent home, becoming a U.S. ![]() His first paper on Special Relativity Theory, also published in 1905, changed the world. In 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. ![]() ![]() In her book Wild Things, Wild Places, which came out today, Alexander uses her journeys over the years to highlight 23 endangered ecosystems. ![]() But each adventure was more than just a stamp in her passport or a tick on her life list they were studies on how humans are hurting nature-and how we're trying to make amends. “I’ve always been a nature girl,” Jane Alexander says.Īdd it to a long list of pursuits and interests for the award-winning screen and stage actress, globetrotter, Audubon board member, conservationist, and now, author. Over the past three decades, Alexander’s love of nature has taken her to some far-off lands, from the sprawling Pantanal wetlands to the towering Himalayas and the volcanoes of Halakeal. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read books, scour YouTube, find websites. I interview people who’ve lived in the cities so I get a local perspective. ![]() For example, the New York Public Library is a setting for City Spies 5 and I was able to get a behind the scenes tour to look around the stacks and see things like the automated system that moves books around. If I know that I’m going to include a specific building or landmark, I try to arrange a special tour. ![]() When possible, I travel to them and explore. From a geography standpoint, I try to find out as much as I can about a destination, including the off the wall elements. What kind of research do you do for each book? Have you been to any of the cities before? Interview with James Ponti The City Spies series takes place all around the world. I devoured the first three books last year and I am so excited to celebrate the release of the fourth installment this week with an interview with author James Ponti. The City Spies series is so much fun and full of adventure and found family! It’s a great middle grade series, perfect for fans of Ally Carter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 9780465049660 Number of pages: 560 Weight: 562 g Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 38 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Bloomberg View Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2014 Daily Beast Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 ![]() Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. ![]() ![]() ![]() Funny on film, less effective on the page. It’s corrupted here by dialogue, with Hawley talking to his groceries as if they were people. ![]() It reads as if Steinbeck conceived the film before he made it into the book because what’s missing is his best strength, the power to describe the everyday in lasting images. But I’m not intimidated by greatness, and I think this book is an example of a great theme (moral corruption easing in, in little ways) presented less well than it might be, by a writer meeting a deadline, paying a big bill, or simply getting old. Steinbeck, of course, is a great writer, and one of my favourites. I could never really get fond of the central character, Ethan Hawley, and the dialogue reads too much like a film script. I’m sure I’ve read this before bits of the plot seemed familiar, but it didn’t seem like an old friend revisited. The best I can do is refer you to the article at Wikipedia, though you should avoid the plot summary if you haven’t already read the book. It tells me hardly anything about the book, and I can’t redress that with a citation from 1001 Books To Read Before You Die because although Steinbeck is listed, they recommend just three of his novels to read: Cannery Row The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men. Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to share these old reviews from my reading journals… like last week’s one for Steppenwolf, this one is a disappointment to me. First edition, Viking Press, 1961 (Wikipedia) ![]() ![]() The French artist (1832 – 83) interpreted the conventions of popular Victorian art – fantasy, romance, satire, the medieval and Gothic, the literary and grotesque – as “engrossed with the immediacy of evil, the inescapability of the physical, and the disengagement of morbid humour”.īut can six hundred and twenty-six lines of Coleridge’s poetry be encapsulated in pictures? The University of Plymouth’s The Big Readtried it in 2020 with some success, creating an immersive work of audio and visual art from the 21st century. Published as Der alte Matrose in Leipzig, the text was well-suited to Doré’s intense and haunting style. ![]() Gustave Doré created these illustrations for a 1877 German edition The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ![]() ![]() – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 ![]() ![]() ![]() Best Inspirational Novel (Huntress): 2017 Ozarks Indie Book Festival ![]() Gold Medal Winner (Huntress): 2017 The Wishing Shelf Book Awards- 1st Place Winner (Huntress): 2012 Women of Faith Writing Contest Gold Medal Winner (Huntress): 2018 Illumination Awards Young Adult Book of the Year (Huntress): 2018 Christian Book Awards With Satan's eyes now fixed on Audrey, a battle for the safety of the living looms in the shadows.įans of The Mortal Instruments, Supernatural, and This Present Darkness, won’t want to miss this epic story of unfailing love and adventure. When an ancient weapon of unparalleled power chooses Audrey as its wielder, attracting the cautious gazes of her fellow hunters and the attention of Satan himself, Logan is the only one she can trust. ![]() It doesn't help that her trainer, Logan, is as infuriating as he is attractive. She's convinced there's been a cosmic mistake after all, she'd rather discuss the color of her nails than break them on angelic weapons. No one's afterlife is as dispiriting as Audrey's-at least that's what she believes after waking up dead without her memories and being promptly assigned to hunt demons for the rest of eternity. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second season, honestly, what’s amazing is that all the characters that people loved in the first one, they get so much more to do, they grow in the most bizarre directions. I think HAPPY!’s got something, a certain soul that comes from that little horse. He developed HAPPY! for television with director Brian Taylor.ĪSSIGNMENT X: Congratulations on the second season pickup for HAPPY! Were you at all surprised by the pickup? Morrison, who hails from Glasgow, Scotland, is a prolific writer on multiple comics series and creator of the BATMAN villain Professor Pyg. HAPPY! began as a graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Darick Robertson. So Happy has moved on to a new person who needs a best friend – the appalled Nick. ![]() In HAPPY! Season 1, Christopher Meloni’s ex-cop-turned-alcoholic-hitman Nick Sax is enlisted by Happy (an animated being in an otherwise live-action show, voiced by Patton Oswald), the flying blue unicorn imaginary best friend of Nick’s little daughter Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo), to rescue the child.īy the end of Season 1, Hailey was not only rescued from the most perverse bad guys imaginable, but she was maturing enough that she no longer needed Happy. Syfy’s HAPPY!, a unique combination of whimsy and mayhem, begins its second season Wednesday, March 27. ![]() |