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The Need to Feed: A Hedonist’s Guide

September 29, 2012

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Eating well is the best revenge. It is a rebellion against the ubiquitous mass marketing of junk-filled foods that flood the airways, bottleneck the highways, and have transformed America into a festering fast-food nation of super-sized junk food junkies… Can you take a heaping tablespoon of raunchy, add it to a cup of sexy and still come up with a useful cookbook? In the case ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: cookbook, recipes

Beautiful Lies

September 28, 2012

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Set in late 1800s England, Beautiful Lies is the story of Maribel Campbell Lowe and her husband, Liberal MP, Edward Campbell Lowe. The story follows Edward’s mission to bring economic relief to the working classes in England who, at that time, are in the midst of massive poverty and joblessness. This part of the story is clearly defined and well thought out. Clare Clark has ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: historical fiction

The Great Work of Your Life

September 26, 2012

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If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you; if you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.  The Great Work of Your Life opens with these lines from the Gnostic Gospels of Thomas Author Stephen Cope then skillfully relates “what is within you” to the Hindu concept of dharma. However, as seen by the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: Bantam, self-help, spirituality

The Forgiven

September 24, 2012

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The suburbs of Tangiers were ruined, but the gardens were still there. And so were the crippled lemon trees and olives, the dogged disillusion and empty factories, the smell of seething young men. A sybaritic weekend in the Saharan desert of Morocco, at a fantastically renovated fortress compound. Richard and Dally have invited friends from around the globe and for Londoners, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Africa, book clubs, cultural, Hogarth, literary

The Headmaster’s Wager

September 21, 2012

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  In 1930 Percival Chen’s father left him and his mother in mainland China to go to Vietnam and seek his fortune. He never returned and so, after his mother’s death, Percival left their province to go to school in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the Japanese invasion in 1941 meant that Hong Kong was no longer safe, but it precipitated Percival’s marriage to a young beauty much above ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, China, Doubleday, historical fiction, Vietnam, Vietnam War

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza

September 19, 2012

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Patience is indeed a virtue when it comes to making good bread. There are few aromas more comforting and enticing then that of freshly baking bread and in Portland, few places better to find that aroma than Ken’s Artisan Bakery. I’m not just saying this because I’ve heard that Ken’s is great but because I used to go there on Sundays for a fresh croissant that was the epitome ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: baking, bread-making, cookbook, debut, recipes

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