Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook's lyric message to anyone who has dealt with addiction. "Side A" touches on all aspects of the human condition: life, death, love, trauma, and growth. "Side B" contains haunting black-out remixes of those poems.
Some good things must come to an end, for new things to begin. Poet Alicia Cook explores this grievous emotion in her latest and final mixtape collection, The Music Was Just Getting Good. Alicia Cook is back with the highly anticipated final tracklist in her poetry collection of mixtapes, The Music Was Just Getting Good. Following in the footsteps of her first two installments, Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately (2016) and Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back (2020), Cook is closing out her trilogy with a poignant and all too relatable look at the ebbs and flows of life. And why, even during our most difficult seasons, a better day can appear just around the corner. Spread across 184 tracks (92 poems and 92 blackout poems), each paired with an accompanying song, Cook returns to her evergreen themes of mental health, hope, and recovery, and reminds readers that grief is not reserved solely for death. We may grieve who we used to be, moments that never came to pass, physical places, and, of course, people; people who’ve died, but also those who left, and those we had to leave behind. A stunning closing number in a timely and necessary collection of work, The Music Was Just Getting Good is the balm your soul has been waiting for.
Anthem-like poems about relationships, mental health, loss, and recovery from the activist and bestselling author of Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately. The reader’s experience with this unique collection is lifted from the page as Alicia Cook has collaborated with a number of up and coming musicians to transform some of her poetry into song. Like her debut book, this one is divided into two parts. Modeled after a vinyl record this time, the collection is separated into the EP record, holding Cook’s shorter poetry, and the LP record, holding Cook’s longer poetry, prose, and songwriting. Together, they form an inspiring collection for all those recovering from something. “Through each internal rhyme and turn of phrase, she presents new ways of interpreting despair, courage and overcoming. The poems are mostly devoid of gender pronouns, favoring the first and second person to promote accessibility for all. Cook is self-reliant and fully aware of how to make her voice heard.” —Asbury Park Press “This book was raw . . . Alicia Cook writes about very important topics, some of them really hard to read about, especially if they hit too close to home . . . You will always find a poem, a sentence, something that will speak to you, to your heart, to what you’re going through and this book did just that for me.” —Chapter Ninety-Two “A heartfelt, emotional, beautiful book of poems.” —The Pages In-Between
Returning to the form of Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately, Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back is a poetic mixtape dedicated to those who struggle or have struggled with their mental health. Divided into two parts, “Side A” holds 92 poems, titled as “tracks,” and “Side B” holds the “remixes,” or blackout-poetry versions, of those 92 poems. The book includes the evergreen themes of love, grief, and hope. Named after Cook’s viral Instagram poem, Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back lands in the crossroads of self-help and poetry.
In "A Taste of the World from Alicia's Kitchen," experienced cook Alicia Betancourt shares the best of her family recipes, as well as meals gathered through years of international travel. With skills developed through long practice, she fuses the tastes and cooking concepts of the Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, and Europe with techniques and ingredients easily available in the average American kitchen. The results are delectable, easy-to-prepare meals with an international flair. Alicia's recipes and their instructions are clear and detailed, containing all the information a beginner needs to cook a delicious, successful meal. She understands the frustration novice cooks often feel when they encounter incomplete recipe instructions or when cookbooks assume a certain level of knowledge. All the recipes in "A Taste of the World from Alicia's Kitchen" include simple, step-by-step instructions to ensure success. To help inexperienced cooks choose what to cook, Alicia ranks her recipes into easy, intermediate, and complex categories.While Alicia writes with the novice in mind, more experienced chefs will enjoy the ability to produce international cuisine without hunting for hard-to-find ingredients. She combines simple, fresh produce and unsaturated oils to make her meals as healthy as they are delicious. Alicia also acknowledges how pressed for time many cooks are in today's busy world, reducing preparation time by using high-quality conveniences such as canned stock, tomato sauce, and prepared pie crusts. Under Alicia's expert guidance, even newcomers to the kitchen can prepare appetizing and hunger-inducing meals. Add recipes from "A Taste of the World from Alicia's Kitchen" to your table tonight—you won't regret it.
We confuse passion and pain, turn each other into liars. We become colliding trains; no survivors, no survivors." Alicia Cook, the bestselling author behind Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately, returns with Anomaly, a melodic journey of the ending, the mending, the falling, and the loving. This surprise release of love poetry is comprised of prose, song, and illustrations.
This cookbook features more than 90 delicious recipes and dozens of helpful tips to help combat migraine symptoms through diet and lifestyle. From healthy living blogger and creator of TheDizzyCook.com, Alicia Wolf, comes the must-have cookbook for anyone managing migraines, as well as anyone who just loves to create delectable yet diet-friendly dishes. Author Alicia Wolf developed her recipes using the principles of Johns Hopkins neurologist David Buchholz's “Heal Your Headache” diet, one of the most recommended plans by health practitioners for treating migraines through diet. In this book, Alicia adds her own unique spin to the migraine diet, creating recipes that are both helpful and delicious. Inside the book you'll find: Ideas for every meal of the day Tips on how to get started The best supplements for migraine prevention and treatment Common substitutions Travel tips Meal plans And other indispensable resources Learn to make Alicia's famous blueberry muffins, smoky carrot hummus, salsa verde chicken enchiladas, roasted curry cauliflower, chewy ginger cookies, and so much more. The Dizzy Cook will inspire you to explore the infinite possibilities for healthy, appetizing, migraine-safe comfort foods.
Gathers nutritious, easy-to-prepare recipes that do not require expensive ingredients or equipment and can be prepared in twenty minutes, including southwestern chicken on the spot, garlic-roasted salmon, and miracle baked pork chops
This unique cookbook contains 50 entire meals that consist of an entree, a vegetable, and an accompanying carbohydrate, the book also includes instructions on the layout of 7 simple vegetable preparations. Each meal starts off with an introductory descriptive paragraph, ingredient listing, and full recipe layout instructions. The layout is timed minute-by-minute for each simple step to help the reader complete the meal while they cook. Any individual who follows these directions will succeed in preparing tasty meals. My book also contains a section with general cooking tips and advice on basic kitchen necessities to be purchased. These dinners have always proven to be popular choices with friends and children. This book will greatly appeal to newlyweds and college students as well as homemakers who desire ease in the preparation of flavorful and healthy meals. A menu is included on page 8 giving a short description of each meal provided within the book.
Finally—a cookbook for people who love food as much as they love fitness. ATK helps you eat delicious pre-workout, post-workout, and maintenance meals to reach your goals, improve your health, and feel your best. Whether you play tennis for fun, hit the weights after work, are a regular runner or yogi, or are aspiring to be more active, you are an everyday athlete, and eating right to fuel that fitness will up your performance and enjoyment. In conjunction with clinical dietician and nutritionist Alicia Romano, we developed recipes to give you energy and endurance for the activities you love using science-backed levels of carbohydrates, protein, and healthful fats, plus tons of flavor. You’ll learn what to eat when (and in what portions), pre-workout, post-workout, for snacks, and on every day in between. 1. Pre-workout meals that fuel your exercise; fill up on Pumpkin Spice Waffles with Yogurt and Blueberries to get pumped for your exercise of choice. 2. Post-workout meals that promote recovery; enjoy Lamb Meatballs with Lemony Wild Rice and Artichokes once you’re done for the day to help repair your muscles and replenish your body. 3. Energizing snacks/drinks to optimize your performance; try our homemade Powerade to energize your workout while cutting out excessive sugar. If you think food tailored to workouts requires sacrificing enjoyment, these meals will be a refreshingly delicious upgrade. You’ll look forward to simple-to-make yet tasty dishes such as One-Pan Coffee-Rubbed Steak with Sweet Potatoes and Apples or, even favorite snacks like Raspberry Fruit Leather and Brown Rice Balls with Spinach and Edamame. This isn’t just a recipe book. Everyone’s health requirements and routines are a little different. To help customize your meals to your eating and exercising needs, we've packed our recipes with make-ahead and storage information so you can make your favorite foods in advance. Plus, we've included menus for dietary specifications like “plant-based” or “dairy-free.” Every recipe is flavorful and quick to make. What won’t you find in this book? Demonizing definitions of bad food or restrictive diets. Let America’s Test Kitchen help you reach fitness goals while eating right—and good.
In this treasury of Cajun heritage, the author allows the people who are the very foundations of Cajun culture to tell their own stories. Nicole Denée Fontenot visited Cajun women in their homes and kitchens and gathered over 300 recipes as well as thousands of narrative accounts. Most of these women were raised on small farms and remember times when everything (except coffee, sugar and flour) was home-made. They shared traditional recipes made with modern and simple ingredients.
My Summers on Hemingway Road is based on fond childhood memories set in beautiful Charlevoix and Emmet Counties in northern lower Michigan. The book encompasses the happy, humorous, adventurous, and suspenseful experiences of the author, her family and neighbors who spent summers on Lake Charlevoix, including Ernest Hemingway's first cousins, Margaret Hemingway Bundy and Virginia Hemingway Spayde. While perfect to read to children, adults will also relive the carefree innocence of youth in this collection of short stories as you follow the adventures of the author as a young child and meet her family and colorful neighbors on Hemingway Road. Chapters Include: My First Memories of Hemingway Road Christmas in Charlevoix Settling in for our First Summer "Help, we're gonna drown!" The Cousins are Lost at Sea The Trouble with Tapioca David Rents a Row Boat The Witch of Hemingway Road Venetian Festival The Ironton Ferry Trouble at Depot Beach The Hemingway Sisters We Can't Worm our Way out of This One! Positively Poison Ivy Brother Billy's First Yacht A Trip to Grayling The Kennedy's Breakfast Goodbye The "Morel" of the Story The Cowbell and Siren Rainy Days on Hemingway Road Anchors Away The Playhouse A Boat Trip with Homer Also includes a special section containing Hemingway Road Recipes, perfect for any summer cookout.
The creators of Desperation Dinners! explain how to save time and money in the kitchen with 275 delicious recipes that are quick and easy to prepare, economical, healthy, and family friendly, and include helpful tips on stocking the pantry, shopping, menu planning, creating one's own convenience items, food substitutions, and cooking techniques. Simultaneous.
Gathers nutritious, easy-to-prepare recipes that do not require expensive ingredients or equipment and can be prepared in twenty minutes, including southwestern chicken on the spot, garlic-roasted salmon, and miracle baked pork chops
Kai Watson is only 16, but she’s never had a real dream in her life. Each night, her spirit leaves her body and travels to a new location. After witnessing the brutal murder of upperclassman Darla Baxter while astral traveling, Kai is determined to stay out of it. She never saw the murderer’s face, and who would believe her anyway? When her travels are replaced with nightmares, Kai must take the mystery into her own hands to find closure. On her search for answers, she continues to bump into Darla’s brother, Collin. If they can’t catch the killer, Kai may never learn to open her heart to him, and she may lose her gift forever.
A New Orleans native, author Alicia M. Curry has been cooking since she was a little girl, learning how to grow and use fresh spices and herbs from her great-grandmother while living in Chicago as a child. In Home is Where the Kitchen Is, she shares a collection of her favorite recipes. Curry offers easy recipes for those learning to cook as well as those wanting to experience something new. Tasty and healthy, the selections include everything from red beans and rice, to enchiladas, jambalaya pasta, and more.
Cabbage has been heralded as a cancer inhibitor in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, is loaded with vitamin C, only has 11 calories per serving, and may be added to enhance almost any recipe. It can be fried, boiled, baked, frozen, canned, or dried, and then ground in a food mill and used to thicken soup. Making it into sauerkraut is an added bonus because it is ready to us--as you will find in You Put What In My Dessert?. Sauerkraut got its start more than 2,000 years ago when the laborers building the Great Wall of China pickled cabbage in wine to supplement their diet. Genghis Khan came along and liked it so much he took it back to fortify his Tartars as they plundered their way through Europe. The Germans enjoyed the pickled cabbage and named it sauerkraut, meaning sour cabbage. Captain Cook knew of its importance when he carried sauerkraut on his ships to ward off scurvy. Sauerkraut is a mainstay in the Loveland household. Alicia keeps it rinsed, drained, chopped (in a food chopper or snipped with scissors), and sauerkraut in the refrigerator. Alicia says, It's as important to me as sourdough starter is to an Alaskan homesteader."After judging a World Federation of Competitive Eaters cabbage eating contest in Palmer a few years ago, Alicia decided You Put What In My Dessert? needed to be written. She felt sorry for contestants eating plates of plain, boiled cabbage. "I wish I could have spiced it up for them with a little caraway seed, dill, mint, mustard seed, savory, or tarragon." And topped off with a piece of cabbage Hooch Cake.
Taking steps to prevent and control diabetes doesn’t mean living in deprivation or to resign you to a lifetime of bland & boring “health food”. Making healthy food choices and tracking your eating habits can help you manage your blood glucose level and keep it within a safe range & can enjoy the same tasty, healthy, “normal” foods we all eat. The most important thing you can do for your health is to lose weight. Losing just 5% to 10% of your total weight can help you lower your blood sugar considerably, as well as lower your blood pressure and cholesterol levels. ASSORTED DIABETIC FRIENDLY RECIPES will help you control your blood sugar, as the recipes here are naturally rich in nutrients and low in fat and calories, with an emphasis on fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Delicious collection of 175 recipes including sides, soups, salads, pasta, casserole, seafood, breads, and deserts. All recipes are provided with nutritional information. Enjoy tasty, healthy meals and snacks that meet the basic needs of your eating plan & give your body a consistent source of healthy fuel.
The soul of eating clean is consuming food the way nature delivered it, or as close to it as possible. It is not a diet; it’s a lifestyle approach to food and its preparation, leading to an improved life––one meal at a time. The best way to on track with your clean-eating lifestyle for thriving good health? Proper planning. Lucky for you, we’re pros at it so you don’t have to be. Easy-to-follow Clean Eating meal plans take the guesswork out of meal prep and keep your clean eating diet on track. You get 52 weeks of Clean Eating meal plans for easy shopping, cooking and eating that is just as delicious as it is nutritious.The perfect plan is five balanced mini meals a day comprised of fresh seasonal fare that ensure your metabolism is always fired up, energy levels are high and the stress of what to eat next is low. Clean Eating meal plans average 1,400 to 1,600 calories a day, but are modifiable depending on if you require a little more, or a little less. Pick the one that’s best for you. Some of our meal plans cater to common dietary restrictions such as gluten-free, weight loss, paleo and vegetarian—so no matter how you prefer to eat, we’ve got you covered. We’ve created the detailed plans, built your shopping lists and calculated all the nutritionals so you can hit the ground running. Enjoy 52 individual weeks of easy, breezy clean eating with our no-fuss, no-fail plans that are packed with recipes, mini meals and snacks that are every bit delicious. Don’t worry, you’re not committed to a full year and you can take these plans week by week. Unless of course, you never want to stop, and we bet you will.
Hungary has plenty to offer locals and tourists alike, including a vibrant capital city, beautiful folk art, and amazing natural wonders! Through leveled text and vivid photos, this title for young readers uncovers fascinating information about Hungary’s people, customs, landscape and more. Special features such as maps, profiles, a game, and a timeline offer even more information about this European nation!
In this treasury of Cajun heritage, the author allows the people who are the very foundations of Cajun culture to tell their own stories. Nicole Denée Fontenot visited Cajun women in their homes and kitchens and gathered over 300 recipes as well as thousands of narrative accounts. Most of these women were raised on small farms and remember times when everything (except coffee, sugar and flour) was home-made. They shared traditional recipes made with modern and simple ingredients.
The creators of Desperation Dinners! explain how to save time and money in the kitchen with 275 delicious recipes that are quick and easy to prepare, economical, healthy, and family friendly, and include helpful tips on stocking the pantry, shopping, menu planning, creating one's own convenience items, food substitutions, and cooking techniques. Simultaneous.
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