Mistletoe for the Generation Lost by Francisco Duarte In a small European country a powerful insurgent group emerged from the broken streets to bring down the government. While her nation is ravaged by war a young woman, Carolina, has to deal with the fact that her heart holds the burden of a forbidden passion. Now Christmas is drawing near, and the intensity of her past is demands Carolina to take a stand against all the senseless violence around her. Can she muster the courage to go into the very core of the insurgency and face the man she has always loved? Love Returns at Christmas by Anya Tikka Love Returns at Christmas is a story of star-crossed childhood sweethearts in a small Catskills, New York town whose love goes through testing times. Seemingly everything conspires to keep them apart, starting with their own parents. The couple Jessie and Matthew come from very different backgrounds, and become lovers at a high school dance. When their parents find out, each one is told not to date, and many think it's because of the differences in wealth and status. But is there something deeper hidden behind the families' outright dislike and anger at each other? Little by little the threads woven long time ago start to unravel to expose a past the young couple could not have imagined. Will their love win in the end? A Christmas Diary of Love by Amy Carothers Laura Norman can't seem to forget about the stay in Italy on an exchange program, when she fell in love with Paolo. She cannot forget that time, and her memory of it eludes her every Holiday season before Christmas. Intrigued by a new man, she begins to journal about him, as well as her experience with love. Little does she know that her journaling will be read by a stranger, revealing her innermost feelings on romance. Her privacy is broken, along with the leash she's kept upon her own heart. Will she let go, and love again? In Love with...Santa? by LaRae L Parry Aspiring journalist, Shelby Sam, dresses up like a man in order to snag a Santa Claus gig so she can get in the with President of the Celebrity rag that she wants to write for. While applying for the Santa job (disguised as a man), she literally runs into Derrick, the most beautiful man she has ever seen. She desperately desires to be with him. Too bad he thinks she's not only a guy, but also a fellow Santa Claus worker. As usual, Shelby gets herself in a jam - this time, only Santa himself can straighten her mess. Can the man she loves accept her lies as a phony guy, playing a phony Santa to get a job with the company that Derrick's father owns? Does Santa have that much magic in his bag?
Offering more than 260 recipes, a collection of Thai, Vietnamese, Australian, Malaysian, and Indonesian dishes includes tropical fruits, traditional meats, aromatic soups, and fragrant seafood in treats such as Gingered Salmon Parcels, Shrimp and Shittake Ravioli, and Jasmine Jazz Tiramisu.
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Financial Times, The Guardian, and BBC's The Food Programme “Anya von Bremzen, already a legend of food writing and a storytelling inspiration to me, has done her best work yet. National Dish is a must-read for all those who believe in building longer tables where food is what bring us all together.” —José Andrés “If you’ve ever contemplated the origins and iconography of classic foods, then National Dish is the sensory-driven, historical deep dive for you . . . [an] evocative, gorgeously layered exercise in place-making and cultural exploration, nuanced and rich as any of the dishes captured within.” —Boston Globe In this engrossing and timely journey to the crossroads of food and identity, award-winning writer Anya von Bremzen explores six of the world’s most fascinating and iconic culinary cultures—France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and Turkey—brilliantly weaving cuisine, history, and politics into a work of scintillating connoisseurship and charm We all have an idea in our heads about what French food is—or Italian, or Japanese, or Mexican, or . . . But where did those ideas come from? Who decides what makes a national food canon? Anya von Bremzen has won three James Beard Awards and written several definitive cookbooks, as well as her internationally acclaimed memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking. In National Dish, she investigates the truth behind the eternal cliché—“we are what we eat”—traveling to six storied food capitals, going high and low, from world-famous chefs to culinary scholars to strangers in bars, in search of how cuisine became connected to place and identity. A unique and magical cook’s tour of the world, National Dish brings us to a deep appreciation of how the country makes the food, and the food the country.
Tourism to and within India has undergone some important changes in recent years seen by the rising numbers of international tourists and increase in domestic tourism. This has led to the redevelopment and rebranding of many of its destinations as the Indian government has begun to recognise the potential importance of tourism to the Indian economy and has begun to invest in tourism infrastructure. It is also recognised that as its economy continues to grow at a rapid rate, India will also become one of the most important countries in terms of future outbound tourism. Tourism and India is the first book to specifically focus on and fully analyze the issues facing contemporary India both as a destination and a potential source of tourists. The book analyses previous research and applies critical theory to key aspects of tourism in this region and supports this with a wide range of examples to illustrate the key conceptual points. As such the book examines aspects of tourism in India including tourism governance, cultural tourism, heritage tourism, nature-based tourism from the supply side and international tourism, domestic tourism, outbound tourism and the Indian Diaspora from the demand side. This timely book includes original research to offer insights into India’s future development in terms of tourism. It will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the areas of Tourism, Geography and related disciplines.
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