Philadelphia Flavor contains over 250 outstanding recipes from 120 restaurants in Philadelphia, South Jersey, and Delaware including Le Bec-Fin, Four Seasons, Fork, Deux Cheminees, Dock Street, Jack's Firehouse, Philippe on Locust, and City Tavern. -- Sixteen chapters including, Cocktail Party, Vegetarian, Lunch, Brunch, and Sweet Little Somethings, plus a huge selection of first courses and entrees. -- Recipes include Smoked Duck and Goat Cheese Quesadillas, Vegetable Paella, Hazelnut Crusted Shrimp, Crispy Whole Black Bass, Cowboy Steak with Roquefort Gratinee, Riot of Wild Mushrooms, Oatmeal Sunflower Pancakes with Honey Butter, Baked Chocolate Pudding, Austrian Apple Strudel, and Caramel Nut Bars. -- Restaurant Profiles allow readers to meet the chefs, sample the menus, and get the best tables in the houses. Includes personal reflections, cooking hints, and nifty trivia. -- Wine and food pairings by expert sommeliers.
An all new collection of over 325 recipes from 150 of the Philadelphia area's best restaurants and food places. Side bars include wine pairing, culinary lore and quotations, cooking hint, and "Chef Profiles" which provide insteresting personal information about each contributor his/her business.
Since the 1980s, food and travel writers have flocked to Cape May and praised the Cape May food scene. The New York Times even called Cape May ?the restaurant capital of New Jersey.? You?ll agree when you sample the fabulous recipes collected from Cape May?s best chefs and innkeepers and showcased in Cape May Cooks.More appreciated than a seashell picture frame, less expensive than a T-shirt, Cape May Cooks features over 100 recipes from 50 of Cape May?s favorite restaurants, inns, and bed and breakfasts including: Aleathea?s, Alexander?s Inn, Angel of the Sea, Daniel?s on Broadway, Peaches at Sunset, Queen Victoria, The Chalfonte Hotel, The Ebbitt Room at the Virginia Hotel, The Mad Batter, The Mainstay Inn, The Southern Mansion, The Washington Inn and Waters Edge Restaurant. Features over 40 restaurant travel profiles with nifty details about each participating restaurant and accomodation. Doubles as a travel guide and features interesting details about each participating business plus travel tips by the innkeepers and chefs.
“How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?” Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known. In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (1875–1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907—almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States. Born to hardscrabble settlers on the Nebraska prairie, Barnard committed her energy, courage, and charismatic oratory to the cause of Progressive reform and became a political powerhouse and national celebrity. As a champion of the poor, workers, children, the imprisoned, and the mentally ill, Barnard advocated for compulsory education, prison reform, improved mental health treatment, and laws against child labor. Before statehood, she stumped across the Twin Territories to unite farmers and miners into a powerful political alliance. She also helped write Oklahoma’s Progressive constitution, creating what some heralded as “a new kind of state.” But then she took on the so-called “Indian Question.” Defending Native orphans against a conspiracy of graft that reached from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C., she uncovered corrupt authorities and legal guardians stealing oil, gas, and timber rights from Native Americans’ federal allotments. In retaliation, legislators and grafters closed ranks and defunded her state office. Broken in health and heart, she left public office and died a recluse. She remains, however, a riveting figure in Oklahoma history, a fearless activist on behalf of the weak and helpless.
Real crime scene investigation is vastly more complicated, arduous, bizarre, and fascinating than TV's streamlined versions. Most people who work actual investigations will tell you that the science never lies -- but people can. They may also contaminate evidence, or not know what to look for in crime scenes that typically are far more chaotic and confusing, whether inside or outside, than on TV. Forensic experts will tell you that the most important person entering a scene is the very first responding officer – the chain of evidence starts with this officer and holds or breaks according to what gets stepped on, or over, collected or contaminated, looked past, or looked over, from every person who enters or interprets the scene, all the way through the crime lab and trial. And forensic experts will tell you the success of a case can depend on any one expert's knowledge of quirky things, such as: "The Rule of the First Victim": (the first victim of a criminal usually lives near the criminal's home) Criminals' snacking habits at the scene"Nature's Evidence Technicians," the birds and rodents that hide bits of bone, jewelry, and fabric in their nestsThe botanical evidence found in criminals' pants cuffs Baseball caps as prime DNA repositoriesThe tales told by the application of physics to falling blood drops. Forensic experts talk about their expertise and their cases here. They also talk about themselves, their reactions to the horrors they witness, and their love of the work. For example, a DNA analyst talks about how she drives her family crazy by buccal-swabbing them all at Thanksgiving dinner. A latent print examiner talks about how he examines cubes of Jell-O at any buffet he goes to for tell-tale prints. A crime scene investigator gives his tips on clearing a scene of cops: he slaps "Bio-hazard" and "Cancer Causing Agent" stickers on his equipment. And an evidence technician talks about how hard it is to go to sleep after processing a scene, re-living what you've just witnessed, your mind going a hundred miles an hour. This is a world that TV crime shows can't touch. Here are eighty experts – including beat cops, evidence technicians, detectives, forensic anthropologists, blood spatter experts, DNA analysts, latent print examiners, firearms experts, trace analysts, crime lab directors, and prosecution and defense attorneys – speaking in their own words about what they've seen and what they've learned to journalist Connie Fletcher, who has gotten cops to talk freely in her bestsellers What Cops Know, Pure Cop, and Breaking and Entering. Every Contact Leaves A Trace presents the science, the human drama, and even the black comedy of crime scene investigation. Let the experts take you into their world. This is their book – their words, their knowledge, their stories. Through it all, one Sherlock Holmesian premise unites what they do and what it does to them: Every contact leaves a trace.
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