On a visit to her granny, Maggie is excited to begin her first-ever beading project: a pair of strawberry earrings. However, beading is much harder than she expected! As they work side by side, Granny shares how beading helped her persevere and stay connected to her Anishinaabe culture when she lost her Indian status, forcing her out of her home community—all because she married someone without status, something the men of her community could do freely. As she learns about patience and perseverance from her granny’s teachings, Maggie discovers that beading is a journey, and like every journey, it’s easier with a loved one at her side. In this beautifully illustrated book, children learn about the tradition of Anishinaabe beadwork, strawberry teachings, and gender discrimination in the Indian Act.
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of co-author Jenny Kay Dupuis’ grandmother, I Am Not a Number is a hugely necessary book that brings a terrible part of Canada’s history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.
On a visit to her granny, Maggie is excited to begin her first-ever beading project: a pair of strawberry earrings. However, beading is much harder than she expected! As they work side by side, Granny shares how beading helped her persevere and stay connected to her Anishinaabe culture when she lost her Indian status, forcing her out of her home community—all because she married someone without status, something the men of her community could do freely. As she learns about patience and perseverance from her granny’s teachings, Maggie discovers that beading is a journey, and like every journey, it’s easier with a loved one at her side. In this beautifully illustrated book, children learn about the tradition of Anishinaabe beadwork, strawberry teachings, and gender discrimination in the Indian Act.
Most of us don’t have the luxury of being able to linger at fresh produce markets and specialist delicatessens, followed by a few hours in the kitchen, dreaming up menus to delight our families at mealtimes. If we’re lucky, it’s a dash to the nearest supermarket to grab a few items for trusted but boring everyday meals. At worst, it’s fast food, leaving your family soaked in MSG and trans fatty acids, and you full of guilt! There must be a happy middle ground. Enter Fuss-free Suppers. Super cooks Jenny Kay and Elinor Storkey show you how to create meals with the minimum of fuss and time, and which your family will love. It’s all in the planning and organisation. With the right tools and equipment, a well-stocked pantry (all covered in the book), and this selection of recipes, you’ll be a new person – at least in the kitchen! Chapters include chicken, beef, pork, lamb, fish, pizza and pasta, vegetarian and side dishes.
Since 1964, South African newspaper readers have loved and relied on Angela Day’s recipes. Appearing in The Star, The Pretoria News, The Cape Argus and The Daily News, this twice-weekly column (latterly included as part of the Verve supplement) has provided a culinary helpline and recipes for economical and seasonal family fare, as well as dishes for entertaining guests that anyone can make. The recipes are tried and tested, user friendly and make use of easy-to-find ingredients. Backed by a loyal readership and strong brand identity, the team presents this compilation of recent favourites, as well as all-time classics, each accompanied by a colour photograph.
People with gluten intolerance or coeliac (celiac) disease often struggle to find suitable recipes. Gluten-free ingredients can be expensive, making it a challenge to prepare family meals that don’t break the budget. One of the keys to successful gluten-free cooking is knowing which flour will give the best result. The introduction lists the various types of gluten-free and gluten-containing flours and includes a gluten-free flour mix which forms the basis of many recipes in the book. The South African Gluten-free Cookbook offers 100 tried-and-tested recipes that are perfect for everyday family meals, as well as for entertaining. Baking and desserts receive special attention, but there are also recipes for great-tasting breads, quiches, noodles and pasta dishes that make use of a variety of gluten-free flours and flour substitutes. In keeping with current food trends, many of the recipes feature ingredients like cauliflower, quinoa, kale, polenta, salmon, blueberries and seeds, while traditional cooking holds its own with gluten-free waffles, pumpkin fritters, mince pies and Yorkshire pudding.
This colourful illustrated collection of recipes features 101 delectable sweet and savoury loaves, cakes and biscuits. Delicious and simple recipes reaveal the author's secrets fro successful baking.
Braai – 166 moderne resepte om te deel met familie en vriende is ’n wye versameling byderwetse braairesepte vir vandag se leefstyl. Braai is deel van die Suid-Afrikaanse lewenswyse en ’n groot gunsteling as dit kom by familie en vriende onthaal. Of jy nou ’n oop vuur, ’n braaiketel of gasbraaier verkies, dié resepte gaan jou aanspoor om uit te kom en die vars lug en puik plaaslike produkte ten beste te geniet. Die eenvoudige uitleg, lieflike foto’s en maklike aanwysings maak van die boek ’n heerlike, nuttige hulpmiddel wat ewe veel inslag sal vind by groentjies en ervare braaiers.
Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather, this authorized, annotated and illustrated edition of the complete, unedited screenplay includes all the little-known facts, behind-the-scenes intrigue, and first-person reflections from cast and crew members on the making of this landmark film. From its ingenious cinematic innovations and memorable, oft-quoted script to its iconic cast, including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, The Godfather is considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made. And yet, the history of its making is so colorful, so chaotic, that one cannot help but marvel at the seemingly insurmountable odds it overcame to become a true cinematic masterpiece, and a film that continues to captivate its audience decades after its release. In this authorized, annotated, and illustrated edition of the complete screenplay, nearly every scene is examined and dissected, including: Fascinating commentary on technical details about the filming and shooting locations Tales from the set, including arguments, accidents, anecdotes and practical jokes Profiles of the actors and stories of how they were cast Deleted scenes that never made the final cut, and the goofs and gaffes that did And much more! Interviews with former Paramount executives, cast and crew members, and director Francis Ford Coppola, round out the commentary and shed new light on everything you thought you knew about this most influential film. With more than 200 photographs, this a truly unique, collectable keepsake for every Godfather fan.
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