With love of great cuisine and the bounty of our nation evident throughout this book, Capitol Hill Cooks contains recipes from members of Congress, as well as every president from George Washington (Cranberry Pudding) to Abraham Lincoln (Mary Todd Lincoln's Vanilla Almond Cake) to Barack Obama (The Obama Family's Linguini). Taste Vice President Biden's Kahlua Chocolate Fudge Cake, Senator Charles Grassley's Bacon and Bean Chowder, or Senator Scott Brown's Italian Soup, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's Minnesota Rhubarb Dessert or Congressman Ron Paul's Texas Sweeties?and hundreds more. Many contributors to this book even include notes about their ethnic backgrounds, favorite indigenous foods, and fond memories of meals shared with others. (Barack really likes this, the first lady says of her own apple crisp.)
This sampler of recipes follows two successful previous volumes of recipes provided by members of Congress and other political figures. Royalties will be dedicated to First Lady Laura Bush's pet literacy projects, Literacy Volunteers of America and Reading Is Fundamental.
Linda and Steve Bauer guide readers through a culinary journey across California, detailing some of the most interesting histories and delicious recipes from California's landmark restaurants. Each of the restaurants visited reveals several signature dishes to be easily replicated at home. California's cuisine comes alive as the Bauers discover the state's most historic restaurants.
Some of the best cuisine in Colorado can be enjoyed at a diversity of historic locales, from classic diners, to dude ranches, to old hotels, and even a former filling station. Please your palate as well as your appetite for historical trivia as you prepare chilled zucchini soup from Denver's Castle Marne, Spanish flan from the Twin Owls Steakhouse in Estes Park, coconut barbecue sauce from the Laramie River Ranch in North Park, or seafood gumbo from the Royal Gorge Route Railroad. A number of the recipes are historic in themselves, offering such time-honored delicacies as prime rib of buffalo from Denver's Buckhorn Exchange to The Fort in Morrison's cast iron cobbler. Intriguing stories combined with delicious recipes from some of the finest restaurants in the world are your tickets to discovering the wonders of dining in historic Colorado!
Recipes from Historic New England is a coffee table, cooking, and travel book designed to delight the senses and ignite your love of travel. From the famous Parker House rolls to the amazing scenery of The Mount Washington Hotel and Resort, to the solitude of the Inn at Sawmill Farm, each site was carefully selected by the authors and every one has much to offer the reader, cook, and traveler.
Tired of the boring chain restaurant scene? Recipes from Historic Texas will please your palate and nourish your mind. Enjoy a unique bit of Texas history by visiting a wide variety of restaurants located in unusual historic settings-a gritsmill, a Dr. Pepper bottling plant, a church, and a funeral home, to name a few. Two recipes from each establishment are offered to form a well balanced selection of Texas cuisine. A brief history of each of the 70 restaurants is included, followed by basic information such as hours of operation, location, and other important details. The recipes themselves are an eclectic mix of the simple and the exotic, from the Cowboy Omelet at Beaumont's The Pig Stand to the Jicama Salad at Dallas's famous Mansion on Turtle Creek. Two indexes, one to restaurants and the other to recipes, make the book equally useful as both a travel guide and a cook book.
This updated and substantially revised edition not only incorporates the expansion of the pharmacological armamentarium available for treatment but also integrates the explosion of evidence-based data for psychosocial interventions. The authors, a psychiatrist-nurse team, have fine-tuned their two-phase treament program and present a clear and concise approach to improving illness self-management skills, as well as social and occupational functioning.
With especially whimsical illustrations, Fruits and Flowers and Footprints OH MY!!! by Linda L. Bauer is a magical and timeless children's fable. A pleasant walk through simpler times, the author weaves a captivating and entertaining tale for families to enjoy for years and years. While preparing for a lawn party at Bittersweet Run, Peabo the Pug finds large footprints in the garden, which leads to an exciting and, at times, intrepid adventure. One by one, the pups of the plantation—and one courageous cat—try to figure out who, or what, made the rather large indentations in the soil, and when Joey goes missing it will be up to Rumford, the biggest and possibly bravest dog of all, to follow the clues. Could it be that Bigfoot is running free at Bittersweet Run? Does he have Joey? It will take all the farm critters to solve this mystery.
These are taken from the German translated daily devotions for Christians, and those still to come. The focus is always on the Word of God in the Bible. It is about faith and the practice of faith, about spiritual truths, biblical warnings and useful thoughts concerning the following of Christ in living as a Christian in this world. These are written with Christlike passion and also the translated devotions are there to encourage, strengthen, comfort and enlighten.
The present volume aims at a clarification and a discussion of the church in the 16th century: What did the reformers think about the essence and origin of the holy, apostolic and Catholic church? What was seen as the aim of it, its task and mission? Can human beings see the true church or not? Does it have one existence in this world and another in the world to come? Furthermore, the concept of church is indissolubly connected to the theological concepts of sin, faith, justification, sanctification, and salvation, and the study of the church also involves reflection upon the nature and scope of the sacraments, the role of the clergy, the aim of church-buildings, the significance of church properties and upon the constituent parts of the mass/church service. Finally, and not least, it is important to investigate the role of the church in the societies of the 16th century, such as the impact of the ruling powers upon them, their significance for education and social cohesion, and the cultural significance of migrating believers, on the run within and beyond the borders of Europe. Together with theological, philosophical and art-historical questions, these issues are considered in order to create a much fuller picture of the church at the time of the Reformation.
Profiling Saints" follows and expands the papers presented at the homonym online international conference (December 2021), which focused on cultural, theological, artistic, and social aspects of models of sanctity and their importance in the modern world up to the post-revolutionary period. This volume aims thus to shed light on the cultural value of canonizations and models of sanctity as models of Christian perfection, including the role of iconography and artworks, in the broader context of modern, global Catholicism. The topics presented by the authors include veneration to, and canonization and representations of, saint theologians, missionaries, martyrs, mystics, and reformers, men and women. "Profiling Saints" looks at modern sanctity and saints from multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from liturgy, theology, and Church history up to history of ideas, cultural history, history of emotions, and art history, and contributes to shed light on such a complex phenomenon of Christian history in its modern developments.
It is never possible to return literally to times and events of the past. Even places revisited will not be the same as they were. But we can, at least to some extent, go back in our minds. In trying to capture some of the past and record for posterity my lifetime of adventures, I find that my memory has been stretched more than I thought possible. The mind is a funny thing, and time is slippery stuff, but someone has said that we remember more than we think we do; that years after the fact, one day things fall into place and we say, "Ah yes, I remember that well.
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