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The Art of Escapism Cooking

A Survival Story, with Intensely Good Flavors

By: Mandy Lee

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The Art of Escapism Cooking

A Survival Story, with Intensely Good Flavors

By: Mandy Lee

In this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable living situation, with more than eighty delicious Asian-inspired dishes with influences from around the world. For Mandy Lee, moving from New York to Beijing for her husband’s work wasn’t an exotic adventure—it was an ordeal. Growing increasingly exasperated with China’s stifling political climate, its infuriating bureaucracy, and its choking pollution, she began “an unapologetically angry food blog,” LadyandPups.com, to keep herself from going mad. Mandy cooked because it channeled her focus, helping her cope with the difficult circumstances of her new life. She filled her kitchen with warming spices and sticky sauces while she shared recipes and observations about life, food, and cooking in her blog posts. Born in Taiwan and raised in Vancouver, she came of age food-wise in New York City and now lives in Hong Kong; her food reflects the many places she’s lived. This entertaining and unusual cookbook is the story of how “escapism cooking”—using the kitchen as a refuge and ultimately creating delicious and satisfying meals—helped her crawl out of her expat limbo. Illustrated with her own gorgeous photography, The Art of Escapism Cooking provides that comforting feeling a good meal provides. Here are dozens of innovative and often Asian-influenced recipes, divided into categories by mood and occasion, such as: For Getting Out of Bed Poached Eggs with Miso-Browned Butter Hollandaise Crackling Pancake with Caramel-Clustered Blueberries and Balsamic Honey For Slurping Buffalo Fried Chicken Ramen Crab Bisque Tsukemen For a Crowd Cumin Lamb Rib Burger Italian Meatballs in Taiwanese Rouzao Sauce For Snacking Wontons with Shrimp and Chili Coconut Oil and Herbed Yogurt Spicy Chickpea Poppers For Sweets Mochi with Peanut Brown Sugar and Ice Cream Recycled Nuts and Caramel Apple Cake Every dish is sublimely delicious and worth the time and attention required. Mandy also demystifies unfamiliar ingredients and where to find them, shares her favorite tools, and provides instructions for essential condiments for the pantry and fridge, such as Ramen Seasoning, Fried Chili Verde Sauce, Caramelized Onion Powder Paste, and her Ultimate Sichuan Chile Oil.

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853

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HarperCollins

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0062940880

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9780062940889

Summer by the Lake

An absolutely funny and charming summer romance to fall in love with in 2024

By: Mandy Baggot

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Summer by the Lake

An absolutely funny and charming summer romance to fall in love with in 2024

By: Mandy Baggot

Going home has never been easy... With her dad in hospital, Robyn Matthers needs to go home and take charge. But does she have the strength to do it? Cole Ryan is on a personal mission. Tall, dark and handsome, Robyn has certainly noticed the brooding hockey player around town. But can she trust her feelings – or his? But she can't risk the past she's kept buried for so long coming out and he hasn't opened his heart for a long time. Will the two of them be able to finally open up, and let themselves, just maybe, fall in love... Previously published as Taking Charge. *** Readers LOVE Mandy Baggot: 'Mandy NEVER ceases to amaze me! This book was so amazing. I connected with Robyn and one day the old romantic in me wants to meet my Cole!' - Amazon reviewer, 5* 'Ice hockey players, need I say more, especially good looking, talented, sexy ice-hockey players!' - Amazon reviewer, 5* 'I laughed and I cried my way through this book and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.' - Amazon reviewer, 5* 'I can honestly say that this was my favourite by this author...' - Amazon reviewer, 5* 'Ms Baggot has delivered a novel full of wit, charm, twists, turns and shocks...' - Amazon reviewer, 5*

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380

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1789546338

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9781789546330

Why Not Me?

The Battle for My Life and My Baby

By: Mandy Mcmillan

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Why Not Me?

The Battle for My Life and My Baby

By: Mandy Mcmillan

Mandy McMillan was not a fighter. She was ordinary: a hairdresser, a party girl, a bit of a coward when it came to all things medical. The worst she'd ever fought was a cold. Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 - the second in her group of five friends to be struck down by the disease. She'd had a one in 1,900 chance of getting it. Her cancer was incurable; chemotherapy almost killed her, her body was so ravaged that she almost gave up, but Mandy battled on. Her one stroke of good fortune? The arrival of new wonder-drug, Herceptin. Then a miracle happened: Mandy gave birth to Britain's first Herceptin baby, a little girl conceived, carried and born to a mum on long-term treatment. A drug saved Mandy McMillan, now a daughter called Holly is keeping her alive. And she will fight every single day to see her child grow up.

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195

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0755363094

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9780755363094

Sydney Noir

By: Kirsten Tranter,Mandy Sayer,Eleanor Limprecht

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Sydney Noir

By: Kirsten Tranter,Mandy Sayer,Eleanor Limprecht

Australia’s largest city “provides fertile ground for dark doings, as these 14 tales demonstrate . . . [a] cavalcade of crime Down Under” (Kirkus Reviews). Includes Kirsten Tranter’s Edgar Award-nominated “The Passenger” Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, “Sydney Noir brings together 14 compelling short stories by established and emerging Australian authors, each offering a startling glimpse into the dark heart of Sydney and its sprawling suburbs” (Sydney Morning Herald, Australian edition review). This anthology includes brand-new stories by Kirsten Tranter, Mandy Sayer, John Dale, Eleanor Limprecht, Mark Dapin, Leigh Redhead, Julie Koh, Peter Polites, Robert Drewe, Tom Gilling, Gabrielle Lord, Philip McLaren, P.M. Newton, and Peter Doyle. Shortlisted for the Danger Award presented by BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival Included in CrimeReads’s Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019 “Akashic delivers another impeccable anthology with Sydney Noir, a deep dive into the mean streets, artistic outlets, and sultry demimonde of Australia’s largest (and liveliest) city.”—CrimeReads “The 14 uniformly strong selections feature familiar subgenre figures: gangsters, ethically compromised cops, and people bent on revenge for the loss of a loved one . . . Fans of dark crime fiction will want to seek out other works by these contributors, most of whom will be unfamiliar to American readers.”—Publishers Weekly “Here is a tough but tender vision of multicultural working-class Australia, with all its wards and anxieties.”—Australian Book Review

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181

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Akashic Books

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1617756881

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9781617756887

Art, aesthetics and ethics of tattooing

Analysis of a tattoo business in Hamilton

By: Mandy Shaver

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Art, aesthetics and ethics of tattooing

Analysis of a tattoo business in Hamilton

By: Mandy Shaver

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2018 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, The University of Waikato, language: English, abstract: The thesis is about the art, aesthetics and ethics of tattooing, for answering these questions: How do tattoo artists and their clients engage with and shape tattoo art and its aesthetic? And how do these tattoo artists’ ethics influence their relationships with their clients and art? These questions are answered at Flax Roots Tattoo Studio, a tattoo business in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand. This studio offers clients different styles of tattooing to choose from, like Moko, Traditional European, Portrait, and Traditional American. Tattoo artists and their clients differ in ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, occupation, age, hobbies, and so on. Anthropological research and philosophical insight provided the framework texts for my case study. The fieldwork consisted of semi-structured interviews and photographs of artists and clients. By participating in tattooing, these individuals influence the art and the aesthetic tastes of their local culture. Additionally, tattoo artists follow an ethical code that dictates how to run their business, preserve their art, and protect their clients.

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261

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GRIN Verlag

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3346041344

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9783346041340

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Why Not Me?

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