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Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families

By: Myra Alperson

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Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families

By: Myra Alperson

An informed, comprehensive guide to raising a multicultural family. How many times do you celebrate the New Year at home? Just once? If your family is Jewish, Chinese, and a few other things besides, you might celebrate twice or even three times a year! As the rate of cross-cultural adoption grows in the United States, new traditions are emerging. These are part of a new multiculturalism which, with its attendant joys and challenges, has become a fact of life in urban, suburban and even rural America. Alperson's sourcebook offers families the first complete guide to the tangled questions that surround this important phenomenon. As the adoptive Jewish mother of Sadie, her Chinese-born daughter, Alperson is able to offer personal as well as professional insight into such topics as combining cultures in the home, confronting prejudice, and developing role models. Focusing on adoptive families - international and transracial adoption in the United States has jumped in recent years - she provides guidelines on how families can prepare for their exciting journey toward becoming a multicultural family. In addition to drawing on extensive interviews with such families, her book includes a wealth of on-line and "conventional" resources to find books, food products, toys, clothing, discussion groups and heritage camps that help families to enhance their lives as they build a multicultural home.

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296

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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ISBN 10

1466800461

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9781466800465

Nosh New York

The Food Lover's Guide to New York City's Most Delicious Neighborhoods

By: Myra Alperson

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Nosh New York

The Food Lover's Guide to New York City's Most Delicious Neighborhoods

By: Myra Alperson

Whether you're a lifelong New Yorker or you're visiting for the first time, when you're in the Big Apple you're in food heaven - a nosher's paradise where you can find the freshest and most authentic foods of any cuisine in the world, from steaming soup dumplings to Persian Kebabs, Moroccan tagines, Chinese bubble tea, Senegalese ginger beer, Colombian cholados, kosher focaccia bread, the freshest Italian cheeses, Guyanese roti and more! In this thorough and user-friendly book, passionate New York food guide Myra Alperson takes readers on her popular tours around town. Organized by borough and divided into easy-to-follow walks -- each of which can be done in an afternoon -- she points readers to the best ethnic restaurants, cafes, bakeries, tea houses, take-out stores, specialty shops, produce stands, supermarkets, and other food hot spots. From generations-old favorites to vibrant newcomers, the delicious discoveries and include the best: - Indian, Greek, Brazilian, Cuban, Romanian, Irish, Chinese, Afghan and Thai spots in Queens - Italian, Kosher, Caribbean, Polish, Scandinavian, Russian and Moroccan delights in Brooklyn - Chinese, West African, Soul Food, Mexican, Dominican, Korean and Turkish finds in Manhattan - Sicilian, Albanian, Jamaican and Cambodian delights in the Bronx - And much more. You'll also discover: New York's last authentic beer garden * where to buy Chilean hot dogs and Brazilian pizza* the newest wave of Egyptian markets * the last Kosher market in Brighton Beach and the only Norwegian market in New York City * fun and delectable side trips * vegetarian and kid-friendly finds * cultural information for each neighborhood, along with info on the best parks, museums, gift shops, and bookstores. Complete with subway, bus, and car directions along with detailed maps of each neighborhood covered, Nosh New York turns an afternoon in the city into a delicious food adventure.

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356

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466853387

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9781466853386

The International Adoption Handbook

How to Make Foreign Adoption Work for You

By: Myra Alperson

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The International Adoption Handbook

How to Make Foreign Adoption Work for You

By: Myra Alperson

For anyone involved in, or thinking about, adopting a child from abroad, The International Adoption Handbook is an essential guide. The process of international adoption can sometimes seem complex, frustrating, and endless. This step-by-step guide, which provides the necessary hard facts and information — as well as support through the experiences of the author and others — will help smooth the way. After a general discussion of who may adopt and what restrictions may apply, the book goes into the nitty-gritty of what the process entails: choosing where to adopt and how to go about it; using an agency or facilitator; initiating the home study; assembling a dossier; working with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; knowing the topes of expenses that can be anticipated; and many other issues. In addition, the book provides up-to-date information on resources, including what is available today on the Internet, information that was previously difficult for adoptive parents to find out on their own. Equally informative are the author's interviews of a number of adoptive families whose stories are interspersed throughout the book. By sharing their experiences, they help to make the process work for others.

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206

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Holt Paperbacks

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1466856246

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9781466856240

Nosh New York

The Food Lover's Guide to New York City's Most Delicious Neighborhoods

By: Myra Alperson

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The Food Lover's Guide to New York City's Most Delicious Neighborhoods

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St. Martin's Griffin

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The Food Lover's Guide to the Real New York

5 Boroughs of Ethnic Restuarants, Markets, and Shops

By: Myra Alperson,Mark Clifford

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The Food Lover's Guide to the Real New York

5 Boroughs of Ethnic Restuarants, Markets, and Shops

By: Myra Alperson,Mark Clifford

Surveys the New York City restaurants and stores with the authentic food of groups such as Jews, Italians, Hispanics, Afro-Americans, Russians, and West Indians

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Simon & Schuster

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0133231895

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9780133231892

Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families

By: Myra Alperson

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A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families

By: Myra Alperson

... guides adoptive parents (and parents-to-be) on the journey toward creating a family that represents more than one culture."--Cover.

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Macmillan

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0374526117

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9780374526115

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Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

Nosh New York

Nosh New York

The International Adoption Handbook

The International Adoption Handbook

Nosh New York

Nosh New York

The Food Lover's Guide to the Real New York

The Food Lover's Guide to the Real New York

Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

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