A haute stocking stuffer for Paris lovers. Haute couture and Paris sights capture Mrs. Claus's imagination--as they would any woman's! This charming story finds Mrs. Claus fabulously ensconced in Paris, having enjoyed fashion week and been lured for several months' stay by all the sights, scents, and couture of Paris. In the end, Santa takes a quick tour of the City of Light himself--the Eiffel Tower, Champs-Elysées, theLouvre, Tuileries Gardens, Notre Dame, Montmartre and more--to find the satiated Mrs. Claus and whisk her back home just in time to help the elves with the last-minute packing of toys for children all over the world.
Santa visits the big city—and winds up playing himself in the Macy’s parade—in this merry take on the classic Christmas poem… Santa’s pre-Christmas jitters start just before Thanksgiving, and Mrs. Claus knows just what he needs to boost his holiday spirit—a trip to fabulous NYC for a little R&R (and a little shopping for her). They’re checking out chic stores when what should happen but the Macy’s parade official spots this Santa on the street and convinces him to fill in and “play” Santa in the parade. Santa can’t help but laugh at the thought of how surprised everyone would be if they knew. The cheering of the children will boost Santa’s confidence for another year—and later that night, Mr. C borrows the parade sleigh to take a flight over all the boroughs of the city…
Santa, get yer spurs on. It's Christmas night when a freezing - cold Santa decides to look for a warm midwinter vacation spot while on his magical trip 'round the world delivering toys. Of course, Mrs. Claus wants to be in on the fun, so she climbs aboard. They have their sights on Texas and take a flight over the state pointing out cities, landscapes, and attractions of the great Lone Star state!
A haute stocking stuffer for Paris lovers. Haute couture and Paris sights capture Mrs. Claus's imagination--as they would any woman's! This charming story finds Mrs. Claus fabulously ensconced in Paris, having enjoyed fashion week and been lured for several months' stay by all the sights, scents, and couture of Paris. In the end, Santa takes a quick tour of the City of Light himself--the Eiffel Tower, Champs-Elysées, theLouvre, Tuileries Gardens, Notre Dame, Montmartre and more--to find the satiated Mrs. Claus and whisk her back home just in time to help the elves with the last-minute packing of toys for children all over the world.
With a vast selection of foods and thousands of recipes to choose from, how do home cooks in America decide what to cook – and what does their cooking mean to them? Answering this question, Making Dinner is an empirical study of home cooking in the United States. Drawing on a combination of research methods, which includes in-depth interviews with over 50 cooks and cooking journals documenting over 300 home-cooked dinners, Roblyn Rawlins and David Livert explore how American home cooks think and feel about themselves, food, and cooking. Their findings reveal distinct types of cook-the family-first cook, the traditional cook, and the keen cook -and demonstrate how personal identities, family relationships, ideologies of gender and parenthood, and structural constraints all influence what ends up on the plate. Rawlins and Livert reveal research that fills the data gap on practices of home cooking in everyday life. This is an important contribution to fields such as food studies, health and nutrition, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, gender studies, and American studies.
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