I am Toni Pearl Holmes. I was born in El Paso, Texas, on January 20, 1949. I have two brothers who live in El Paso. I now reside in Waco, Texas. I have lived in Waco for over 41 years. I am single; I am also a preacher, and a teacher in a learning center. I have enjoyed writing all my life. I love writing short stories of all types. I love children. I graduated from A.J. Moore High School in 1968. I have taken several courses in child development. I received a Child Development Certificate in 1981. I also reapplied in 1993 and regained that status, which expired after five years. I am currently working on getting a certificate in childcare. I consider myself to have a creative mind. I like board games, and I love all kinds of music. I enjoy reading. I am a people person. I like to do improvisations. But I Donat Want to Think About It is my first published book. I have previously received several honorable mentions.
While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or when her own citizens have emigrated among those foreigners to live or rule. This book explores the foreign element in English culture and the attempt by English writers from the early 19th to the mid 20th century to portray their complex and often ambiguous responses to that doubly foreign element among them: the foreign woman. While being foreign may begin with national or ethnic difference, the contributors to this book expand it to include other forms of alienation from a dominant culture, resulting from gender, race, class, ideology, or temperament. The many factors shaping English national identity—including British imperialism, immigration patterns, English family and social structures, and English common law—have been shaped by gender-related issues. Though not a prominent literary figure, the foreign woman in England has received increasingly critical attention in recent years as a psychological and sociological phenomenon. By beginning with Byron in the early 19th century and concluding with Lawrence Durrell in the 20th century, this study contributes to a more comprehensive vision of the foreign woman as she is portrayed by a number of British authors, including Shelley, Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronté, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Anita Brookner.
Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award, 2016 Art of Eating Prize, 2015 BCALA Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2016 Women of African descent have contributed to America’s food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by the demeaning stereotype of an illiterate “Aunt Jemima” who cooked mostly by natural instinct. To discover the true role of black women in the creation of American, and especially southern, cuisine, Toni Tipton-Martin has spent years amassing one of the world’s largest private collections of cookbooks published by African American authors, looking for evidence of their impact on American food, families, and communities and for ways we might use that knowledge to inspire community wellness of every kind. The Jemima Code presents more than 150 black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827 house servant’s manual, the first book published by an African American in the trade, to modern classics by authors such as Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor. The books are arranged chronologically and illustrated with photos of their covers; many also display selected interior pages, including recipes. Tipton-Martin provides notes on the authors and their contributions and the significance of each book, while her chapter introductions summarize the cultural history reflected in the books that follow. These cookbooks offer firsthand evidence that African Americans cooked creative masterpieces from meager provisions, educated young chefs, operated food businesses, and nourished the African American community through the long struggle for human rights. The Jemima Code transforms America’s most maligned kitchen servant into an inspirational and powerful model of culinary wisdom and cultural authority.
The Meal Idea: Yummy Slow Cooker Meals and Metabolism Boosting Recipes book features both slow cooker recipes and the metabolism boosting diet. You will find a wide variety of slow cooker meal ideas along with the metabolism diet that features metabolism booster foods to make meal planning easy if you wish to jump into a healthier lifestyle. Start with metabolism diet and slow cooker meal ideas for the week to make cooking great tasting meals. The metabolism diet and slow cooker meal plans are great when combined. Meal Idea features these sections: What Is the Difference Between a Slow Cooker and a Crock Pot, Slow Cookers and Food Safety, The Advantages to Cooking with a Slow Cooker, Tips for Making the Most of Your Slow Cooker, You can Even Make Meatloaf in the Slow Cooker, Breakfast Recipes, Snack, Dessert, and Appetizer Recipes, Soup and Stew Recipes, Main Dish and One Dish Meals, 5 Day Meal Plan, Metabolism Diet, Metabolism Diet Allowable Foods, Metabolism Diet Avoided Foods List, How the Metabolism Diet Helps with Weight Loss, Other Foods Found to Boost Metabolism, The Best Beverage for Boosting metabolism, Advice to Help Facilitate Weight Loss While on the Metabolism Diet, Sample 5 Day Menu Plan, Breakfast Recipes, Bread Recipes, Snacks, Desserts and Appetizer Recipes, Side Dish Recipes, and Main Dish Recipes. A sampling of the included recipes are: Slow Cooked Italian Beef, Baked Stuffed Mushrooms, Flat Bread with Flax, Corned Beef Brisket and Cabbage, and Breakfast Cheese Strata with Vegetables.
The last remark chilled Jill to the bone. Her mind was racing. What did she have here? It was a confession from a killer. The man she once thought she was in love with was a murderer. This was no protector of the public; he was as bad as her uncle. If he was telling her the truth, it must mean she was in danger again...no way Jack. She reached slowly for her purse on the seat beside her. She fumbled with the clasp to get to her revolver. Her hand closed on the metal. Slowly she pulled the weapon free, put it level under the table, and pulled the trigger.
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