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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Etiquette & entertaining
In any society, a foreigner learning the language must also learn
what passes for good manners. The same is true for the historian
trying to understand the social rules of a period and why these
change. This book explores the nature and development of early
modern conceptions of good manners, and examines some of the
particular forms of everyday behaviour which these conceptions
implied. `Courtesy' and `Civility' were among the values central to
Tudor and Stuart assumptions and fears about the social and
political order.
Powder Puff Principles is about remembering the grace and good
manners our mothers and grandmothers displayed in their dress,
behavior, and the image they projected, while preparing ourselves
to do the same for our children. Powder Puff Principles is about
being polished and prepared, and adhering to morals and integrity.
These principles allow us to embrace our own strengths and
femininity while empowering us to do anything we put our minds to.
Take a swig of the Wild, Wild West with 60 historically inspired cattle
kingdom cocktails.
Based on trail life after the Civil War, the cow towns at the time, and
on the drinks enjoyed there, Cowboy Cocktails gives you a true taste of
the cowboy lifestyle. With charming sidebars throughout, learn some
surprising history about cowboys and their experiences in the Wild West
like:
- Free Lunch – During the cowboy era, American saloons offered
“free lunch,” or small bites served gratis alongside drink orders. A
typical free lunch included smoked oysters, crackers with Limburger
cheese, rye bread, and sardines. If you want to recreate a free lunch
and make it a feast, add salted peanuts, sauerkraut, cold cuts,
pretzels, and dill pickles. Crafty saloon owners knew that such salty
offerings not only kept customers around longer but kept them thirsty
for more.
- Chili Powder – German immigrant William Gebhardt first pulverized
dried chile peppers by using a meat grinder in the 1890s. The powder
was popularized along the Wells Fargo stagecoach line in Texas and
became a boon to home cooks and chuck wagon chefs alike. The powder
also helped popularize chili as a recognizable dish across the US.
With whiskey-, tequila-, and gin-based cocktail recipes complemented by
some serious cowboy lore, this cocktail book full of captivatingly
photographed cowboy drinks will transport you to the rough and wild
times of the American Old West. Some of the cocktails you can make
include:
- Dead Man’s Hand – bourbon whiskey, agave nectar, spicy bitters,
Peychaud’s bitters; fun fact: named for the cards Wild Bill Hickok was
holding when he was shot, now called the “dead man’s hand” (two black
aces and two black eights)
- Watermelon Ranch Water – blanco tequila, lime juice, fresh
watermelon juice, Topo Chico (or club soda); fun fact: “ranch water” is
the name for the combination of tequila, lime juice, and sparkling water
- Madame Mustache – mezcal, agave nectar, Angostura bitters, beer;
fun fact: named for Eleanor Dumont, who operated a series of gambling
dens across the western frontier (and, yes, also had a mustache)
- I’m Your Huckleberry – bourbon whiskey, huckleberry syrup, lemon
juice, Angostura bitters; fun fact: named for a real quote said by Doc
Holliday, but made famous by Val Kilmer’s delivery of the line in the
1993 movie Tombstone
- Tombstone Tonsil Painter – rye whiskey, Tawny Port, Benedictine,
Angostura bitters; fun fact: “tonsil paint,” or “tonsil varnish,” was a
cowboy nickname for whiskey
Every cowboy enthusiast who enjoys a good drink needs this book in
their cocktail-recipe arsenal.
Cook, host and eat like a private chef with Meredith Hayden of Wishbone
Kitchen.
With more than 100 recipes ranging from 20-minute meals to showstopping
centrepieces, Meredith Hayden makes food that is both unfussy and
elegant.
Inspired by Meredith’s experience as a private chef in NYC and the
Hamptons and for fans of Dinner with Friends on YouTube, The Wishbone
Kitchen Cookbook will help you to rediscover the joy in cooking and
find any excuse to celebrate with friends and family.
A popular genre from colonial times to 1900, the conduct book
provides the youthful reader with authoritative guidance about
right moral, religious, and gender role behavior. With the aim of
teaching the young what they need to know--and believe--about
society's expectations for the ideal young man and woman, the genre
codified true American manhood and womanhood. Until now, conduct
books have been mixed in and cataloged with books on manners,
etiquette, education, religion, or success. This guide provides an
analytic and historical overview of the conduct book as a genre and
its cultural work in America. With an annotated bibliography of
over 500 books, it is the first work to provide scholars interested
in studying the cultural stance, intent, and importance of
conduct-of-life texts with easy access to conduct books. The book
provides an extensive overview of the conduct book, with separate
chapters on the development of conduct books for children, men, and
women. The fully annotated bibliography, which lists the conduct
books by their intended audience, includes 196 conduct books for
children, 142 texts for young men, 188 titles for young women, and
57 texts for adults of either sex. In addition, the work includes a
short selected bibliography of secondary sources and an index. This
guide opens the genre for further study.
There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.
When the world becomes overwhelming, Ella Risbridger focuses on the little things that bring her joy, like enjoying a glass of wine when cooking, FaceTiming with a friend whilst making bagels, and sharing recipes that are good for the soul. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up - and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.
Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chilli-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagne, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce. But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for - a manifesto of moments worth living for. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.
Featuring an entire chapter on storecupboard recipes.
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