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Pull up a chair to the kitchen table and enjoy a delicious
adventure through Bluegrass food history. Kentucky's cuisine can be
traced back to Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, English and German roots,
among others. A typical Kentucky meal might have the standard meat
and three, but there are many dishes that can't be found anywhere
else. Poke sallet, despite its toxic roots and berries, is such a
favorite in parts of eastern Kentucky that an annual festival
celebrates it. Find recipes for dishes from burgoo to hog to
moonshine and frogs. Join author Fiona Young-Brown as she details
all the delectable delights sure to make the mouth water.
Go beyond the bottle and step inside the minds- and vines- of
Virginia's burgeoning wine industry in this groundbreaking volume.
Join grape grower and industry insider Walker Elliott Rowe as he
guides you through some of the top vineyards and wineries in the
Old Dominion. Rowe explores the minds of pioneering winemakers and
vineyard owners, stitches together an account of the wine
industry's foundation in Virginia, from Jamestown to Jefferson to
Barboursville, and uncovers the fascinating missing chapter in
Virginia wine history. As the Philip Carter Winery's motto
explains, 'Before there was Jefferson, there was Carter.'
Rowe goes behind the scenes to interview migrant workers who
toil daily in the vineyards, makes the rounds in Richmond with an
industry lobbyist and talks shop with winemakers on the science and
techniques that have helped put the Virginia wine industry on the
map. Also included are twenty-four stunning color photographs from
professional photographer Jonathan Timmes and a foreword by noted
wine journalist Richard Leahy.
The British, who are rightly proud of their sporting traditions,
are now having to come to terms with the dark, unacknowledged, past
of racism in sport - until now the truth that dare not speak its
name. Conscious and unconscious racism have for decades blighted
the lives of talented black and Asian sportsmen and women,
preventing them from fulfilling their potential. In Formula One,
despite Lewis Hamilton's stellar achievements, barely one per cent
of the 40,000 people employed in the sport are of ethnic minority
heritage. In football, Britain's premier sport, the number of
non-white managers in the professional game remains pitifully
small. And in cricket, Azeem Rafiq's testimony to the Commons
select committee has exposed the scandal of prejudice faced by
Asian cricketers in the game. Veteran author and journalist Mihir
Bose examines the way racism has affected black and Asian sportsmen
and women and how attitudes have evolved over the past fifty years.
He looks in depth at the controversies that have beset sport at all
levels: from grassroots to international competitions and how the
'Black Lives Matter' movement has had a seismic impact throughout
sport, with black sports personalities leading the fight against
racism. However, this has also led to a worrying white fatigue.
Talking to people from playing field to boardroom and the media
world, he illustrates the complexities and striking contrasts in
attitudes towards race. We hear the voices of players, coaches and
administrators as Mihir Bose explores the question of how the dream
of a truly non-racial sports world can become a reality.
Theatre of the Book explores the impact of printing on the European theatre, 1480-1880. Far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printing press played an essential role in the birth of the modern theatre. Looking at playtexts, engravings, actor portraits, notation systems, and theatrical ephemera as part of the broader history of theatrical ideas, this illustrated book offers both a history of European dramatic publication and an examination of the European theatre's continual refashioning of itself in the world of print.
Arsenal 101 is an entertaining compendium of Arsenal's fascinating
history, facts, games, stories, personalities, legends and
footballing adventures. Rab MacWilliam has revisited the club's
history from its early years as Woolwich Arsenal at the end of the
nineteenth century to its status as one of the leading European
teams of the present day. Rab has distilled Arsenal's history into
101 facts, moments and stories, examining many of the key
characters, matches, controversies, innovations, and dazzling
instances of brilliance that have illuminated the proud history of
this great, if occasionally erratic, club. Funny, irreverent,
fascinating and insightful, Arsenal 101 is the ideal handbook for
Gunners fans of all ages.
The English rugby team has been scrummaging its way around the
rugby fields of the world since 1871. James Stafford's An
Illustrated History of English Rugby takes you on a thrilling
journey through a century and a half of glory, failure, mediocrity
and brilliance. Mixing stats and facts with player profiles, match
reports and social history, this book is perfect for hardcore and
casual fans aged eight to 80. Packed with delightful illustrations
from Raluca Moldovan, this follow up to Stafford's best-selling An
Illustrated History of Welsh Rugby will give readers a new
appreciation of the stars of today and the pioneers of yesteryear.
Peterborough United have a proud and illustrious history in the FA
Cup. In this book we cover every cup campaign that The Posh have
played in, with match reports from the signi?cant games, plus all
the facts and ?gures and many photographs of matches and players
that have contributed towards Posh`s deserved title of a Giant
Killersa
'Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and
brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail'
Mail on Sunday
The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the
twenty-first century through the prism of football, by the critically
acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.
'David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing
today, he is possibly the best there has ever been'
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
In the twenty-first century football is first. First among sports
themselves, but it now commands the allegiance, interest and engagement
of more people in more places than any other phenomenon. In the three
most populous nations on the earth – China, India and the United States
where just twenty years ago football existed on the periphery of
society – it has now arrived for good. Nations, peoples and
neighbourhoods across the globe imagine and invent themselves through
playing and following the game.
In The Age of Football, David Goldblatt charts football’s global
cultural ascent, its economic transformation and deep politicisation,
taking in prison football in Uganda and amputee football in Angola, the
role of football fans in the Arab Spring, the footballing presidencies
of Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Turkey’s Recep Erdogan, China’s declared
intention to both host and win the World Cup by 2050, and the FIFA
corruption scandal.
Following the intersection of the game with money, power and identity,
like no previous sports historian, Goldblatt’s sweeping story is
remarkable in its scope, breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, and is
a brilliantly original perspective of the twenty-first century. It is
the account of how football has come to define every facet of our
social, economic and cultural lives and at what cost, shaping who we
think we are and who we want to be.
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