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Six California Kitchens is the quintessential California cookbook,
with farm-to-table recipes and stories from Sally Schmitt, the
pioneering female chef and original founder of the French Laundry.
Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in Yountville in 1978 and
designed her menus around local, seasonal ingredients-a novel
concept at the time. In this soon-to-be-classic cookbook, Sally
Schmitt takes us through the six kitchens where she learned to
cook, honed her skills, and spent her working life. Six California
Kitchens weaves her remarkable story with 115 recipes that distill
the ethos of Northern California cooking into simple, delicious
dishes, plus evocative imagery, historic ephemera, and cooking
wisdom. With gorgeous food and sense-of-place photography, this is
a masterful, story-rich cookbook for home and aspiring chefs who
cook locally and seasonally, food historians, fans of wine country,
and anyone who wants to bring the spirit of Northern California
home with them. CALIFORNIA CONNECTION: This is a California
cookbook from a native Californian chef, who founded one of the
most well-known and revered restaurants in California (and in the
world). The book was written, photographed, and designed by members
of Sally's family. PERSON OF NOTE: Sally Schmitt was the great
unsung hero of California cuisine, a pioneer of the farm-to-table
movement, and original founder of the French Laundry restaurant in
Napa Valley. This book celebrates a respected, reputable chef and
shares a collection of her best recipes from a lifetime of cooking.
COMPELLING PACKAGE: This book is full of evocative images of Napa
Valley, rustic kitchens, and the rugged California coastline. With
lifestyle photography that offers a peek into the history of
Northern California and its food revolution, this book will appeal
to readers with its lovely design and package-but they'll stay for
the inspiring story and approachable recipes. Perfect for: * Home
cooks who cook locally and seasonally, who live in California, or
who enjoy California cuisine * Foodies who collect regional
cookbooks rich with history and visuals * People who bought Twelve
Recipes, Zuni, and Gjelina * Fans of the French Laundry and Alice
Waters
Games and elections are fundamental activities in society with
applications in economics, political science, and sociology. These
topics offer familiar, current, and lively subjects for a course in
mathematics. This classroom-tested textbook, primarily intended for
a general education course in game theory at the freshman or
sophomore level, provides an elementary treatment of games and
elections. Starting with basics such as gambling, zero-sum and
combinatorial games, Nash equilibria, social dilemmas, and fairness
and impossibility theorems for elections, the text then goes
further into the theory with accessible proofs of advanced topics
such as the Sprague-Grundy theorem and Arrow's impossibility
theorem. * Uses an integrative approach to probability, game, and
social choice theory * Provides a gentle introduction to the logic
of mathematical proof, thus equipping readers with the necessary
tools for further mathematical studies * Contains numerous
exercises and examples of varying levels of difficulty * Requires
only a high school mathematical background.
Among the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the modern
age, Nietzsche and Heidegger have become pivotal in the struggle to
define postmodernism. In this ambitious work, Gregory Bruce Smith
offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the turn to
postmodernity in the writings of these philosophers. Smith makes
the provocative case that, while rooted in Nietzsche and Heidegger,
much of postmodern thought has ironically attempted, whether
unwittingly or by design, to deflect their influence back onto a
modern path. Other alternative paths emanating from Nietzschean and
Heideggerian thought that might more powerfully speak to postmodern
culture have been ignored. Nietzsche and Heidegger, Smith argues,
have made possible a far more revolutionary critique of modernity
than even their most ardent postmodern admirers have realized.
Smith contends that the influences on the postmodern in the thought
of Nietzsche and Heidegger are founded in a new vision of praxis
liberated from theory. Ultimately, these philosophers do transcend
the nihilism often found in the guise of postmodernism. Their
thought is, moreover, consistent with the possibility of limited
constitutional government and the rule of law. Smith's book takes
the first step toward recovering these possibilities and posing the
fundamental questions of politics and ethics in ways that have
heretofore been closed off by late-modern thought.
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Spill (Paperback)
Bruce Smith
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Discovery Miles 4 980
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"There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the
necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries and the
other voice like water that seeks to saturate, erode, and boil . .
. It ruins everything you have ever saved." Spill is a book in
contradictions, embodying helplessness in the face of our dual
citizenship in the realms of trauma and gratitude, artistic
aspiration and political reality. The centerpiece of this
collection is a lyrical essay that recalls the poet's time working
at the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg in the 1960s. Mentored by
the insouciant inmate S, the speaker receives a schooling in race,
class, and culture, as well as the beginning of an apprenticeship
in poetry. As he and S consult the I Ching, the Book of Changes,
the speaker becomes cognizant of other frequencies, other
identities; poetry, divination, and a synchronous, alternative
reading of life come into focus. On either side of this prose poem
are related poems of excess and witness, of the ransacked places
and of new territories that emerge from the monstrous. Throughout,
these poems inhabit rather than resolve their contradictions, their
utterances held in tension "between the hemispheres of songbirds
and the hemispheres of men."
'Devotion: Guitar': From Tuscaloosa west to Mississippi then north
to Memphis through country as unmusical as I was unloved by the
decorous ardor of the South and the voice of one whose griefs were
Cherokee, absentee, left in the Chevy and secret. She didn't love
my love like Shiva's everywhere and blue and many-handed, some with
knives and some with billet-doux. She wouldn't sacrifice the better
judgment I'd want of her. Like stopped clocks (black hands, white
faces) the geographic cure was true two times a day. All time else
I was wrong and blued like the notes of the guitar, drum,
saxophoned songs I was receiving: a magnet wound around a steel
coil - a Les Paul - the quavers I converted to an electric boil
that simmered into the sweet, fry-oil air. I can be mortified
anywhere, everywhere. In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are
momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are
meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the
chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis
and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal
elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the
body to take an EKG. These poems visit high schools, laundromats,
motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger
and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold
most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're
driving, while riding a bus, while receiving a call, while passing
through an X-ray machine, the personal intersects - sometimes
violently, sometimes tenderly - with the hum and buzz of the
culture. The culture, whether New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or
Philadelphia, past or present, carries the burden of race and
'someone's idea of beauty.' The poems fluctuate between the two
poles of 'lullaby and homicide' before taking a vow to remain on
earth, to look right and left, to wait and to witness.
"The Other Lover" is a collection of bittersweet American love
poems. Writing with jazz-like verbal panache, Bruce Smith reaches
for the paradoxical pulls between sweetness and bitterness. With
carefully crafted rhyming stanzas and unpredictable free verse
rhythms, these poems bristle and pop like the riffs of a virtuoso
horn player. The book is a personal, passionate, disturbing
collection that places the reader both inside and outside of the
poet's life. Deftly filtering personal experiences through
improvisatory structures and a wide range of idioms, Smith
communicates the want, the lack, the desire for what is missing,
the sweetness of absence and pain. The pleasure of "The Other
Lover" is in the imagination's dance in the erotic spaces between
the poet and the reader.
"Our Father, The Prodigal Son Returns" chronicles the life of Bruce
Smith, former pro football star, real estate magnate turned Pastor.
It begins with his growing up in segregated Texas after his
biological father abandons his family. His odyssey takes him from
Huntsville, Texas to Colorado to Canada, but the specter of being
fatherless haunts him well into his forties until a spiritual
awakening changes everything. 'Where I grew up, there were lots of
mothers and grandmothers. They acted as the patriarchs. It wasn't
that lots of men weren't around. There were just very few fathers,
who represented any definition you would find in a dictionary.' "A
Must Read Memoir Exposing the #1 issue Facing Society Today,
Fatherlessless "
Rob Smith's poetry has been described as "accessible" and
"poignant." The relationship between people and their natural
surroundings permeates his work, as does his curiosity for the
uniquely human aspiration of finding meaning through love, work,
and imagination. His poetry has received national recognition. In
2006, he received the Robert Frost Poetry Award from the Frost
Foundation of Lawrence, MA for the best poem written "in the spirit
of Robert Frost." More recently, in 2011, five of his poems were
adapted as lyrics in a series of art songs composed by R. Michael
Daugherty. The poems of the song cycle, "Love's Shades of Gray,"
are included as a section in this volume. The Immigrant's House is
his most complete anthology to date. It includes all of his
previously published poems and many which are shared for the first
time. Each poem tells a life story and explores the mystery and
wonder of what it means to be human.
-Beneath the guise of imaginative fiction, Shrader Marks: Keelhouse
explores the interrelationships of technology and culture,
authority and rule, storytelling and survival. Shrader Marks:
Keelhouse contains the complete two-volume saga which began with
Rob Smith's debut novel, Night Voices. After its release in 2006,
readers who had followed Cathy Pearson, Shrader Marks, and the
flotilla of Great Lakes refugees wanted more. Here is the
continuation of that story, an adventure which follows the exiles
in their new life along the North Atlantic coast. Keelhouse picks
up the narrative five years later as a broken world begins to
reshape itself. In the emerging reality of a world stripped of much
of its technology, the voices which haunted Shrader on the first
voyage seem benign compared with rivaling human incursions. This
double volume contains both an updated Night Voices and the much
anticipated first release of Keelhouse. Readers will not miss any
part of the compelling action.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This cookbook contains a wide variety of my favorite recipes
collected over the last 30 years working as a chef. They come from
the Midwest, New Orleans, Cape Cod, Mass, Florida, California and
the Caribbean. Of the approximately 180 recipes most can be easily
prepared by the novice chef. I created the book for my wife and
culinary students to impress their friends and family at home.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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