Having battled an autoimmune disease the modern-medicine way for many years, Danielle Walker took matters into her own hands and set out to regain her health through the medicine of food. After four years of turning her kitchen into a laboratory for revamping her culinary point of view, Danielle mastered the art of grain- and dairy-free cooking--and improved her well-being, virtually eliminating all her ailments.
A self-trained chef, Danielle is the new face of grain-free cooking, tempting foodies of all stripes with her accessible recipes for vibrant Paleo food. Paying homage to the dishes she loved in her pre-Paleo life, she has ingeniously recreated all her favorites without grains or dairy in her first cookbook.
Complementing her innovative recipes with elegant photography, Danielle takes you on a culinary Paleo journey that includes everything from quick breakfasts to sinful desserts, with a long list of hearty entrees in-between. And because Danielle knows she's not the only one with a finicky toddler at home, she has included a special section filled with healthy recipes that kids will be eager to eat and moms will be just as eager to serve.
These recipes are sure to leave you feeling satisfied and exhilarated, rather than discouraged and deprived. Danielle proves that omitting grains, gluten, dairy, and refined sugar doesn't correlate with sacrificing taste; in fact, just the opposite. This book will show you that you can go against the grain in the culinary world and enter a paradise of gourmet foods with exciting flavors.

Beloved food blogger and "New York Times" bestselling author Danielle Walker is back with over 100 new Paleo recipes in her sophomore cookbook, "Meals Made Simple"--a collection of gluten-free, dairy-free, and Paleo-friendly recipes for easy weeknight meals.
Diagnosed with an autoimmune disease at twenty-two, Danielle Walker spent many years in and out of the hospital and on high dosages of debilitating medications before taking her health into her own hands and drastically changing her diet. In a true lemons-to-lemonade story, Danielle transformed her adversities into opportunities and created her wildly successful blog, "Against All Grain," in an effort to help those in need eat well and feel great, without feeling deprived.
With recipes that make cooking for the grain-free family both easy and enjoyable, "Meals Made Simple "answers the age-old question: "What's for dinner?" Danielle takes the guesswork out of meal planning with a full month's worth of dinner ideas, complete with recipes for using up leftovers and full shopping lists.
Whether we're moms, students, or business owners, we all want fresh, home-cooked meals that are easy to prepare at the end of the day. And we want lots of choices and variety. Preparing real foods can be time-consuming and monotonous. Danielle brings simplicity and creativity to the everyday meal with an enthusiasm for flavors and textures that can often be lacking in easy weeknight meals. "Meals Made Simple "includes a variety of slow-cooker, one-pot, and thirty-minute meals, as well as ways to create entirely new dishes from leftovers. As in her critically acclaimed first cookbook, "Against All Grain ," Danielle offers special "tidbits" to help ensure your meal turns out picture-perfect. The vibrant flavors and colors in dishes like Slow Cooked Pork Ragu, Beef Stroganoff, Peruvian-Style Chicken, and Summer Shrimp Rolls add delight to any meal and end all those nights of mundane grilled chicken and broccoli. Even the desserts are quick to make, should a craving or last-minute kid's celebration arise.
Features include
- More than 100 new gluten-free, dairy-free, and Paleo-friendly recipes with full -color photos
- 30 days' worth of dinner ideas to make meal planning easy
- Complete shopping lists for fast and effortless trips to the grocery store that minimize waste
- Suggestions and recipes for using leftovers to save you time and money
- Slow-cooker, one-pot, and 30-minute recipes for fast and easy dinners
- Make ahead and freezer options
- Time saving tips for getting dinner on the table quickly

From the two-time New York Times best-selling author of Against All Grain and Meals Made Simple, comes 125 recipes for grain-free, dairy-free, gluten-free comfort food dishes for holidays and special occasions.

When people adopt a new diet for health or personal reasons, they worry most about the parties, holidays, and events with strong food traditions, fearing their fond memories will be lost along with the newly eliminated food groups. After suffering for years with a debilitating autoimmune disease and missing many of these special occasions herself, Danielle Walker has revived the joy that cooking for holidays can bring in Danielle Walker's Against All Grain Celebrations, a collection of recipes and menus for twelve special occasions throughout the year.

Featuring a variety of birthday cakes, finger foods to serve at a baby or bridal shower, and re-creations of backyard barbecue standards like peach cobbler and corn bread, Danielle includes all of the classics. There’s a full Thanksgiving spread--complete with turkey and stuffing, creamy green bean casserole, and pies--and menus for Christmas dinner; a New Year's Eve cocktail party and Easter brunch are covered, along with suggestions for beverages and cocktails and the all-important desserts. Recipes can be mixed and matched among the various occasions, and many of the dishes are simple enough for everyday cooking. Stunning full-color photographs of every dish make browsing the pages as delightful as cooking the recipes, and beautiful party images provide approachable and creative entertaining ideas.

Making recipes using unfamiliar ingredients can cause anxiety, and while trying a new menu on a regular weeknight leaves some room for error, the meal simply cannot fail when you have a table full of guests celebrating a special occasion. Danielle has transformed her most cherished family traditions into trustworthy recipes you can feel confident serving, whether you’re hosting a special guest with food allergies, or cooking for a crowd of regular grain-eaters.

Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history.
One of the most precious liberties Americans have always cherished is the ability to "make something of themselves"--to choose not only an occupation but an identity. Examining works by Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and others, Howe investigates how Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the process of "self-construction," "self-improvement," and the "pursuit of happiness." He explores as well how Americans understood individual identity in relation to the larger body politic, and argues that the conscious construction of the autonomous self was in fact essential to American democracy--that it both shaped and was in turn shaped by American democratic institutions. "The thinkers described in this book," Howe writes, "believed that, to the extent individuals exercised self-control, they were making free institutions--liberal, republican, and democratic--possible." And as the scope of American democracy widened so too did the practice of self-construction, moving beyond the preserve of elite white males to potentially all Americans. Howe concludes that the time has come to ground our democracy once again in habits of personal responsibility, civility, and self-discipline esteemed by some of America's most important thinkers.
Erudite, beautifully written, and more pertinent than ever as we enter a new era of individual and governmental responsibility, Making the American Self illuminates an impulse at the very heart of the American experience.

An unbreakable bond, that was created instantly between two friends, Can it withstand the test of time, or will it crumble under pressure? As Shelly attempts to make a name for herself in the fashion industry, will Jasmine allow her underlying jealously interfere Or will she support her lifelong friend? When loyalty has no limits, can these two best friends keep their Sisterhood intact, or will this create a Lifelong enemy..........

Joseph and Catherine Walker of Hereford had five children who left numerous descendants in Baltimore County, Md., York County, Pa., Hamilton and Butler Counties, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere. Numerous allied families include Boswell, Cameron, Curtis, Foster, Gorsuch, Hammitt, LeSourd, Perdue, Wilson and Young. Of special interest are the numerous paper mills and grist mills operated by these families. Noted authors, Shakesperian actors, western pioneers, Civil War soldiers and Nobel lauriates are among these families.

Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a temporary coalition of politicians but spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the Whigs' Republican successors. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.