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Sweet Tea
Black Gay Men of the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive" and offers a window into the ways...
by Nancy R. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Is a woman's writing different from a man's? Many scholars -- and readers -- think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women's novels enact the theories that women theorists have posited. In Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text, Nancy Harrison makes an important contribution...
Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels
A Secular Reading
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction. Here, Geoffrey Rans provides not simply a new reading of the five novels that comprise the series but also a new way of reading them.
Rans analyzes...
by Roy Underhill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.' Through his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop,' and his previous books, Roy has...
Separatism and Subculture
Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Kane explores the role of religious identity in Boston in the years 1900-1920, arguing that Catholicism was a central integrating force among different class and ethnic groups. She traces the effect of changing class status on religious identity and solidarity, and she delineates the social and cultural...
Okra
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Passionate okra lovers crave this bright green, heat-loving vegetable, whether fried, grilled, steamed, roasted, boiled, broiled, pickled, raw, whole, sliced, or julienned. With Okra, Virginia Willis provides "the key that unlocks the door of okra desire" to okra addicts and newcomers to the pod alike.
Topping...
Barbecue
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
John Shelton Reed's Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke. Since colonial times southerners have held barbecues to mark homecomings, reunions, and political campaigns; today barbecue signifies celebration as much as ever. In a lively and amusing style, Reed traces...
Jean Anderson's Preserving Guide
How to Pickle and Preserve, Can and Freeze, Dry and Store Vegetables and Fruits
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
In this classic work, born of the back-to-the-land movement, Jean Anderson teaches you how to enjoy the bounty of your own garden, farmer's markets, and roadside stands--all year round. With Anderson at your side, you'll learn which fruits and vegetables are best for canning, freezing, and pickling...
by Bill Neal
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Southern cooking, the most interesting and complex regional cuisine in America, remains a mystery to many professional cooks and southerners. With a stellar collection of recipes, Neal reveals the background and subtleties of southern foods. He uses imaginative new ways with old standards to make...
Pecans
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Show me a recipe with pecans, and I have to try it." Attributing her own love of this American nut to the state of her birth--Georgia is the nation's leader in growing pecans--and to the happy fact that her mother "hardly made a cookie, candy, or pan of Sunday dressing without them," Kathleen Purvis...
The Best of Southern Food
Selected Essays from Southern Cultures, 2008-2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Nourishment, nostalgia, Native ingredients and global influences. Southern Cultures's debut "best of" collection gets straight to the heart of the matter: food.
For those of us who've debated mayonnaise brand, hushpuppy condiment, or barbecue style—including, in some quarters, whether...
Latin American Street Food
The Best Flavors of Markets, Beaches, and Roadside Stands from Mexico to Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
From tamales to tacos, food on a stick to ceviches, and empanadas to desserts, Sandra A. Gutierrez's Latin American Street Food takes cooks on a tasting tour of the most popular and delicious culinary finds of twenty Latin American countries, including Mexico, Cuba, Peru, and Brazil, translating them...
Tomatoes
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In Tomatoes, Miriam Rubin gives this staple of southern gardens the passionate portrait it deserves, exploring the tomato's rich history in southern culture and inspiring home cooks to fully enjoy these summer fruits in all their glorious variety. Rubin, a prominent food writer and tomato connoisseur,...
Biscuits
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
For fifteen years, food writer Belinda Ellis traveled around the country for the White Lily® flour company, teaching people to make biscuits and listening to their stories. "I learned that deep in the soul of a biscuit, there's more than the flour, fat, and milk. A hot biscuit embodies a memory of...