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Fannies Last Supper
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Christopher Kimball
Acemoose
, January 02, 2011
Fannie's Last Supper, by the irreverent and saucy chef, Christopher Kimball, is a visual and gustatory delight. Based on serious research on Victorian era tastes, manners and the pecking order, the book is anything BUT serious. Even the most squeamish reader will not find it easy to get through the passages about late-night encounters with "dancing" segmented lobsters, eyeballs, gaping grins, and feet bouncing up and down in stockpots without laughing -- thankfully, the rest of the book is more "digestible". Covering the life of Fannie Farmer, her cookery, inventive recipes, their shortfalls and all, covered up with French(or French-sounding) names, Chris Kimball does a supreme job of not only re-creating these recipes to create an unforgettable banquet, but does so using ingredients AND cookery available in Fannie's era (such as a coal-fired stove converted to wood fuel) without giving much of a nod at all to modern day devices. Aided by sous-chefs, Uber-chefs, and various dedicated assistants, the result of his research and hard-work play out into an unforgettable night of dining, all the while keeping time with the limits allowed for proper dining back in the late 19th, early 20th century. The narrative kept me spell-bound, and the climax -- the unfolding scenario of the actual night of the banquet and the red hot stove, are not to be missed. The photographs do this book justice. The Bibliography is exquisite and irresistible, like the banquet itself. Recipes (and websites for other recipes) abound, for brain balls, fried artichokes and other goodies as well as for the main course(S) and desserts. Bravo Christhoper Kimball! Bravo,Fannie Farmer!
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Sex Wars
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Marge Piercy
Acemoose
, July 10, 2007
The title almost turned me off, but once I started reading -- I discovered an EXCEPTIONAL book about women trying to make it on their own in Post- Civil War New York City, a time of enormous changes and yet appalling filth and poverty as immigrants filled the dilapidated buildings and tried to make a living in their new country, contrasted with the excessive wealth of those who raced their horses through Central park, ate in fancy restaurants and inhabited their posh mansions on the other side of the city. This book, part historical and part fiction, depicts the actions, triumphs and tragedies of the female characters as they try to gain control of their bodies and their future as citizens, while the monstrous intervention by the Anti-Porno crusader, Anthony Comstock sends many of those women to jail in the rotting dungeon known as the Tombs, for the "crime" of promoting birth control by lecturing or distributing pamphlets, or manufacturing condoms. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony figure prominently as agents for change -- speaking for and marching for Women's Suffrage, as they try to reform voting laws and draft the Equal Rights Amendment. Their personalities are very well developed and the reader is treated to some wonderful dialogue between the two and their female (and male) following. Although this novel revolves around the women, men certainly play a part in it -- as catalysts -- effecting action on the part of the women by supporting them, or challenging them by boredom or betrayal, or as cads or criminals. Victoria Woodhull (who advocates free love and runs for president of the US on the Equal Rights platform, even though women could not yet vote)and her sister Tennie (and their embarrassing and quirky family, which they try to keep in the backgoround), hobnob with Cornelius Vanderbilt and eventually become successful women stockbrokers, with an impressive following and their own newsletter -- and several unfortunate run-ins with Anthony Comstock. Victoria also joins forces with the Suffragettes, despite many of them being scandalized by her many Free-Love affairs. Woven through this fact-based novel, a fictitious but very believable character, Freydeh, searches for her sister, helps bring up street orphans despite her own impoverished circumstances, and in her own run-in with Comstock, shows an incredibly brave and resourceful attitude in the face of poverty and tragedy. The gritty and seamy side of late 19th century NY City (the knackers picking up dead animals on the streets, the gang wars, the filth and pollution) as well as the posh, Fifth Avenue mansions, call girls and wealthy socialites who inhabit them are both described vividly. The reader may well wonder "How did the poor survive in such horrible circumstances?!" Not many pictures, but in a book that so vividly describes that era and keeps the reader imersed in the narrative, not many pictures are really needed.
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Cats 24 7
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Cohen Smolan
Acemoose
, July 02, 2007
Big Bad Baby Twinkle and Cee Cee perused this Kitty Kompendium of awesome photos and both said "Ack!! Ack!!", giving it an EIGHT paw salute!! I DID give them some catnip before I showed them this Calendar, but only to enhance their enjoyment.
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