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Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and poignant—and the recipes that helped to make them both indelible and irreplaceable.
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1382) Peanut
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Nervous about starting her sophomore year at a new high school, Sadie decides to make herself more interesting by claiming to be allergic to peanuts, but her lie quickly spirals out of control.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This work presents the results of a monumental study of diet and death rates from cancer in more than 6,500 adults across China and Taiwan and explains the study's significance and what it reveals about the implications of poor nutrition. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Mark Schatzker shows how the approach to the nation's number one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are not tied to the overabundance of fat or carbs. Instead, people have been led astray by the growing divide between flavor, the tastes they crave, and the underlying nutrition.
1385) In defense of food
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Examines eating habits in light of contemporary trends toward ultra diet-concsiousness. Presents arguments for more tradition- and ecology-based approaches to eating rather than regarding foods in more scientific or clinical terms.
1386) I hate borsch!
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
All Ukrainians are supposed to love borsch--but what if you hate the red stuff? A young girl despises Eastern Europe's most beloved soup, and not even the grandmothers of Kiev can persuade her to change her mind. But when she immigrates to the United States, American food leaves her feeling empty. One day she discovers borsch recipes in an old suitcase. Maybe that disgusting beet soup deserves another chance ... Imaginatively illustrated with splashes...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
""Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Chocolat: A single mother and her daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop just before Lent across the street from the local church in a rigidly moral community.
Like Water for Chocolate: Tita and Pedro are in love, but cannot marry because of a family tradition. To be near Tita, Pedro marries her sister and Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion through preparing delectable dishes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Pinkalicious: A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
Silverlicious: When Pinkalicious loses her sweet tooth she turns to the Tooth Fairy for help.
Goldilicious: Pinkalicious and her brother play with her imaginary gold-horned unicorn that can float on water, fly, and turn herself into a fairy princess.
Purplicious: When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink,...
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