The "gill to adipose fin" trend means buying fish whole and using the entire animal. Make fish head soup, broil the collars, brine the eggs, bake the skins for "fish bacon" dry the bones and grind them into a "salt" or smoke them for stock. Learn to love sardines, mackerel and herring for all their wonderful oiliness. You'll get mega doses of omega 3's, serotonin highs, increased stamina and all sorts of other benefits to ramp up your sex life and vastly improve your health. Research has shown that experiencing new things triggers the chemicals, dopamine and norepinephrine - the same ones released when you're newly in love. So make this as simple as an adventurous dinner.
The ocean is a complex web, from phytoplankton to orcas, so let's make dinner choices according to the cycles of nature and the marvels of life schooling in our oceans and feel it connect with our own primal pulses. At these intersections with nature, we taste the world around us in new, unexpected ways and cultivate our creativity. We realize that community is not just with our friends and families, but all life on earth. This is passion and there's no greater aphrodisiac. The recipes included here are from some of the best chefs in the business; they will guide you on this voyage through the heads, hearts and bellies of fish. (TED Books 2012)
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The ocean is a complex web, from phytoplankton to orcas, so let's make dinner choices according to the cycles of nature and the marvels of life schooling in our oceans and feel it connect with our own primal pulses. At these intersections with nature, we taste the world around us in new, unexpected ways and cultivate our creativity. We realize that community is not just with our friends and families, but all life on earth. This is passion and there's no greater aphrodisiac. The recipes included here are from some of the best chefs in the business; they will guide you on this voyage through the heads, hearts and bellies of fish. (TED Books 2012)
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Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home is the tale of surviving a broken heart. Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with style and flair, take risks, and sort out what it is you really want. As Maria's world begins to revolve around the friendships she makes in dance class and the milongas (social dances) she attends regularly in New York City, we discover with her the fascinating culture, history, music, moves, and beauty of the Argentine tango. With each new dance step she learnsóthe embrace, the walk, the sweep, the exitóshe is one step closer to returning to the world of the living. Eventually Maria travels to Buenos Aires, the birthplace of tango, and finds the confidence to try romance again. (Algonquin Books, 2010) Also published by in Italy and Arena in Holland. Optioned for a television series by Fox Studios.
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A Little Piece of Earth is all about starting small, with more than fifty self-contained, doable projects. Whether you have a yard, a terrace, a rooftop, or just a windowsill, there are plenty of ideas and inspirations to choose from. Harvest your own precious vanilla pods from a pot indoors. Grow savory shiitakes on a small log in your kitchen. Build a miniature vineyard trellis on your deck or build a raised bed on your patio. Recipes for using your homegrown bounty are sprinkled throughout. Charming illustrations guide you through step-by-step, and there's a complete resources section. This is about making dirt work for you, taking some control over your food supply, and, most important, enriching your life with the quiet, simple pleasures of produce raised organically with your own hands. (Rizzoli, 2010) Also published in Korea and Portugal.
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MEXICO IN MIND
Ranging from 1843 to present, Mexico in Mind offers a remarkably varied sampling of English speaking writers' impressions of the land south of the border. John Reed rides with Pancho Villa in 1914; Graham Greene defends Mexico's priests; Langston Hughes describes a bullfight; Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs are literally intoxicated by Mexico. Alice Adams visits Frida Kahlo's house; Ann Louise Bardach meets the mysterious Subcommandante Marcos face-to-face.
Fictional accounts are equally vivid, with short stories by Katherine Anne Porter and Ray Bradbury, and excerpts from John Steinbeck's The Pearl, Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguanas, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Poets weigh in as well, from Muriel Rukeyser and Archibald MacLeish to Sandra Cisneros. From the bustle of Mexico City to coffee plantations in remote Chiapas, from Mayan ruins to the markets at Oaxaca, the scenes evoked in this anthology reflect the rich variety of the place and its history, sure to enchant vacationers, expatriates, and armchair travelers everywhere.
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Ranging from 1843 to present, Mexico in Mind offers a remarkably varied sampling of English speaking writers' impressions of the land south of the border. John Reed rides with Pancho Villa in 1914; Graham Greene defends Mexico's priests; Langston Hughes describes a bullfight; Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs are literally intoxicated by Mexico. Alice Adams visits Frida Kahlo's house; Ann Louise Bardach meets the mysterious Subcommandante Marcos face-to-face.
Fictional accounts are equally vivid, with short stories by Katherine Anne Porter and Ray Bradbury, and excerpts from John Steinbeck's The Pearl, Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguanas, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Poets weigh in as well, from Muriel Rukeyser and Archibald MacLeish to Sandra Cisneros. From the bustle of Mexico City to coffee plantations in remote Chiapas, from Mayan ruins to the markets at Oaxaca, the scenes evoked in this anthology reflect the rich variety of the place and its history, sure to enchant vacationers, expatriates, and armchair travelers everywhere.
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Cuba in Mind
Since Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen,” few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer ample proof of the fascinations that have lured generations of travelers.
In this richly varied anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we hear from such famous visitors as Anthony Trollope, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, and Graham Greene. Poets and journalists offer their responses, from Allen Ginsberg and Jayne Cortez to Alma Guillermoprieto and Robert Stone; and novelists weigh in with such fictional portrayals as Elmore Leonard’s Cuba Libre and Pico Iyer’s Cuba and the Night. Cuban exiles, immigrants, and their offspring provide their unique perspective, from Cristina García’s essay “Simple Life” to excerpts from Oscar Hijuelos’s novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and from Carlos Eire’s memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana. Embracing salsa and santeria, politics and baseball, the island’s sparkling beaches and the teeming Havana streets, Cuba in Mind captures the vibrancy, the contradictions, the heat and the humor of Cuba as shown by some of the best writers in the English language.
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