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Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
In an authorized biography-the story of Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine" Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country, and goat cheese and mesclun lettuce were virtually unheard of. Most people had no idea what "organic" food was, and even fewer thought about "sustainable farming." But in 1971, in a corner of Berkeley, California, a young Francophile named Alice Waters opened a small counterculture restaurant for her friends called Chez Panisse and launched an entirely new way of thinking about and serving food in America. Without an ounce of business sense or financial discipline, Alice relied on the coterie of devoted friends and followers who developed around her and on her strong principles of, among other things, using only locally grown and organic ingredients at the peak of their seasons, to keep her restaurant afloat. It was a reckless, extravagant, inexperienced venture that would have failed at any other time and place, but that instead-somehow-turned into a food revolution. Today, Alice Waters may be the most important figure in the culinary history of North America. Chez Panisse revolutionized what it means to eat out and gave birth to a new nationwide cuisine-the first in this country not associated with a single region or ethnic group, the first "American" cuisine. Gourmet's 2002 appraisal ranked Chez Panisse as the best restaurant in America, and The New York Times has called Alice "the mother of American cooking." Alice has become a public figure, revered and idolized by many. The first "foodie," she has become a famous chef, activist, advocate, and spokeswoman whose personal beliefs have become the values of an entire food movement. But her complex personal character is hardly known at all. Thomas McNamee was selected by Alice to document her story and was given exclusive access to her and her closest friends, to the Chez Panisse archives, and to private collections and memorabilia. As the story unfolds over the decades, we learn of her many passionate loves, her marriage, her divorce, the birth of her daughter Fanny, her failures, her critics. We come to know the extraordinary cast of characters who have formed the ever-shifting Chez Panisse community-a make-shift family with complex relationships, competing interests, and a strange, almost cultish, devotion to each other and to their work..
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The Secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo: Their Success and Why the Process Ultimately Failed (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series)
The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to the mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel. Through an in-depth examination of the Oslo negotiations, this book argues that at the core of the negotiations was a fascinating dilemma of recognition. Overcoming this dilemma was at the centre of the secret negotiations. A thorough analysis documents how decision makers tried to communicate without being able to engage in face-to-face negotiations, and highlights the significance of the role of third parties in the conflict resolution process, stressing in particular the importance of the European Union’s power in bringing the sides together. This is a comprehensive account of the Oslo negotiations, focusing particularly on the timely issue of non-recognition – which is of great importance today given the recent emergence of the rise of Hamas as the dominant Palestinian political force. .
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Ultimately Fiction: Design in Modern American Literary Biography
During the past 25 years, a tremendous boom has occurred in the publishing of biographies, especially literary biographies—that is, lives of creative writers. Yet, according to this critical study, literary biographers have most often focused their efforts merely upon presenting historical facts while being generally unaware of artistic possibilities in the subgenre. Criticism of biography frequently quotes Desmond MacCarthy's dictum that the biographer is "an artist who is on oath." Undoubtedly, every biographer must be "on oath" not to deny or change the "truth" of historical facts. But the literary biographer who aspires to be an "artist" must include in his or her biographical design aesthetic truth as well. And good biography, like good fiction, is shaped by that individual point of view which alone may make it art. Through an analysis of Steven Millhauser's satiric novel/biography, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, Petrie outlines a technique for judging specifically literary biographies as aesthetic objects—works revealing purpose, structure, and style. He then applies this technique in extensive discussions of three types of literary biography; illustrated here primarily by works about four modern American novelists; Joseph Blotner's Faulkner, Andrew Turnbull's Scott Fitzerald, W. A. Swanberg's Dreiser, and Leon Edel's Henry James. .
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Ultimately Under
Read this today, put people into trances in your performances tomorrowKenton's new Ultimately Under does for hypnosis what Completely Cold has done for telephone psychics.Literally overnight you will get spectators to close their eyes, levitate their arm, see imaginary balloons and all manner of things - without stooges, hypnosis, or tons of practice.Spectator's hands get stuck to a table, they cannot move from a spot on the floor, their fingers seem glued together and more.No memorizing special hypnotic scripts or fancy words.No funny props required, though you may want to use your cell phone or make up a thing or two.Most of the effects can be performed up close, in a living room or on stage.Unlike what all the others teach you, Kenton tips how mentalists and magicians can use trance work TODAY without worry or failure.Forget being taught how to be a clinical therapist or stage hypnotist when all you really want to do is apparently put people under INSTANTLY while doing your usual effects.You learn how to do all of this and more right away. This work is for MAGICIANS AND MENTALISTS BY a renown MAGICIAN and MENTALIST. You don't need to be an expert in hypnosis when all you really want to do is show how you put people into a trance instantly.No dangerous methods, no difficult work.Read it today, perform trance effects with ease and complete confidence tomorrow!No worries, and no fear required.Pages 94 - Tape Bound.
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Hardy boy grows into team player: ultimately, self-insurance would prove to be successful and would imbue Joe Hardy, director of risk management and insurance ... partners.: An article from: Risk & Insurance
This digital document is an article from Risk & Insurance, published by Axon Group on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1143 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Hardy boy grows into team player: ultimately, self-insurance would prove to be successful and would imbue Joe Hardy, director of risk management and insurance of Hudson's Bay Co., with the importance of working with strong partners. Author: David Kosub Publication:Risk & Insurance (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 1, 2004 Publisher: Axon Group Volume: 15 Issue: 3 Page: 35(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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