Three Courses and a Dessert


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.




After a Meal Like This, You Don’T Need Dessert!


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Happy days are here again was President Roosevelts slogan in 1932 to quell the effects of the Great Depression. Meanwhile, half of western Oklahoma was blowing away in the Dust Bowl winds, resulting in hundreds moving west to find jobs. A few years after that, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and we were at war with Japan and Germany. This is the setting on a small farm in northeastern Oklahoma in which a young boy with three older brothers and a younger sister must grow into adulthood. It was a good but tough life. A father becoming an invalid with Mom becoming the breadwinner made it tougher. We were poor but we didnt know it was a common thought in later years. Everybody was in the same boat. Let these storiessome amusing, some sadtake you back to those times in the last century.




The Hunting Business


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There’s No Business Like The Hunting Business The Hunting Business is a deep dive look at the business-side of hunting. This is not a typical hunting adventure book, but through his thirty-six years of full-time experience in the hunting industry, Greg Simons weaves plenty of interesting, anecdotal information throughout the pages of this seminal work, making this an enjoyable and interesting read about a business that stirs the imagination of many. Topics include basic business principles, peculiar features of this business, risk management, marketing, harvest photography, taxidermy and meat considerations, customer service strategies, lodging and culinary recommendations, and many other key components of building a successful hunting business. Simons also provides an honest introspection on conservation dilemmas, public perceptions, the need to play the advocacy game more intelligently, and the role that NGOs play in the space of conservation and hunting. The final chapter takes a hard look at the future of hunting and Simons shares some candid concerns, while also identifying some encouraging signs that provide hope for tomorrow’s generation of stakeholders. There’s plenty of valuable information built into the pages of The Hunting Business that can be applied to non-hunting related businesses and can also be applied to various challenges that everyone faces throughout life’s journeys. Hunters, outfitters, private landowners, wildlife biologists, nature lovers, volunteers, entrepreneurs, environmental activists, college professors, and college students will all find The Hunting Business to be a great read and useful resource.




The Perfect Finish: Special Desserts for Every Occasion


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The acclaimed pastry chef’s long-awaited collection of stunning-to-behold yet simple-to-make desserts for every occasion. Most of us don’t have the time to make dessert, and when we do, it is for holidays, birthdays, or a special brunch. Here, selected from his personal repertoire of five thousand recipes, are the eighty best desserts Bill Yosses has ever made, each tailored to our contemporary lives. The Perfect Finish is playfully organized by occasion: “I’ll Bring Dessert” features recipes easy to pack for potlucks; “Straight from the Oven” includes fruit pies best served warm; and “Pick-Me-Ups” spotlights brownies and chocolate chip cookies that will brighten your day. For the adventurous, Bill groups his guaranteed-to-impress desserts—including his signature warm vanilla cake—in a chapter inspired from his days in one of Manhattan’s finest restaurants, Bouley. Bill also demonstrates technique and unfamiliar ingredients and explains how to store and transport desserts. This is a book for every taste and every experience level, with color pictures of nearly all the beautiful finished desserts.




Paleo Recipes: 45 Delicious Dump Cake, Jar Recipes & More


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Imagine the following scene. You come home from work and your kids are already waiting for you screaming for some scrumptious and tantalizing treats. You think what can I do to satisfy them. You then somehow succeed to transform some healthy ingredients that you just bought in the supermarket into a nice healthy and wholesome meal because that is what a supermom does. You are pretty proud of your supermom skills because you manage to cook a nutritious meal with vegetables and healthy ingredients that your kids actually like. What's next you ask? Glad you anticipated this question because what happens next is the following scene. Your kids are all excited and chatty and next thing you know you hear them screaming: "What's for dessert mom?" What do you do know? Modern society is asking us moms to morph into supermoms and to handle our stressful existence at the same time without complaining and without getting upset. In addition to the complexities of the modern world we have to raise our children while making sure that everything runs properly at home and nobody gets sick. Paleo dessert recipes are the guilt free solution to all the sick making varieties from the store and best of all the recipes are deliciously scrumptious, quick & easy to make so that even the busiest person can do this. Here is an excerpt of the recipes that are waiting for you inside: * Paleo Marzipan & Berry Muffins With Coconut Whipped Cream * Macadamia, White Chocolate & Raspberry Muffins * The Ultimate Paleo Cocoholic's Muffins * 3 Minute Paleo Mug Cake * Flourless Paleo Choc Muffins With Peanut Butter Cream Frosting * Lemon Coconut Macadamia Muffins * Scrumptious No Bake Paleo Cakes * Paleo Avocado Coconut Chocolate Mousse * Raw Dark Chocolate & Coconut Mousse With Coconut Milk Whipped Cream With Berries à La Paleo * Scrumptious Cake Batter Paleo Smoothie * Gooey Paleo Ferrero Mousse ... and lots more




Apaches of the Dessert


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In this book Javier Ortega Urquidi, a native of Camargo, Chihuahua, portrays the history of a racial group which played an important part in the formation of the strong character of the men of northem Mexico. Employing impressive investigation and masterful sensitivity, the author, without following a rigorous order, transports us to the heart of Apache life in the Chihuahua desert. The lives of Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Vitorio, Ju and Geronimo will be an authentic discovery for the most exacting reader. The thematic variety, the stylistic elegance and the poetic language employed in this essay of ideas, meditations and reflections about Apache life, accompanied by an important accumulation of historic notes, take us on a journey in time. Without departing from fact, the author moves between the poetic and the didactic. Both questions and anecdotes are considered in this book, through the wide-ranging freedom of theauthor´s style as he reviews the similarities and the differences that are found in various sources.




Monkey Hunting


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In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is García’s hallmark, Monkey Hunting is an emotionally resonant tale of immigration, assimilation, and the prevailing integrity of self.




Fox-hunting


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