America's Best Hotels and Restaurants
Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780679001904
America's Best Hotels, Restaurants and Spas
Author : Mobil Travel Guides
Publisher : Mobil Travel Guide
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780841607262
Book Description
Misty of Chincoteague
Author : Marguerite Henry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442487992
Book Description
A Newbery Honor Book Rediscover award-winning author Marguerite Henry’s classic story about a wild horse’s gentle colt with this faux leather–bound anniversary edition. On an island of Chincoteague off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Among them is the most mysterious of all, Phantom, a rarely seen mare that eludes all efforts to capture her—until a young boy and girl lay eyes on her and decide they can’t live without her. The frenzied roundup that follows on the next “Pony Penning Day” does indeed bring Phantom into their lives…in a way they never would have suspected. Phantom will forever be a creature of the wild. But her gentle, loyal colt Misty is another story altogether.
Travel Resources
Author : Stephen Walker
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0810869470
Book Description
Written for the traveler who needs information beyond what is provided in a general guidebook, Travel Resources: An Annotated Guide introduces the reader to comprehensive and specialized travel literature and resources. In this book, author Stephen Walker offers practical and accessible direction for anyone seeking detailed and valuable information on travel, while also instructing readers in ways to find information that may not be included in this guide. Organized by topic, each topic begins with information that is useful to new travelers so that anyone can begin with any topic without any previous knowledge of it. However, the book also goes further so as to provide information useful to the seasoned traveler. The wide variety of topics related to travel provide many new and possibly overlooked opportunities, even for veteran travelers, and the works included have been selected because of the depth with which each treats its subject matter, in order to ensure that each resource is of the quality that today's traveler demands.
America's Best Food Cities
Author : The Washington Post
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2016-04-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1682305414
Book Description
The Washington Post food critic’s guide to the nation’s top ten culinary capitals—plus restaurant recipes you can make in your own kitchen. Follow Tom Sietsema as he dines, drinks and browses at 271 restaurants, bars, and shops while reporting for his America’s Best Food Cities project. Along the way, he measures how each city stacks up in terms of creativity, community, tradition, ingredients, shopping, variety, and service. Sietsema offers a guidebook to his top recommendations, garnished with short descriptions of the eateries he visited, the best things he ordered in each city, and even some signature recipes from notable restaurants along his path, so that you too can make the best dishes without buying a plane ticket. Along the way he dishes out surprises and tips to satisfy the palate of every culinary adventurer. This is the ultimate guide to eating well in America’s top 10 food cities, whether you’re a resident of one of them or planning a visit. Bon appetit!
America's Great Southwest
Author : Laurence A. Cole Ph.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1477299831
Book Description
This book is either a coffee table book or travel guide, using pictures to help you choose your travel destination.
Food in the USA
Author : Carole Counihan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135323593
Book Description
From Thanksgiving to fast food to the Passover seder, Food in the USA brings together the essential readings on these topics and is the only substantial collection of essays on food and culture in the United States. Essay topics include the globalization of U.S. food; the dangers of the meatpacking industry; the rise of Italian-American food; the meaning of Soul food; the anorexia epidemic; the omnipotence of Coca-Cola; and the invention of Thanksgiving. Together, the collection provides a fascinating look at how and why we Americans are what we eat.
Recipes from Historic America
Author : Linda Bauer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cooking, American
ISBN : 9781931721684
Book Description
From a wind-swept beach experience to a magnificent mansion on a wooded hillside to a serene lake setting, the fabric of America has been preserved and is available to diners in some of the best restaurants in America. This book combines stories from the past with recipes and information for visiting or contacting the establishments.
The Hotel Monthly
Author : John Willy
Publisher :
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
ISBN :
Book Description
America's Best Chefs Cook with Jeremiah Tower
Author : Jeremiah Tower
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780471451419
Book Description
Jeremiah Tower, James Beard Award–winning chef and pioneer of American regional cuisine, cooks with a "who′s who" of some of the nation′s top chefs in their home kitchens Companion to the PBS television series, America′s Best Chefs In the early 1970s, Chef Jeremiah Tower′s revolutionary ethos of fresh ingredients, simply prepared and presented, shook up the national culinary scene. The successes that followed are legendary, from his trail–blazing Santa Fe Bar and Grill in Berkeley to the acclaimed Stars restaurant in San Francisco. Now, in this companion to the landmark twenty–six–part PBS series, America′s Best Chefs, Jeremiah Tower visits 13 James Beard Award–winning chefs and cooks with them in their home kitchens. More than 100 recipes, accompanied by full–color photographs, show home cooks how to make the dishes featured on the show as well as a number of Jeremiah′s own creations. The book includes contributions from New York′s Michael Romano (Union Square Cafe) and Alain Ducasse (Ducasse), Los Angeles′ Mark Peel and Nancy Silverton (Campanile and La Brea Bakery), San Francisco′s Nancy Oakes (Boulevard), Chicago′s Charlie Trotter (Charlie Trotter′s) and Gale Gand (Tru), Philadelphia′s Jean–Louis Lacroix (Rittenhouse Hotel), Boston′s Ken Oringer (Clio), Arizona′s Robert McGrath (Roaring Fork in Scottsdale), Wisconsin′s Odessa Piper (L′Etoile in Madison), Alabama′s Frank Stitt (Highlands Bar & Grill in Birmingham), Oregon′s Philippe Boulot (The Heathman Bar and Grill in Portland), and Virginia′s Patrick O′Connell (The Inn at Little Washington). Jeremiah Tower (New York, NY) received the James Beard Foundation′s Outstanding Chef Award in 1996 and is the author of the James Beard Award–winning New American Classics as well as Jeremiah Tower Cooks.
