America's Hometown Favorites

America's Hometown Favorites
Author: Better Homes and Gardens
Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens Books
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2002
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780696214592

The best in community cooking from coast to coast.

America's Favorite Holidays

America's Favorite Holidays
Author: Bruce David Forbes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520284712

"America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally dominant holidays--Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving--came to be what they are today, combinations of seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals the often surprising history behind the traditions of each holiday. The book offers a comprehensive look at the Christian origins of these holidays and also touches on Passover, the religions of ancient Rome, Celtic practices, Mexico's Day of the Dead, and American civil religion. America's Favorite Holidays answers our curiosity about the origins of our holidays and the many ways in which religion and culture mix"--Provided by publisher.

Hometown Favorite

Hometown Favorite
Author: Bill Barton
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0800732863

Dewayne Jobe had it all-- football career, a beautiful family, and white picket fence to boot. But catastrophe looms. Will Dewayne's faith and character stand the test of tragedy?

Food Editors' Hometown Favorites Cookbook

Food Editors' Hometown Favorites Cookbook
Author: Barbara Gibbs Ostmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1984
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780843733983

This book contains the favorite regional and local recipes from over sixty leading food experts.

The Lost Continent

The Lost Continent
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0385674562

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

American Shero

American Shero
Author: Courtney Long
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1622879090

When it comes to relationships, there exist four states: you're either trying to get in one, out of one, maintain one, or get over one. Brooklynite, Zay Shero Harrison is stuck in the state of trying to get over one. Her three girlfriends hold down the other three. AMERICAN SHERO is next wave feminism, humor, politically incorrect, and an honest look at the current state of young love in America. SHERO is the face of what it looks like, feels like, and acts like, as well as the heroic stance one assumes when daring to undertake, or even avoid such relations. Highly imaginative, with ingenious "How To" self-help manuals built into its narrative, AMERICAN SHERO is one very fresh, original, edgy, cinematic, spiritual, and definitely unprecedented body of work. Keywords: Edgy, Loving, Friendship, Heroic, Commitment, Feminist, Sarcastic, Humorous, Political, Spiritual.

The Taste of American Place

The Taste of American Place
Author: Barbara G. Shortridge
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 309
Release: 1999-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461645786

Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors have selected a group of engaging essays to help students explore the idea of food as a window into American culture. The editors' general introductory essay offers an overview of current scholarship, and part introductions contextualize the readings within each section. This lively reader will be a valuable supplement for courses on American culture across the social sciences.

American Cowboy

American Cowboy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2002-03
Genre:
ISBN:

Published for devotees of the cowboy and the West, American Cowboy covers all aspects of the Western lifestyle, delivering the best in entertainment, personalities, travel, rodeo action, human interest, art, poetry, fashion, food, horsemanship, history, and every other facet of Western culture. With stunning photography and you-are-there reportage, American Cowboy immerses readers in the cowboy life and the magic that is the great American West.

Our Towns

Our Towns
Author: James Fallows
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1101871857

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.