Long Island Food

Long Island Food
Author: T.W. Barritt
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625853718

Beyond its crowded highways, Long Island serves up a plentiful, eclectic bounty with a side of history. Enticing appetites from Nassau to Montauk, food writer and Long Island native T.W. Barritt explores how immigrant families built a still thriving agricultural community, producing everything from crunchy pickles and hearty potatoes to succulent Long Island duckling. Experience the rise and fall of Long Island's bustling oyster industry and its reemergence today. And meet the modern-day pioneers--in community agriculture, wine, cheese, fine dining and craft spirits--who are reinventing Long Island's food landscape and shaping a delicious future.

Keep Calm and Log On

Keep Calm and Log On
Author: Gillian "Gus" Andrews
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262538768

How to survive the digital revolution without getting trampled: your guide to online mindfulness, digital self-empowerment, cybersecurity, creepy ads, trustworthy information, and more. Feeling overwhelmed by an avalanche of online content? Anxious about identity theft? Unsettled by the proliferation of fake news? Welcome to the digital revolution. Wait—wasn't the digital revolution supposed to make our lives better? It was going to be fun and put the world at our fingertips. What happened? Keep Calm and Log On is a survival handbook that will help you achieve online mindfulness and overcome online helplessness—the feeling that tech is out of your control—with tips for handling cybersecurity, creepy ads, untrustworthy information, and much more. Taking a cue from the famous World War II morale-boosting slogan (“Keep Calm and Carry On”), Gus Andrews shows us how to adapt the techniques our ancestors used to survive hard times, so we can live our best lives online. She explains why media and technology stress us out, and offers empowering tools for coping. Mindfulness practices can help us stay calm and conserve our attention purposefully. Andrews shares the secret of understanding our own opinions'' “family trees” in order to identify misleading “fake news.” She provides tools for unplugging occasionally, overcoming feelings that we are “bad at technology,” and taking charge of our security and privacy. Andrews explains how social media algorithms keep us from information we need and why “creepy ads” seem to follow us online. Most importantly, she urges us to work to rebuild the trust in our communities that the internet has broken.

Keep Calm Carry On

Keep Calm Carry On
Author: Green The Green Muse Writers Collective
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144010249X

'Keep Calm Carry On' is a collection of (mostly) fiction produced by the Green Muse Writing Collective of Austin, Texas.

Dinking All Day

Dinking All Day
Author: Jamie Miller
Publisher: Castle Point Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2024-11-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1250347106

Eat. Sleep. Pickleball. Repeat. If pickleball is life (and it is), then Dinking All Day is a fun-filled toast to it. Serving a perfect blend of humor, inspiration, and refreshment, this irresistible ode to the game lets you live, breathe, and drink your favorite pastime. Inside you’ll find helpful tips and trivia, hilarious quips and pickler profiles, and, of course, delicious courtside cocktail and mocktail recipes. - Relive the five phases of pickleball passion, from Sideline Skeptic to Drop-Shot Warrior. - Discover pickleball history, pro tips, celebrity players, and jokes only a pickler could love. - Whip up a pitcher of Bainbridge Island Zingers to share with friends, post-game. Celebrate your victories, laugh off your defeats, and revel in the joy of pickleball with Dinking All Day!

Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker
Author: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2003-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553897942

“Robbins’s comic philosophical musings reveal a flamboyant genius.”—People Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.

The Feminist and the Cowboy

The Feminist and the Cowboy
Author: Alisa Valdes
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 110160655X

The bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club returns with an engrossing memoir about how falling in love with a sexy cowboy turned her feminist beliefs upside down. Feminism was a religion in Alisa Valdes’s childhood home. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the place of Barbies and left Valdes impressed with a feminist ideology that guided a prolific writing career—at twenty-two Valdes was named one of the top feminist writers under thirty by the editor of Ms Magazine. Yet despite her professional success, Valdes hit forty-two a single mom and a serial dater of inadequate men in tweed jackets—until she met the Cowboy. A conservative rancher, the Cowboy held the traditional views on gender roles that Valdes was raised to reject. Yet as she falls head-over-spurs for him and their relationship finds harmony, she finds the strength, peace, and happiness that comes from embracing her femininity. From their first date the Cowboy makes her pulse race, and she discovers that “when men… act like men rather than like emasculated boys, you as a woman will find not only great pleasure in submitting to them but also great growth as a person.” Told with plenty of humor and candor, The Feminist and the Cowboy will delight the many readers who made The Pioneer Woman a bestseller—not to mention every woman who dreams of being swept away by a rugged cowboy.

The Pickled Pantry

The Pickled Pantry
Author: Andrea Chesman
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-06-06
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1603428909

Blending your grandmother’s pickling know-how with today’s Internet resources, Andrea Chesman shows you how easy it is to fill your pantry with tasty homemade sauerkraut, Salt-Cured Dilly Beans, and Rosemary Onion Confit. Explaining classic techniques in simple language, guiding you to helpful websites, and making you laugh with humorous stories, Chesman provides inspiration and encouragement for both first-time picklers and dedicated home canners. With tips on pickling everything from apples to zucchini, you’ll enjoy exploring the stunning variety of flavors that can fill a Mason jar.

Plants vs. Zombies Volume 17: Multi-ball-istic

Plants vs. Zombies Volume 17: Multi-ball-istic
Author: Paul Tobin
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1506713076

Will Flora the Sunflower and Neighborville's plant platoon hit a triple-bonus combo or will their efforts ride the outlanes to certain loss? Enjoy this hilariously pinball-primed Plants vs. Zombies tale crafted by series veteran Paul Tobin! Plunge into another battle between plants and zombies as Dr. Zomboss turns the entirety of Neighborville into a giant, fully-functional pinball machine! With bumpers, flippers, and pegs meticulously scattered across town by the zombie pinball wizard himself, Nate, Patrice, and their plant posse must find a way to revert Neighborville to its normal state and halt this uniquely horrifying zombie invasion. With every ball and bumper set against them, will they hit a run of zombie knock-out skill shots--or will the battle go full tilt zombies?! Eisner Award-winning writer Paul Tobin (Bandette, Genius Factor) collaborates with artist Christianne Gillenardo-Goudreau (Plants vs. Zombies: Better Homes and Guardens) for a brand-new Plants vs. Zombies journey!