Readers will also find the essential collection of core butter recipes, including beurre manié, croissants, pâte brisée, and the only buttercream frosting anyone will ever need, as well as practical how-tos for making various types of butter at home-or shopping for the best. With tales about the ancient butter bogs of Ireland, the pleasure dairies of France, and the sacred butter sculptures of Tibet, Khosrova details butter's role in history, politics, economics, nutrition, and even spirituality and art. Here, it finally gets its due.Īfter traveling across three continents to stalk the modern story of butter, award-winning food writer and former pastry chef Elaine Khosrova serves up a story as rich, textured, and culturally relevant as butter itself.įrom its humble agrarian origins to its present-day artisanal glory, butter has a fascinating story to tell, and Khosrova is the perfect person to tell it. Ubiquitous in the world's most fabulous cuisines, butter is boss. It's a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock star. "Edifying from every point of view-historical, cultural, and culinary." -David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes
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Monstress has steampunk vibes & artwork that jump off the pages & demand that you take note of all the intricate details of each page. I patiently awaited the 1st volume only to see that Netgalley had it listed & I went for it (already ordered a physical copy from Amazon). I first caught wind of Monstress on, the exact article I read listed this graphic novel as the best of 2016 so far & Panels has never steered me wrongīesides the fact that the cover is S-T-U-N-N-I-N-G!!! I immediately noticed our POC (aka people of color) female protagonist & knew that I had to read this one but at the time there were only single issues. I’d like to thank Image Comics for approving me to receive an eGalley of the graphic novel Monstress Volume 1 via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Monstress Volume 1 (collects issues #1-6) Wouk adapted a section of the “Caine Mutiny” novel into a stage play called “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” which first played Broadway in a 1954 production directed by Charles Laughton and starring Lloyd Nolan, Henry Fonda and John Hodiak. (He also had an uncredited role in “The Winds of War” as the Archbishop of Siena.)īoth minis, which aired in 19-89, respectively, drew multiple Emmy nominations and won several, with “War and Remembrance” nabbing best miniseries. Wouk penned the adapted teleplays himself. These expansive works, which followed one character, Navy Commander Victor “Pug” Henry, through seemingly every important moment in WWII, were adapted into the highly successful ABC miniseries of the same name. Wouk relied upon his wartime experiences not only for “The Caine Mutiny,” but for his later novels “The Winds of War” (1971) and “War and Remembrance” (1978). That pic, directed by Edward Dmytryk and also starring Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, drew seven Oscar nominations, including those for best picture and screenplay for Stanley Roberts. “The Caine Mutiny,” a 1951 bestseller that won Wouk the Pulitzer Prize, was memorably adapted into the 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart, who played the paranoid, mentally unstable captain of a Navy minesweeper whose actions drive his subordinates to mutiny. Herman Wouk, the author of novels adapted to the big and small screen, including “ The Caine Mutiny,” “Marjorie Morningstar,” “ The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance,” has died. Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth-the opium trade is still booming. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China. Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. Sansom’s Dominion, a ‘what if’ novel along the lines of Philip K. We are, of course, in past futures, a foreign country which did things differently we are in the country of C. There are those who want to end the hopeless war in the east there are those, chiefly in the SS, who want to carry on the struggle against the Slav ‘sub-humans’ until that elusive final victory. The future is uncertain, with no clear succession. In Berlin, Hitler, suffering from increasingly acute Parkinson’s disease, is nearing the end. Under the Treaty of Berlin, which ended the western war, the Isle of Wight has been turned over to Germany as a base. Enoch Powell is Secretary of State for India, where Britain is still fighting a rearguard action to retain the Jewel in the tawdry Crown. Oswald Mosley, whose fascist party made substantial gains in the rigged parliamentary election of 1950, is Home Secretary, in charge of the normal police and black-shirt recruited auxiliaries. In the west Britain, having made peace with Germany after the brief war of 1939-40, is governed by a crypto-fascist regime headed by Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, the press magnate. On a line roughly extending from Lake Ladoga in the north-west to the Caspian Sea in the south-east, the struggle is in stalemate, a contest punctuated by blows and counter blows which settle nothing. In the east the German war with Russia, now eleven years old, shows no sign of ending. "Welcome back sailors, I recognise a few of you from last year!" commented Max Fernandez. President of Antigua Sailing Week, Alison Sly-Adams welcomed the Minister of Tourism, Charles 'Max' Fernandez to the stage, who gave a warm welcome to the entourage. Pauls, Minister EP Chet Greene, Phillip Shoul - Chairman of the National Parks Authority, and Mrs Ann Marie Martin - Commissioner of the National Parks. Guests of Honour were Charles 'Max' Fernandez - Minister of Tourism and Economic Development, Gregory Athill representing the Parliamentary representative for St. The World Heritage site, Nelson's Dockyard in English Harbour was a perfect setting for the famous awards ceremony. The Final Awards Ceremony was a wonderful occasion for the final party. Antigua Sailing Week is the most celebrated regatta in the Caribbean and the 2023 edition added another great chapter to the history of racing in Antigua, dating back to 1968. Moderate trade winds and tropical heat blessed the racing all week sailing conditions were absolutely fabulous. The 54th edition of Antigua Sailing Week attracted boats and crew from over 20 nations, with sailors competing from six continents. ĭaywalt's older brothers, however unintentionally, fostered his interest in scary stories. It looked like ' The Munsters.'" The house had a storied reputation in the local area, having supposedly been a stagecoach stop, a brothel, and a respite on the Underground Railroad at various times. "I grew up in a house in Hudson, Ohio, that was notoriously haunted. Daywalt is also known for writing scripts for American television and Hollywood studio films, and for creating a number of short horror films for release on the internet.ĭrew Daywalt was born in Hudson, Ohio, on January 5, 1970, the youngest of six children, to Charlene (née Bable) and Charles Daywalt. He is best known for writing the best-selling children's picture book The Day the Crayons Quit, and its sequel The Day the Crayons Came Home, both illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. Drew Daywalt at Politics and Prose, Washington, D.Cĭrew Daywalt (born January 5, 1970), is an American author and filmmaker. “We are enormously privileged to continue our long collaboration with the incomparable Sir Kenneth Branagh and couldn’t be more excited by the bold new creative direction Ken, Michael, and the rest of the filmmaking team have taken with this latest film,” added 20th Century Studios president Steve Asbell. Based on a complex, little-known tale of mystery set at Halloween in a pictorially ravishing city, it is an amazing opportunity for us, as filmmakers, and we are relishing the chance to deliver something truly spine-chilling for our loyal movie audiences,” Branagh said in a statement. “This is a fantastic development of the character Hercule Poirot, as well as the Agatha Christie franchise. The filmmaking team previously teamed on Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and this year’s Death on the Nile. Screenwriter Michael Green ( Logan) adapted Christie’s novel, and Judy Hofflund will produce the film, whose executive producers will include Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Mark Gordon, Louise Killin, and James Prichard. In Vermont, preacher Charles Whitlock begs his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells and their livestock starve. Confined inside by the unseasonable weather, thousands of famine refugees stream past her door. In Switzerland, Mary Shelley finds dark inspiration. But worse is yet to come: as the ash cloud rises and covers the sun, the seasons will fail. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea turned to stone. Sent to investigate, ship surgeon Henry Hoggcan barely believe his eyes. Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. 'A VIVID SLICE OF HISTORICAL FICTION' Sunday Express 'A VISION OF THE PAST AND A VISION OF THE FUTURE' Irish Times 'RICH, INTRICATE, IMPRESSIVELY REALISED' Observer 'SUPERB.BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.UNFORGETTABLE' FT Weekend 'A STRIKINGLY SHARP AND SUBTLE WRITER' Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION PRIZE 2021 |