The analogy of mice and little people trapped in a maze is a sadly accurate, insulting, and condescending one. An unintentional commentary on the fuedal system that is corporate America. So the moral of the story is, the powerless need to stop whining and accept whatever those in power choose to do to them. Don't think. Don't question. Don't hope.
The Cheese and the Worms has got to be the most ridiculously over-rated academic work of history of the past 3 decades. The author's central argument of the existence of an essentially unchanged Indo-European folk culture that spans both millenia and continents is both completely lacking in evidence and, from a theoretical view, patently ridiculous.
You can't simply sit down and find vague similarities between what a 16th century miller says and what some guy 2000 years earlier said in India and then, without any evidence or even a compelling argument of how the expressed ideas would have been transmitted, claim that this is proof positive that a substrata of Indo-European popular culture formed the predominant mentalite of most of ... Read More:
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I am using this book to coincide with our homeschooling classes. This is for our Cooking Course. It is an excellent book with instructions to suit my children's grades of 4th, 3rd, and 1st. Highly recommended.
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Although it doesn't make as regular an appearance in our bedtime reading schedule, the Stinky Cheese Man does produce giggles.
My kids are too young to know all of the fairy tales this book is busy shredding in the name of parody. That's OK. I plan to reintroduce this to them when they get older.
For now, all I have to do is provide the Stinky Cheese Man with a high-pitched, pseudo-Spongebob voice and read the text as "fast as I can" and I've got a happy audience at bedtime.
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We've been making wine for several months now and have been thinking about trying to make cheese. This is a great book to use if you don't have a kit to work with. So many different recipes, we can't wait to get started!
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This is a book about cooking, preservation, and presentation. I find the recipes are easy to follow and are very satisfied with the results. I especially enjoy the recipes for the Carolina pull pork, homemade BBQ sauces, and sausages. Another recipes winner is the smoke / preserved salmon, they turned out great.
This book is not really for a beginner, but if you already know your way around the kitchen this will be a great addition to your collection.
Note: this is probably the most time consuming part of a professional kitchen but the rewards is worth the wait.
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That's what keeps this mystery series interesting and exciting. In a lot of ways the goings on in the small town of Lake Eden are not realistic, but who cares? Hannah and her friends are just so much fun. It took awhile for this book to get going, and the actual murder doesn't occur until over half-way through, but the pacing after that is pretty good. I figured out who the murderer was right away since it seemed to me only one could have done it, but it was fun to find out the motive and to watch Hannah and her crew discover the clues that they needed to put it all together. The book has a Hollywood movie being shot in downtown Lake Eden, and this puts the whole town in a state of excitement. I also loved the parts of the book with Moishe (Hannah's cat) ... Read More:
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I've made a few recipes in this book. They have all been great! We make grilled "cheese" sandwiches, use it in wraps, on English muffins, etc. Tonight I made the Eggplant Parmezano. Excellent! I've also made the baked Mac and Cheese, which was also very good. I definitely recommend this book. It's cheesy, though it doesn't really taste like "real" cheese. But my meat eating, cheese loving husband has loved everything I've made so far and is impressed by the cheesieness.
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