Jewish women have been cooking and handing down their recipes since Rivka cooked a savory dish with which Jacob tricked Isaac. Evelyn Rose is the food editor for the UK Jewish Chronicle and author of the cookbook nearly every Jewish home owns: The New Complete International Jewish Cookbook. Her daughter, Judi, who lives in NYC, is a producer for the BBC and is currently preparing a series on Thai cooking. Mother passes traditions and tips and lore onto daughter in this book. In addition to recipes and tips (tips on frying onions, soaking beans, chopping, preparing rice, and baking skills), folktales are also passed down to the new generation, such as how it took Evelyn ten years to coax the Rose family pickle recipe out of her husband. The Roses also include some holiday menus at the back of the book which makes it easier for you to add their recipes to your holiday presentations. For each classic Jewish recipe, the authors also present updated hybrids. For example, recipes include classic chicken soup, followed by a contemporary szechuan chicken soup with soy, ginger, or lemongrass. Hungarian Goulash soup is followed by a Spanish red pepper soup. A traditional Jewish lentil soup is paired with a Cream of Watercress; chopped chicken liver is followed by liver pate with pears and a citrus and red currant sauce; or maybe you'd prefer a vegetarian mock-liver zucchini pate. Traditional Sephardic cheese puffs are followed by contemporary French petites gougeres. A traditional Tunisian baked omelet (badinjan kuku) is followed by Israeli cream cheese pancakes. The Roses provide a recipe for a lokshen kugel that can be made with wheat and egg free asian noodles (did you know that lakcha means noodles in Turkish?), as well as an excellent recipe for a traditional Anglo-Jewish halibut in lemon sauce, and a kosher Valencian seafood-free paella. Gefilte fish is hybridized with Gefilte Fish Provencale, Marmite due Pecheur, and Normandy style fish with cider and apples. There are a dozen chicken dishes, including a lemon chicken; an orange, raisin, and honey chicken; and spice roasted chicken with apricot and bulgher stuffing. As for salad recipes; to name a few, there is Moroccan carrot-raisin; fennel, almond and black grape; Manchester style potato; cucumber; and melon, cucumber and strawberry. The desserts are to die for, need I say more? Okay, let me mention three: A traditional Queen of Sheba Flourless Chocolate Gajeau, a contemporary Viennese Apfelschnitten, and a classic Jewish Apple Pie. A very good resource for the Jewish and non-jewish cook.

Mother & Daughter Jewish Cooking contrasts the different cooking methods and experiences of a mother/daughter team: while mother Evelyn strives to preserve Jewish traditional recipes, adapting them to the healthier diet of today; daughter Judi uses modern ingredients and international influences to spice the results. The result's a cookbook packed with innovation and new ideas.

This book continues the 'Sword of Honor" trilogy begun with Men at Arms. Halberdier Guy Crouchback returns from Africa chastened, but still anxious to serve his country in its time of need. Dismissed from his regiment due to his complicity in the death of his friend Apthorpe, Guy is now assigned to a Commando unit. As part of a patchwork group called Hookforce, X Commando reaches the island of Crete just in time to cover the retreat and embarkation of the regular Allied forces, and are left with orders to surrender to the enemy after the other groups have left.

Once again, Waugh points his dry English wit at the freshly-commissioned British officers of WWII to amusing effect, while still making serious points about the readiness of British forces and the military suitability of Britain's gentry. For example, one running gag is an officer frantically rushing to headquarters only to find that the commander doesn't know what to do with him. The comedic high point is when Trimmer (a former hairdresser) is sent on a largely pointless mission by officers who are desperate to score a success - any success - in order to improve public perceptions of their unit. Operation Popgun goes awry when the sub gets lost and accidentally stumbles into enemy territory, and when a sergeant, acting without orders, blows up a supply train, a clever reporter manages to describe the mission as a dramatic success, rather than the comedy of errors that it actually was.

More serious are the concluding sections that describe various characters' arduous withdrawal from Crete. While there may be some black humor in these scenes, they seem to played more for dramatic effect, to show how men react to such harrowing situations. Although Major Hound, Guy, and Ivor Claire each make different choices, one can scarcely say that one was really better than the other.

Readers who enjoyed Men at Arms will find this volume rather darker, with less emphasis on hijinks and more on military action. Men at Arms really should be read first, however, because this volume assumes a certain familiarity with Crouchback's personality and military record, as well as some of the minor characters who are referred to frequently. If you read Men at Arms but didn't really care for it, be forewarned: this book isn't any funnier, but delves a little more deeply into the misery of war.

Waugh does it again. The man is amazing. Best war trilogy ever. Don't miss this book. He puts all others to shame. Should be a movie, too. Better than Lord of the Rings. Et al. Etc.

I found this to be of some help to me. I've read a lot on grief, and this book wasn't bad.

I taught the first "Death and Living" course in the Los Angeles City Schools. It was a class designed to help teens learn how to experience loss. It was, perhaps, the most popular elective at U. S. Grant High School. I used no text for no book embodied all the different ways we suffer loss in our lives; obviously, the greatest loss is death, but also moving from one place to another, getting fired from a job, or breaking up wih a girl or by friend -- all of these are major losses in one's life -- and there are others.

Along comes The Path Through Grief and with it the first book which could well serve as that missing text. The book is written simply and directly. And, its main strength is the sections written by the person who experienced the loss directly. The person writes his story effectively, intelligently and with knowledge and feelings that come from his own personal awareness and suffering.

None of the book is maudlin, depressing nor explotative. The author is writing to offer hope, sustenance and sensitivity to an arrreea of life that is usually kept under wraps. My major purpose in creating the class was to lead my students from darkness into light in an area alwaays present in our midst but usually kept remote and silent.

The author succeeds admirably and beautifully in conveying the idea that death, like any major event of one's life, could be a source of creating a new beginning for ourselves.

The book offers a powerful antidote to those who believe deaath is the end for, in fact, it could be the start of self-discovey in ways that were never before revealed.

I recommend The Path Through Grief to you, without reservation, as a valuable tool in dealing with loss and its aftermath.

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham asserts that southern black women, through their participation in the National Baptist Convention fostered agency, activism, women's rights and racial dignity during the post-Reconstruction era of Jim Crow. Intrisic to her thesis is that while black women utilized the Baptist church as a support stucture against racism and poverty, they also worked to raise the status of the black race as a whole and black women specifically. One of the most important insights in this book, is an in-depth analyiztion of the feminization of religion. However,while Higginbotham's thesis is stong and engaging, altering the hereto academic focus away from prominent black Baptist activists to a wider, regional phenomenom of group participation, ultimatley her study contains a few theoretical holes. There is little critical analysis of the opposition that black women faced in their endevores, such as the creation the Womens Convention, a subsiderary of the larger National Baptist Convention. Also, there is no sense of the black "masses," consistantly refered to as such, that these women tried to help. "Masses," in this case indicates a monolith rather than an increasingly diversified group of people. Ellaboration on both of these points would have greatly improved the complexity of Higginbotham's study, as well as left the reader a great deal more informed. Over all, Righteous Discontent is a valuable source for anyone seeking information on race, gender and relgion at the turn of the century. Higginbotham's treatment of the subject is tactful and engaging, uncovering a little known but important facet of African American history.

Evelyn Higginbotham shows us that this is not a man's world anymore with her book on the role of women the Black Baptist Church. Her writing is fluid and detaied, and she provides various examples to illustrate her points. This is the definitive text for learning about the roles that the Black Baptist church in African-American society.

An interesting read if you want to learn about Native American spirituality and medicine wheels. This book contains a segment of the author's life history and her experiences on her life path. It also contains a brief description of how to set up a medicine wheel of your own. Quite a bit involves her battle with her own illness. She also deals with her problems relating to full-blooded Native Americans, since she is of mixed blood

This book is a continuation of "I send A Voice" by the same author.

It is laid out in several sections. a brief update to her work as a medicine woman, Her version of the medicine wheel (she uses a complex 32 stone medicine wheel. I have seen 10-15 different medicine wheel traditions, then excerpts from her journals showing her battle with cancer, and the "christian" bigotry toward her spiritual beliefs because of the pipe bag she hung from the west wall of her home, and her hospital room when she was in the hospital to be treated for cancer.

Many people will dismiss her mystical experiences while smoking the pipe as coincidence, or say she was day dreaming, or accuse her or putting an halucinogen in the tobacco.

Neither are true. I am 100% convinced those mystical experiences really happened. I say 100% because I too have had many mystical experiences while using a pipe in a sacred manner.

Pray in a sincere humble manner, and things happen; when you pray. Pipe or not, Pipestone pipe or a cheap pipe from a local store.

In her earlier book she was under the impression that people MUST use a pipestone pipe. This is not so. in 1896; Wicasa Wakan (holy man) Grorge Sword was teaching James R. Walker (a white "christian" doctor) to be a wicasa wakan, and according to George Sword "Any pipe can be used in a sacred manner.", and I am VERY happy to confirm that. My day to day pipe is a small meerschaum pipe.

I only use my pipestone pipe on special occasions. It is adorned with indian beadwork, and buckskin, and I do not want to have to throw the stem away and make another one in the near future.

Her medicine wheel tradition is complex. If you want to know the medicine wheel tradition I use that is based on the vision by the late Oglalla Sioux holy man Nick Black Elk; E-Mail me.

Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)

Like most of Kennedy's books, the plot of this book is simplistic, but it makes for an enjoyable read. Basically, a married woman with children and a rotten husband goes to work in a women's clinic with an attractive interesting lesbian doctor who is breaking up with her long time lover. Who doesn't know what the rest of this story is going to be? The question for the end is, do they find a way to achieve what they really want? Kennedy is good at writing erotic scenes and there are plenty of those if that's what you're looking for.

I found this to be one of the better books I've read recently. Good plot and interesting and believable characterizations.

Evelyn Coleman has outdone almost every other author out there! WHAT A WOMAN'S GOTTA DO has so many secrets, crooks, twists and turns that it's almost unreal that all of this can come from one person's imagination!

First of all, I would like to say that I'm not even a fan of anything that has ANY element of science fiction in it and I hardly ever read mysteries because there just aren't that many good ones out there, but WHAT A WOMAN'S GOTTA DO had science fiction elements, mystery, conspiracy theories, government plots and action and all these elements came together in the most spectacular way! Every little thing had a meaning...for goodness sakes, even the cover of the book has a few secrets in it.

The main character, Patricia Conley, accidentally gets involved in a government scandal. She fights against police, scientists and government officials who think that she knows things that could alter the balance of long-term, top secret governement operated projects.

Words can't do justice to just how fantastic this novel is. If there ever were a book that could not be put down, it is WHAT A WOMAN'S GOTTA DO by Evelyn Coleman.

Evelyn Coleman has written a compelling page-turner. An ingenious plot, filled with mystery and suspense, is skillfully blended with a passionate and engaging exploration of love, friendship, race relations, loyalty and what it means to be "family." I loved the dialog in this book and I admire the author for the gutsy yet low-keyed way she tackles racial and sexual stereotyping - by both women and men, black and white.

I cheered Patricia Conley, the book's smart and spunky protagonist, every step of the way - she's stood up at the altar, gets kicked out of her karate dojo for beating up another student who insults and tries to bully her (and also because she's not spiritual enough!), she stubbornly searches for her fiancée's identity and the reason for his murder, and encounters (in dream-time) a Dogon shaman who challenges her assumptions about the nature of reality itself. All with enough action, thrills, and unexpected plot twists to leave the reader breathless! I couldn't put this book down once I started it!

This review was written by a friend of mine. She does not have an e-mail address, so I offered to put it on the web for her.

Patricia Conley is definitely my kind of woman. A true kindred spirit of what a woman's gotta do. From the beginning to end, it was a turn page, on the seat of your pants thriller. My adrenaline was pumping as I turned page after page. I laughed at the funny one-liners coming from Patricia.

I became Patricia, wanting to kick-ass, sick of the pooh-pooh men dis-respecting me. Wanting them to know who was the smart one in this game.

The Dogons gave me food for thought, moved me in a spiritual way. Yes, there is a twin in ourselves or somewhere in the universe.

I laughed and cried at the end of this book, sorry that it was over, but looking forward to the next one.

Thank you Evelyn. I came away as a better person knowing that no matter what our gender is, we are one. This is a keeper, and I can't wait to bet your next one. I'll be waiting in anticipation Love, Your friend, Beverly

Brideshead Revisited is a memoir of Charles Ryder that takes a look at the British upper class as the world around them begins to change with the advent of war. The tale begins with the bored wealthy students in Oxford, living lives of self-indulgence and irresponsibility. This is where Charles Ryder first comes into contact with Sebastian Flyte and eventually meets the rest of the Marchmain family group. The story evolves into one of attraction, love and the search for happiness and self. It takes it's own unique path including escapism in alcohol, denial of faith, desperate longings for acceptance and the desire to both please and placate (while infuriating and denying) family. It is the moral tale of what people truly long for and seek out when the material things of the world lose their ability to entrance and delight. When the realities of life rush in and cause individuals to take a true look at what is critical to their heart and soul, what they are willing to compromise and what they suddenly find can not be compromised at any cost, this is the glory of this classic and timeless novel. From the first visit to Brideshead, the Marchmain family's imposing residence, Charles Ryder is struck by the discordant notes of Sebastian's family. Time reveals the tragedy of a family with a desire to appear traditional and socially accepted in the "correct" circle. They are pulled apart by the inflexibility and controlling behavior exhibited within the walls of Brideshead. The story affects a misleading attitude of indifference, neither condemning nor sanctioning any conduct or behavior that occurs. This is a critical part of the brilliance of Evelyn Waugh's tale, which in effect brings the characters and the reader to a startling conclusion at the finale.

Just as *The Great Gatsby* captured the grand excess of the American Jazz Age, so too does Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece *Bridehead Revisited* capture the age of pre-war decadence. The clash between have and have not, so called class and commonness and Catholocism and athieism is brilliantly laid agains a backdrop of education and sexuality. A true coming of age novel, *Bridehead* captures a portrait of a young Charles Ryder as an artist. Content to live his destiny of middle class anguish, Charles meets the challange of his lifetime in Sebastian Flyte. Sebastian, an over grwon child, introduces Charles to a teddy bear named Aloysius, as well as his own upper crust band of misfits family who change the way Charles thinks about life, love, religion and money forever. From Oxford to the war, Waugh gives the reader a hint of a Britain loyal to the monarchy, yet more loyal to themselves. Read *Brideshead* with an open mind of the beauty you are receiving as a reader: the sybolism of the flower throughout, grand side characters like Anthony Blanche, and the little red light near the end that ties up Charles Ryder's visit to Brideshead in the same manner the green light across the lake summed up Gatsby's.

This book deals with many themes, friendship, love, duty, religion, and art. Charting the declining fortunes of the Catholic Flyte family, we are introduced one by one to the dysfunctional but totally charming members of the family, from Sebastian who turns from a beautiful but lightheaded student to a hopeless dipsomaniac; his father, mother, sisters and brother who are all affected by their Catholicism in different ways. We see Julia emerge from a social butterfly to a depressed beauty; Cordelia from a quaint child to a devoted nurse... all through the eyes of Charles Ryder, who himself undergoes a series of transitions from idealistic twenty-year-old to disillusioned artist. it is a poetic book about 'forerunners', how he first loves Sebastian then Julia, then learns to appreciate Cordelia for her strengths, and finally is able to love the House ---Brideshead Castle. A moving and almost epic book. Reviewed by FMJ Shaw

I first read this book over fifteen years ago and it says something about the potency of the story that I (who am usually bad at remembering names) can still rattle off the characters' names -- Sidney Carton, Doctor and Lucy Mannette, Charles Darnay, Madame DeFarge ... I began reading the book sitting outside on a hot summer day, but was soon actually feeling cold as I was drawn into the freezing rain and mud of the openning scene on the Dover Mail coach. This book has it all: romance and tragedy, mystery and history, revolutionary atrocities and courtroom drama, not to mention both openning and closing lines which are unforgettable and famous (It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...). It's a book that truly transports you to another time, one of history's most terrible and frightening, as well as one of its most idealistic and noble. A word to all those kids who had to read it for school and gave it bad reviews: there is something about having to ! read a book for school that makes you hate it. Don't let that throw you. Read it again ten years from now, after you've had a chance to experience life (both the good and bad stuff) a bit more, after you've learned a bit more history so you can understand all the book's allusions, and when you (and this time not your teacher) are really in the mood to read, and you'll see why this book is considered one of the truly great classics.

I just finished reading this book in my 9th grade Honors english class, and I have to say that I loved it! It was terribly boring at first--very hard reading! And Dickens IS VERY wordy; or, as my English teacher says, he likes to make his point and than slap you in the face with it several times until you get the point! Aside from that however, I really enjoyed the story. I laughed with my friends over the mini battle between Madame Defarge and Miss Pross, and cried with them at Sydney Carton's courage(he made Charles Darnay look meaningless). Although this classic story is by far one of the best I've ever read (Black Beauty is THE best), I don't think I could have enjoyed it nearly as much without my wonderful English teacher explaining every "difficult" section-- and pointing out the humor that Dickens uses, and which many overlook. To fully enjoy this book, you have to read "between the lines", but if you have the patience to do this, I gaurentee you will love this book as much as I do!

Charles Dickens deserves two thumbs up for his magnificent creation, A Tale of Two Cities. This novel does an explicit job of foreshadowing and portraying the French Revolution in the eyes of many different people. Dickens' attention to details also helps the novel flow well and at the same time, create irony and suspense. For example, when Mrs. Defarge remained almost invisible, her stitching revealed a lot about who she was and what her plans were. This brought irony to the plot. I also enjoyed the symbolism throughout the story. It was thought provoking. When I read the story for the first time, I thought some situations were unnecessary and were dragged on, but as I furthered into the book, every detail that previously occurred started to make sense. It is amazing that an author could make all of these details have parallels and with so much precision. I also liked how he formed the characters. Many of the characters within the novel were clearly described for a good reason. Most of them had one other character that they paralleled with. It is not easy to develop characters that are similar to one another, yet also opposite. There were also many twists to the story that made me want to keep reading so I could find out what was really going to happen, but I do not want to reveal any twists as to spoil the story for those who have not read it. I would highly recommend reading A Tale of Two Cities to any person who enjoys reading a wonderful story. Just remember to pay attention to the details and the book will make sense in the end.