The Squash History · Folklore · Ancient Recipes

Celebrated in Recipes from Ancient Times to the Present Introduction by Alberto Capatti Accompanying Wines selected by Giuseppe Vaccarini

By Arneo Nizzoli

Reviewed by Liz Waters Copyright 1999, all rights reserved

This beautifully illustrated book is the first book in this History-Folklore-Ancient Recipes series by Konemann which takes a food and traces its history and uses through ages. This volume, of course, deals with the squash, a ubiquitous vegetable numerous varieties. These books focus more on the European preparations and traditions of the foods selected, and therefore bring a new spin on them for the American audience.

Nizzoli presents ancient and modern recipes that are appropriate for today's kitchens. The recipes are easy to follow and include nutritional data on each one as well as excellent wine suggestions of Giuseppe Vaccarini.

Here is a recipe for you to try from the book:

Rigatoni with Squash

1 lb. 5 oz. /600 g of rigatoni 1 lb./450 g of onions, sliced the heart of 1 celery, chopped 3 lb. 5 oz./1.5 kg of squash, diced 2/3 cup/150 g of butter 6 ripe tomatoes salt pepper grated parmesan

Serves 6

Method 1.Into a wide saucepan put ½ cup/ 120 g of butter, the onion, the celery and the squash and let them cook, without the lid and on a high heat, until the squash has softened. Add the peeled and chopped tomatoes, salt and pepper and cook on a low heat. 2. Meanwhile boil the rigatoni in plenty of salted water.

3.shortly before serving, add the remaining butter to the sauce. Drain and add the rigatoni, and sprinkle with parmesan.

Per portion: 526 calories, fiber 0.29 oz/8.4 g

Wines - choose a young dry white wine, such as a Colli Orientali del Friuli Reisling, Colli di Luni, Falerio dei Colli Ascolani or Falanghina del Sannio.

only the best, it is the master piece of Moravia

Pierre Froissart sends faxes signed Crebillon fils, cites Stendhal and Vivant Denon, and lounges in a secluded palazzo, watching his beautiful young lover swimming laps. He muses on art, philosophy, history, and even astronomy as he looks at slides of the stolen painting he has in his possession. Suave, cosmopolitan, immensely well read (as the dizzying range of citations demonstrates), the narrator of this droll, obscure, lyrical, and occasionally witty novel is a modern aristocrat, living a life of ease among the pastel colors of Venice. A kind of sinister boredem seems to afflict everyone but Froissart and his proches. An entertaining exercise in frivolity.

Largely unknown outside of his native Brazil where he is nothing short of a national icon, Alberto Santos-Dumont was a pioneer in both lighter and heavier than air flight. Paul Hoffman tells Santos-Dumont's story from his earliest days as a child experimenting with paper balloons to his final sad days, broken by the fact that the world credited the Wright Brothers with the first flight of a plane and the use of that invention in war. A lot of research clearly went into Wings of Madness and Hoffman has done a marvelous job of reporting on a nearly forgotten chapter and pioneer of aviation history.

La novela original es mejor, pero para una persona quien esta comenzando aprender la lengua, es buena. Este cuento que habla del amor es a veces un poco aburrido, pero al lector le encantaria las palabras hermosas del don Luis. Si quiere aumentar su vocabulario y practicar leyendo, compre este libro.

'Pepita Jimenez', once considered the great 19th century Spanish novel, now lies neglected by most readers and critics. Neither Penguins, Everyman nor Oxford, the pre-eminent publishers of 'Classics', have ever produced an edition, and I only became aware of its existence by accident on the net.

Having just read - and loved - the novel, I can see some reasons for its decline in popularity. for a start, unlike most 19th century novels, it is not realistic or naturalistic; it does not portray a society with voluminous detail. The hero, Don Luis de Vargas, the son of an Andalusian squire and an aspirant to the priesthood, is prone to use the high-flown, ecstatic and orotund language of the spirit, which, though set up by Valera to be undermined, can irritate the reader with its verbosity. The translation, by Valera himself, needs to be updated for the tastes of a modern readership - the famed beauty of the original can appear washily sentimental in unforgiving English. Most importantly, the novel's sunny benevolence, its attempt to reconcile the totems of Spanish conservatism - the Church, the Aristocracy, the Family - with less tractable forces such as Love and Nature, is not fashionable with critics who historicise Spain as a country with violent divisions, and who want their fiction to conform to this vision.

for those willing to take the chance, however, 'Pepita' has something for everyone. Its story of a theologian and his attempts to repress a growing love for the title character, a young widow and the intended of his rakish father, has all the abundant romanticism, terrible tension and potential tragedy of 'Wuthering Heights'. From the novel's first page, when Don Luis describes to his uncle and mentor the Archbishop his first meeting with Pepita, we know what will happen - the interest lies in the unfolding of the inevitable and the psychology of the characters, especially Luis, whose sacred and profane raptures spring from the same source (in its relentless focus on an unstable and delusive psychology, 'Pepita' is closer to the works of Prevost, Constant and Stendhal, than later 19th century realists).

Though not a realistic novel, the book is full of indelible set-pieces of Andalusian village life (trade, social occasions, rites, customs, night-life, festivals, in which the Christian and the pagan are indistinguishable, just as they are in Luis' imagination); and the overwhelming natural beauty, the latter made to serve and reflect the claustrophobic visions and passions of the characters (in its limited focus, in its conflation of spiritual and romantic ideas and language, its slippery allegorical possibilities and its proto-Expressionism, 'Pepita' could be considered the Spanish Nathaniel Hawthorne).

For post-modernists, the novel's straightforward, simple narrative is contained in an elaborate framework, more familiar from Gothic fiction. Parts 1 and 3 consist of letters to the archbishop from his nephew and ward Luis, and his brother, found on his death with his effects. Part 2 consists of a 'paralipomena', a 'fictional' third person narrative continuing the story. The officious editor of these papers speculates in vain on the provenance of this fiction. His own conjectures, interpretations and asides throughout, his alarming tendency to 'edit' the material without explaining his procedures, together with Valera's profound irony, sensual displacement of sexuality and unexpected humour, casts doubt on the novel's seeming optimism, without once diminishing its nerve-wracking immediacy.

Don Luis, un joven que tiene aspiraciones de ser sacerdote, regresa a la casa de su padre después de pasar doce años con su tío en el seminario. Durante su ausencia, su padre se ha hecho pretendiente de Pepita, una viuda joven y hermosa, y a Don Luis le llega todo tipo de chismes sobre la mujer antes de que la conozca, enterándolo de toda su historia. Cuando por fin la conoce, empieza un trastorno moral dentro del pecho del pobre joven y se siente turbado, arrancado entre la lealtad hacia su padre, su vocación al sacerdocio y el deseo fuerte que le provoca Pepita. La novela se trata del psicoanálisis que resulta de este dilema y hace que el lector se cuestione a sí mismo: ¿Qué haría yo?

Como toda obra de Valera, Pepita Jiménez está lleno de lenguaje hermoso que refleja su alto ideal estético. Vale la pena leerse, aún para el estudiante (aunque avanzado) del castellano.

I am a former United States Border Patrol Agent and I read this book while working the fixed positions we often manned along the Arizona-Mexico border. I was so moved by this story, I cried. I cried as I read this book, right there in my Border Patrol vehicle on the very line separating two very different worlds! This book is an easy read and can be taken a little at a time. Its impact is incredible and your heart will be broken. It is a must read! I am not compromising my stance on immigration laws here, I am just expressing my heart-felt pain for some of what the beautiful people of Mexico must face in their lives. God bless!

Brilliant read, by a heroically courageous soul. If you are aspiring to learn more about Mexican reality, read this book. Highly recommended.

This book is a must read for anyone who cares to understand Mexico's border life. Pieces of his stories will haunt you for days, months, or years. He writes in such a manner that innocently seeks your mind but in the end it will garner oh so much more. I only wish he could then tell us how the other side of Mexico lives or can live with such abject poverty (In Mexico, over 40 million out of 90 million live in poverty--17 million live in severe poverty, NAFTA, ye all shall be free..).

There are only a handful 'virtual renderings' of the ancient world in this book. And, although written just a few years ago, most of these renderings look plain when compared with any contemporary simple computerized design drawing or even computer games, though the latter don't have to take into account real world physical constraints. Technical information on the virtual images is lacking for the most part.

I see the author foresaw interesting possibilities for computer reconstruction of past cultures, including virtual traveling 'inside' buildings and surveying vast areas from multiple points of view. This could be very interesting not only to the archaeologist but also to many people in other fields, from sociology to architecture, history, decoration and just travelling. But the still images don't convey a convincing picture of the final result.

I had unmet expectations about this book. It's more of a general account of some recent explorations grouped partly on a time basis and partly by region. I felt also an unbalanced mix in the final product, concerning virtual (little of this) and non virtual imagery, and also on the sites selected.

Summarizing: the book appears as a progress report on current archaeology investigations, with some reference to new techniques. The book title is misleading.

I bought this book for my partner who absolutely loved it and said it was the best thing I ever bought for them! I would highly recommend this to users of any 3D modeling program such as Bryce. I build reconstructions on my website and also for an online community site. It is important to have a good resource to use, and this book defintely fit the bill.

This volume is the best and innovative book of the world about these topics (also because is was written in 1996 !), as prof. Colin Renfrew said in the presentation. Moreover it includes new and original contributions from many important international archaeologists; in fact I know that it has a great success in all the european countries.

No es que no tenga su gracia en algunos (muchos aspectos) y algunos personajes superlogrados, como cierta cubana de la que no recuerdo el nombre, es que tiene una dosis demasiado concentrada de gabrielgarciamarquismos y Gabo no hay mas que uno. Hay pasajes que son mortalmente aburridos y demasiado mirarse al ombligo.

Esta es una novela de las que estremecen de la cabeza a los pies. Quien la lea no puede observar igual el mundo que le rodea, ni podra ser ya indiferente a las pequennas tragedias cotidianas. Esta es una novela para reir, para llorar, para pensar y para crecer. Mi mejor deseo para la persona que mas quiera, es que lea este libro.

This is THE book to buy if you want to learn to write ASPs in Javascript. I have done much searching, and have found no other useful books on this subject. Zero. Sure there are some books that claim to cover Javascript on the back cover, but usually their code is limited to a few examples.

If you're planning to use VB, then there are probably better books out there for you. But if you want to learn to write ASPs in JavaScript, this book is extremely helpful. Though ASP objects are the same no matter what scripting language you use, there are subtle differences in the way you manipulate them. If you try to start coding ASPs in JavaScript from a text that uses Visual Basic, you will undoubtably suffer through a lot of frustrating trial and error.

This book starts with the basics, and works up to some complex examples like a BBS and an online catalog. The writing style is clear and to the point. The CD is no frills, but at least you get all the code. Needless to say, you should already be familiar with JavaScript before you tackle writing ASPs in JavaScript.

A final caveat: There are a number of typos in this book, including a nasty one on page 153 that mixes up the constants for reading and writing files. If not for this, I probably would have given it 5 stars.

I found this book to be a well written guide addressed to an experienced developer who wants to learn ASP using Javascript (or jscript as microsoft calls it). The examples are of the right length and number.

I don't understand why some of the above reviews on this book came out so poor. This book is one of the very few to show large and useful examples of ASP written in JavaScript (JScript). I found this book straight forward, and with direct application to what I, as a developer, needed to know.

To me this book spoke clearly. Not coming from a Microsoft server-side background I needed to get up to speed with ASP. I already knew JavaScript from client-side programming, but most of my server-side programming was done in Perl. I didn't really want to learn a new programming language, and this book took that idea and put it to work. I was able to leverage my knowledge and quickly become proficient at ASP. Most if not all of the features available to ASP are shown using JavaScript, and most things have associated code examples with them.

True, this book is geared for programmers wanting to write web applications. If you are not a programmer you WILL need to get additional references - the authors don't really waste anytime to teach you HTML, or server side scripts or how to program - but that is not what the book is about and the book's preface tells you this. The authors have also included two appendices that will get most programmers up to speed on JavaScript and VBScript.

In terms of organization the book spends the first couple of chapters motivating why ASP is a great development platform and what sets it aside from other technologies out there. From there you get immersed into the basic 5 objects (Request, Response, Application, Session and Server) that provide most of the functionality that you'll need to develop your apps. In my case this was enough to give me a working knowledge of ASP for many projects. Continuing sections show you how to incorporate ActiveX components into your projects, access the file system and access databases. Other chapters are devoted to web issues like application persistence, error handling and debugging. Lastly this book also sports chapters on some less frequently used (but powerful features) server-side includes (SSI) and access control (authentication). Three of chapters are dedicated to 'real world' type examples. One of them even shows you the code as most developers would initially write it, but then refactors it so that most of the code can be reused easily. This chapter provided great insight to me on how to take a web app and make it really easy to maintain.

I have looked for additional books on this topic, but none provides the breadth or depth for this one. GET IT.

Kimura's book is a good atempt to learn about the true in Peruvian History. But, history has never necessarily been a reflection of the true around the World.
The best ever President that has ruled Peru has been President Alberto Fujimori. Not just in our republican life but this includes our gloriuos life during the great Inka's Empire whose territory accounted for almost all South America.
Despite of the manipulated media around the World the current socio-eco-political situatio in Peru as we are right in March of 2002 is only due to the Ineptitud of President Toledo, the lack of Love for the country from the current 'administrators', the obscure interests of a group mainly composed by liberal, civic, pro-totalitarism, pro-jew, Soros'-backed and all the most dangerous and horrible pacts of bad and terror that are destroying Peru.
As Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General once wrote the problems in countries is the mentality that 'winners-take-all' and the current people in this corrupted Government of Peru thinks that way and believe they are entitled to wipe everything just because we the peoples of Peru gave them our sadded-given vote for not voting for A. Garcia who destroyed Peru between 1985-1990.
In an horrendous way, this new Government is co-governing with the APRA and V. Montesinos himself. The ingredient of the day is the cowardly Political Persecution against Mr. Fujimori and all the great people that worked so hard with him to bring the country back from the garbage they left us in 1990.
By far Fujimori was the best and we hope will be back.

I don't agree with Mr Juan Ortecho about his views of this book. What was so bad about Mr Fujimori that he must be so defiled? Are past leaders like Alan Garcia who bankrupt the country and did nothing for the poor and to resolve the terrorist problems any better? Mr Fujimori may be branded a dictator but at least he built roads schools services, brought peace from terrorism and resolve dthe long standing border dispute with Ecuador. Of course politics is politics and very few politicians can do their job without being manipulative and "dirty". Think about it, if Mr Fujimori had been the Mr Nice Kind guy that Mr Ortecho wants him to be would he have been able to achieve for Peru a certain measure of social political and economic stability?

This book is different because it purports to show a side of a man that Peruvians who are enjoying the peace his efforts brought while at the same time joining in the unfair diatribe against him. Past leaders ravaged the country of Peru with corruption, disinterest and mismanagement but no one wants to talk about that. I like this book because it gives fairness where fairness is due!

Recently, the media and many Peruvians have depicted Mr Fujimori as the evil hand that ruled Peru for 10 years. This seems very unfair in view of the fact that when Mr Fujimori became President of Peru in 1990, the country was bankrupt and ungovernable. Even basic services like running water and electricity were unavailable to the millions of Peruvians that other Presidents had forgotten about. Violence from terrorism rocked the country and with Peru not being able to service its loans, its financial credibility was almost zero. 10 years later, when mr Fujimori was thrown out of the country without any appreciation for what he had done for Peru, the country is at least governable with even a growth rate of 4 per cent projected. Can anyone say that Mr Fujimori's reforms and policies had no good results to show?

This book is refreshing because it dares to disagree with the current unfair Fujimori bashing and gives him credit where it is due. It shows a side of Mr Fujimori and his achievements that no one wants to give credit to, and history will be kind to him, for he leaves a legacy that Peruvians with fragile memories refuse to acknowledge. Alberto Fujimori was what Peru needed, when Peru needed it. And this book is not afraid to acknowledge this fact and shows a side of him that a self respecting and fair person should read in order to form a fair and open view of this misunderstood and battered man.