The entire Fox Fire colledtion should be required reading for all people of this country. You would get a feel for where we came from and our heritage. The books show a deep respect for each other, God and country. Very good.

What makes this book so special is the narratives with each recipe. It is as though you are sitting in a West Virginia or Carolina kitchen with family long-gone, listening, as they tell how to make that special family recipe. As I have researched my family roots, I've often wished I could have known some of my ancestors from this part of the country, what their stories were, their everyday experiences. This book is a jewel and the recipes are absolute treasures. The memories it holds are a bit of disappearing Americana. This is comfort food at its best and a sampling of the simple lives and times that brought it to us. The canning recipes are some of the best you'll find anywhere. It even has recipes for squirrel, possum and other mountain delicacies that I've heard in family stories (but oooh, who'd want to eat them now?!) We've laughed and sighed as we poured over each page, each story. This will be a book you'll cherish.

This book along with the nine preceding this one, should be required reading for anyone interested in the day to day living of early days in the south.

Can I get the email address of the Author (Robert S Eliot) emailed to my address mentioned below vinodhkumar_b@yahoo.com vinodmanju@hotmail.com

I have been in Costa Rica for 2 months now and have one more month to go. I have been using this guide to find hotels, great places to eat, shop, and hang out at night. His recommendations are awesome and, of course, accurate. The only discrepancy has been some of the hotel prices. They seem to be quoted lower in the book by a few dollars even though I am traveling during the low season. His bus schedule times are pretty accurate although with so many fluctuations with scheduling it is best to call ahead. If you want more history on any particular region it would be best to do outside reading as this guide book is more to the point step by step instructions on how to get there and where to stay.

I have read all Jane Austens books. They are funny and colourless. Most of all I liked the book: Pride and Prejudice.But Emma is funnier. I have seen the movie:Emma,and the movie: Pride and Prejudice.They were very funny!

Sir Gawain of the Knights of the Round Table travels as an envoy from the High King Arthur to the Druids. Saxons killed his traveling companions when he stumbles upon a village. He is named the May King and spends quality time with Lady Green. Gawain begins to think that he may love her and makes vows to the May Queen, Lady Green, who has fallen in love with him. However, as he learns about the fate of the May King, Gawain does a non-chivalrous act and flees into the night. He rationalizes his act by claiming he has problems with his good Christian soul and heritage mingling with her paganism and Satanism. At Camelot, a legendary song about his exploits is created. .. ....One night a green knight rides into Arthur's manor and challenges all the knights to a New Year's game. He offers his neck to any knight willing to use his ax to cut off his head. However, one year and a day later, the same knight must offer up his neck to the Green Knight. Since none of the other knights of the Round Table except Arthur took up his offer, Gawain reluctantly agrees to the terms. He chops the off the head of the Green Knight, who calmly picks up his head and informs Gawain that he will see him next year at the Green Chapel. ........Gawain, for the sake of high honor and the reputation of his King and his fellow knights, searches for the Green Chapel, knowing full well that when he finds it, he finds death. He prays for the Lord to forgive him for his sins, as he continues his search for the obscure Green Chapel. When Gawain finally finds the Green Chapel, he learns the secret behind the Green Knight. However, will his courage be able to complete his geas of honor and enable him to understand the greater lessons of life and death? ...GAWAIN AND LADY GREEN is an incredibly refreshing retelling of the fabulous Medieval poem. Anne Eliot Crompton brilliantly brings alive the clash of titans (Christianity Vs Druidism), and the hypocrisy behind foolish conceit that can kill the greatest of loves. Anyone who enjoys the Arthurian legend or a Middle Ages Romanticism needs to read this great story and its predecessor, MERLIN'S HARP. ...Harriet Klausner

What a provocative title! Paxton's book is not about evolutionary psychology, but the relationship between Spencer and Eliot laid the groundwork for much of what came about in the twentieth century focus on the place of biology in determining relations between man and woman, the individual and society, and the role that evolutionary theory plays in helping people to determine the paramaters. Actually, that is just what I looked for when I picked this book up. Paxton has an excellent grasp on these issues and her knowledge of Eliot and Spencer is remarkable. I could not put this book down because reading Paxton's writings is like sitting in front of her. She commands your attention by her sheer brilliance in controlling the topic.

I was happy not to find too much parroting of current literary trends and her focus on the texts of Spencer and Eliot are genuine. Some may not like her for that reason, but an honest person looking for an unbiased treatment of poor Spencer will find plenty to think about. This is the best book on the relationship between Eliot and Spencer, and the only one to treat it with the care and civility it deserves.

this book is, simply put, wonderful. you will love the good guys and detest the bad, but most of all want to praise ms. elliot for her touching masterpiece

George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evens, author of arguably the greatest novel in the Victorian era, Middlemarch, was not just an author but an intellectual giant. She translated works of philosophy from the German and from Latin; knew and exchanged ideas with the brightest minds of the time; was fluent in 7 languages (French, Italian, German, Latin, Hebrew, Greek and Spanish), and was compelled by a natural curiosity to acquire knowledge all through her life.

Her life with a married man created a Victorian scandal, yet by the time of her death in 1880 she was England's most celebrated author visited even by Queen Victoria's daughters.

This biography is a thorough, accessible and engrossing book. Author Karl is a fan of Eliot's yet hides none of her blemishes. While he generally refuses to speculate on a lot of Victorian gossip regarding her life, he at times annoys the reader with some unwarranted attempts to psychoanalyze her (I do get tired of the injection of Freud into literature). The slowest parts of the book deal with her frequent trips to Europe. We learn what she did on Tuesday in Berlin, and then her activities in Hamburg on Wednesday. While I realize that the recording of such information is important in providing a fairly complete detail of her life, I tend to nod a bit at the lengthy reports of her travels.

Historically we are blessed with a huge number of extant correspondence of Eliot. The author makes good use of these letters, yet the book does not turn into an epistolary work i.e. a book of nothing but verbatim letters.

One of my purely personal problems with the book was that I have not read all of Eliot's novels. Mr. Karl, of necessity perhaps, relates much of the plots of her books, and thus creates a real spoiler for the novels that I haven't read. That's my problem, of course, and not the author's.

It would seem that people today are probably unaware of this important author who was known throughout England during her writing lifetime. Her novels and her life are an important part of the literary canon. I heartily recommend this well crafted book