This book and "New Recipes from Amish Country" are, without a doubt, my most used, most read and most worn cookbooks in my library. These cookbooks are not only wonderful for their recipes, but also for just curling up on the couch with a cup of coffee to browse through. The pictures and stories are wonderful. Marcia Adams is one of my favorite cookbook authors on the market today. She knows what she's writing about and her books are incredibly enjoyable to go through, not to mention educational.

My favorite recipes out of Cooking from Quilt Country - Whole Wheat Bread (wonderfully easy and very delicious), Cinnamon Rolls (great icing!) and Potato Pancakes (I still haven't found a recipe that can match the flavor of this one)

This is a delightful book that offers interesting glimpses of the Amish lifestyle and preserves some wonderful recipes. I greatly enjoy the photos and anecdotes in this book, as well as the terrific recipes.

I make the Hot Water Pie Crust in nine-crust batches and freeze it (it freezes perfectly). It is the easiest pie crust recipe I've ever used and tastes just like Grandma's. We don't have pie often, due to its fat content, but when we do, this crust never fails.

The oven-fried chicken recipe is also a winner. Again, it has a lot of fat, but it's great for special occasions and company dinners.

Kudos to Marcia for ensuring that these treasured recipes aren't lost, and for providing a peek at a unique way of life.

This is the best cookbook I own. The recipes are relatively simple but also unique in a way. I especially like the vegetable dishes. I use this cookbook as a wedding present all the time. My wife makes the Amish apple pie and it is the best. Every New Years Day I make the cabbage rolls and they are outstanding. The crushed ginger snaps make it special. Men and women who cook should own this cookbook.

Eddings is without a doubt the greatest fantasy writer alive. The Elenium(and the Tamuli) are wonderful sets. The six books comprise the tale of well developed characters with amazing plots. The constant shifts in plot make for an interesting tale and will never make you want to put it down! If you love Fantasy, I give this series the highest honors and suggest it to all! Do not hesitate!

After 3 weeks with no sleep, food or social life I have finished The Elenium, The Tamuli, The Belgariad, The Mallorean, Belgarath and Polgara, The Rivan Codex and High Hunt! Just The losers to go! It was one amazing ride! You get completely taken up with the characters. I've fallen in love with Berit, hated Asharak, cried about Toth and been completely envious of a man who can write such an amazingly detailed set of works! How does he do it? These novels might not change your life but they'll make you laugh, cry, hate and love. I can't wait to do the experience again! There have got to be some more Elenium novels! It can't end until Danae has well and truly caught Talen! READ THESE BOOKS NOW! love Snow White

David Eddings worked out any kinks he had in previous series, very few, in his third series of books. The Elenium is an absolutely amazing collection of people, tension and humor. Eddings' characters feel look and talk in a real, incredibly humorous (sarcasm, with touches of irony, in a patronizing manner). It's so much fun you have to read it over and over again because every line is worth it. Eddings in the manner of great fantasy, even manages to comment on religion, politics and marriage while making you enjoy it and ask for more. In short he is absolutely the best author ever and achieves what Homer was looking for and never accomplished with the Odyssey...creating something epic

There were alot of great recipes in this book. Some of them sound intimidating, but the author makes it very easy to follow and prepare. There is also a good deal of information on buying fish, meats and seafood.

I have enjoyed David's wonderful skills on many an occasion including a number of the recipes in this book. He has never failed to win over my tastebuds. The book makes his magic seem so easy. How could I miss with my own attempts at preparation?

I had the pleasure of tasting the foods prepared by Chef David Daniluk at the preview of his book which supported the Make A Wish Foundation. I thought it would be just another gourmet event with food that I would never in a million years prepare myself. Yes, the food was outstanding but I am so impressed at how amazingly easy the recipes are to read. The ingredients are fairly simple and the two recipes that I tried, so far, were easy and successful!

If you are a parent, I urge you to read this book! Not only were Matt's parents thrown into the world of raising a little person in an "average-sized" world, they excelled at teaching Matt that despite his disabilities, he could not only survive, but succeed in this world. They never gave Matt an opportunity to pitty himself.

We live in a world that tells us to blame someone for everything that happens in our life. Matt never did that -- today he is a successful businessman, a devoted husband and loving father.

This book taught me that God has a purpose and plan for everyone's life and we must use our talents to the best of our ability. Matt's life has turned out better than what he could have ever imagined.

What a wonderful story!

At one level, Against Tall Odds is about overcoming the challenges of being a little person in a world built and inhabited largely by average-sized people. At a more basic level, it is about being human and learning to live a full and productive life no matter who you are or where you start from.

Matt Roloff, a highly-successful software and services developer and part-time real estate entrepreneur, started from a place that's hard to imagine even after you read his own account. As a diastrophic dwarf, Roloff spent a significant part of his early life in San Francisco's Shriner's Hospital. There, well-intentioned but ultimately ineffectual doctors subjected him to a battery of excruciating medical procedures designed to "straighten, twist and lengthen different parts of [his] body," and hospital staff enforced a strict visitation policy that limited family visits to 2 hours per week. During the long days and nights that he lay immobilized in a body cast, Roloff stared at the white ceiling tiles and dreamed. Later on, those dreams became the mainspring of an active, intriguing and inspiring life that revolves around his wife, their four young children, and their Disneyesque 35-acre farm/home that is the creative expression of his fertile mind.

Roloff's progression from the baby the doctors were afraid to tell his parents about to an accomplished, multi-talented adult is a fascinating and touching story, told against the background of an amazing family; of siblings whose physical infirmities and will to live rival his own; and of parents whose faith, humor, strength of character and unselfish love instilled in their children the curious notion--so evident throughout this book--that life is to be relished, not endured.

Against Tall Odds is an engaging book for readers of all ages. It should be required reading for every middle school student and is definitely a must-read for anyone who has ever excused himself for anything on the grounds that life isn't fair.

It was inspiring to read this book about a big man in a small body, who has faced the adversities and challenges, and has overcome them. This is an uplifting story of triumph, which has helped me in my own day-to-day battles. I have recommended it to my friends and colleagues.

This is one of the best books I have read. David takes you from the begining with basics through to financially educated. It was hard to put this book down. I believe every women who does not handle her finances should read this book. Get on the "wagon" and know what is really going on out there in the world. I already handle our family finances, but I have gained so much more knowledge and organization from this book. I have gotten all my friends at work to read this book. I recommend all of David Bachs products.

I LOVED this book, It really helped me put my financial and future life in order. I am 33 and am a model and have been sort of investing in my future but wasn't sure if I was on the right track. I had tried to read many other books on financial success and ask financial advisors my questions but was always confused and thought the books were a snore. I picked up Davids book at a bookstore and literally could not put it down. It was so insightful, and easy to read, it has many real life instances that we as women can relate to and helps you understand in plain english how to make the most of your life. I know now what to do with my investments and how to make the most of my financial and personal life. I have bought this book for many friends and family, they all love it and are on their way to retiring rich!!!!
Whether you are married or single you as a woman should know everything about your finances and this is a great and easy way to get started on the right track!! It is hard to explain how many ways this book can help your life, its just the best book you could ever read for your present and future wellbeing!!!

I recently got divorced and needed some financial advice. I bought David Bach's book "Smart Women Finish Rich" and was hooked right away. He gives sound advice in an easy to read format. I have made several changes for the better (i.e. saving for retirement, deciding to go back to college) since reading his book. I highly recommend this book!

I have a certain (though very limited!) degree of experiential overlap with the author of this book. Like him, I practice zen - although unlike him I have never pursued the practice as far as Japan. Like him, I have practiced zen at the San Francisco Zen Center on Bush St. But since I live in Dayton, Ohio, I don't practice zen there all that much! And finally, like him, I have been to Japan and been amazed, amused, and astounded by the place. However, unlike him, I was only there for a short time - 10 days. But it was long enough so that I kept laughing and saying "Yeah! I know what you mean!" as I was reading the book. This is just a damn good book - it's kind of like a Kerouac book without the tiresome, self-conscious "artistry." I don't think I could have talked to Kerouac in a million years - I'm not intense and hip enough by any stretch of the imagination. But this guy, I could really enjoy spending some time with him. And I think most people will feel the same after reading the book - really great!

There are perhaps fifty books about Westerners living in Japan, and perhaps fifty more about the West's encounter with Zen. Chadwick's book is by far the most appealing of these. His refusal to type-cast the Japanese he meets, his beautiful and disarming candor, and his unpredictable reactions to new experiences make this a wonderful book even for a reader who's never been to Japan, or one who has no particular interest in Zen. Everybody I've recommended it to has loved it.

I really enjoyed hearing all of the author's stories about living in Japan as an Amercian. What was also great was that he didn't just write about life as an American in a Zen setting, but also about the day to day beauracacy that he faced in Japan.

A journey into a world with some real "originals." Well written, great characters, a real love of the game. I don't finish many books any more, but I read this one right through

Tony Annigoni - house pro and part owner of the Q-Club in San Francisco. David McCumber - pool devotee and writer with some money to spare. These two go on the road across North America hustling games and looking for action. Annigoni plays and generally wins. McCumber bankrolls his bets and sweats on the sidelines taking the notes that turned into this book. McCumber's writing is strong, sometimes a bit too Hunter Thompsonish, but he loves the game and has a visceral sense of humor about the odyssey that could cost him a bundle. Annigoni is a great player, but the opponents are world class and life on the road in cheap hotels, late trains, and all night pool halls is a tiring exercise. This is a good book. Those who play a little pool will enjoy the tense action and will be able to follow the games closely. Those who just enjoy a book about a little-known facet of America's underbelly will be swept along. Those who liked "The Color of Money" will appreciate the reality check.

I just read it again--for the third time and I still found myself laughing out loud at McCumbers dead on the money descriptions of high level pool hustling. The players he describes are authentic, anyone who has met Keith McCready or Bucktooth can vouch for that, and that is what makes this book so entertaining, that it is an authentic glimpse of big time pool gambling. If you would like to see this in real life, just go to Louisville Kentucky during the first few weeks of January every year and check out the Derby City Classic tournament.

I found the 2e of "Principles of Biochemistry" by A. Lehninger, one of the most exciting books written in the field of Biochemistry. The book should be a treasure, especially, for undergradute students who have interest in the field. I have already adopted it as the main text book for the Biochemistry, a 300 level, course that I teach. Concepts are clearly and cleverly presented.

I found the 2e of "Principles of Biochemistry" by A. Lehninger, one of the most exciting books written in the field of Biochemistry. The book should be a treasure, especially, for undergradute students who have interest in the field. I have already adopted it as the main text book for the Biochemistry, a 300 level, course that I teach. Concepts are clearly and cleverly presented.

Lehninger's book remains the best single text in biochemistry, at least in English. A fine book for undergraduates, it is also the one volume that you may keep on your shelf for years to come, and the best biochem text for those whose primary specialty is not biochemistry (e.g. medicine, p-chem, microbio). No text is ever a substitute for the journals if you work in the field, but this book gives a sense of the whole discipline that is beneficial for anyone who may become too narrowly fixed on one topic. Its clear writing is also a blessing, both for those using English as a second language, and for native speakers with some affection for their own language

This is the third Christmas season that I have snuggled with my daughter and experienced this lovely story. Both of us have come to love this tale of "Tree", Sister Anthony and of the little girl named Anna. It is told by the chief gardner from Rockefeller Center, who meets Sister Anthony during one of his annual quests for the perfect Christmas tree for the famous New York landmark. It is with each of Sister Anthony's storytellings that we witness the beautiful tapestry that unfolds, showing us the pure love between a child and a tiny tree and of their journey through life. This is truly a beautiful and heartfelt story that will evoke tears of sadness and joy. I look forward to sharing this treasure with my daughter for many years to come and I know she will always remember it...as will I. THANK YOU JULIE SALAMON!

It is a good book and I enjoyed reading word for word. The story reminds me of the Christmas celebrations with my family in my country. I was deeply moved and brought back good memories as well as sad memories. I will recommend the book to anyone who likes to remember cherished times with family.

As the chief gardener of Rockefeller Center in New York City the narrator of our story has a colossal job ahead of him each year at Christmas Days end. Another year begins and he is already scouting out possibilities for the next years most perfect tree to decorate the prestigious Center for all to take pleasure in.

It is when the perfect tree is found on the Bush Creek Convent grounds that his job gets just a little bit harder. Sister Anthony unfolds a splendid Christmas tale that will leave the reader with a story you will want to share with the whole family. I can see this book easily becoming a family tradition. Heartwarming and wonderful a 5 star Christmas tale for certain. Kelsana@yahoo.com 12/25/01