My girlfriend gave me this book when we started dating. It was the first cookbook I ever owned, I had no idea what a gem it was. Since then my mother gave me all her Cajun-Creole books (about 25 in all), books signed by Emeril and Paul Prudhomme, none compare, this is without a doubt my favorite.

Everyone lays claim to 'authentic' Cajun-Creole recipes, recipes need to have this ingredient or that or else they're not Cajun-Creole. If there were such a standard (there isn't), then this book would have to serve as the measure.

My wife often suggests that giving me this book helped convince me to marry her ;-)

This is a wonderful book, filled with tasty, authentic recipes and history. The New Orleans French Loaves are the easiest, tastiest bread I've ever made. This book is a treasure.

No other Cajun recipe book compares to this one. I wanted Grandma's recipes, and now I have 'em! The Jambalaya and Fricassee recipe's are famous at my house.

I hosted a Mardi Gras party and lucked-out finding this absolutly wonderful book. The recipes are easy to follow and everything that I have made (at least a dozen or so)has turned out great. I am constantly being asked for these recipes so now I am buying several copies to give to those close family and friends who have mentioned that they would like to buy it. The best of the best: Shrimp in mustard sauce, Sun-dried tomato pesto, Jezebel sauce, Cajun-Country bread pudding w/rum sauce and Chantilly cream, and on and on.

I have prepared many of the dishes in the new book. All were excelent. The recipes were easy to follow. The Authentic dishes take more time to prepare than the quickie recipes from other books but WOW! what a difference in flavor. This book is a must for anyone wanting to entertain guests with Cajun-Creole flavors.

All of the recipes that I have tried in this book, from the staples to the exotic, are wonderful. Some of them (such as the Red Beans & Rice or the Artichoke-Heart Casserole) have become favorites to be prepared whenever I want to impress or just enjoy good eating.

Recipes include background information about how dishes came about, when they should be served and with what. They range from simple, everyday dishes to elaborate, impressive feasts.

If you buy only one Cajun cookbook, buy this one. Its the one to have. I'm buying another one because I wore mine out.

It's hard to imagine today, but there once was a time when the simple written word could send shudders of fear and loathing down the spines of mainstream America. And no one gave Mr and Mrs Front Porch USA the shakes more than Terry Southern. His novel "Candy" was banned and branded as pornography before it even reached our shores; his take on the military in "Doc Strangelove" earned him the label "pinko." But, like all great satirists (which he certainly was) know, "telling it like it is" often times means "taking your lumps like a man." And Terry took plenty of lumps, and humps, but never let his trials and tribs get in the way of "making it hot" for people. Although the mighty lions of 60's pop culture are now - alas! - all nearly gone, this volume of previously unseen TS works serves as an excellent reminder of a time when humor meant more than just being funny, and words alone had the power to give people the coniptions. And as "Now Dig This!" reminds us, while Southern took on all comers and suffered no fool gladly, he was a gentle giant who did so whilst nudging us playfully in the ribs - not poking us in the eye. "Now Dig This!" is a great addition to any modern humor library, and a worthy addition to the Southern canon. Bravo.

In these heartless consumerist times, irony has become debased. Thus the arrival of this anthology of previously uncollected and unpublished work by Terry Southern is not only a delightful surprise, but profoundly neccesary. Just as his 1967 anthology, Red Dirt Marijuana, proved that Southern was not just the great black humorist of the post-WWII era, but a great short story writer and essayist, so does Now Dig This affirm that status. No one has ever managed to quite duplicate Southern's mastery of so many forms: the letter as put-on, gonzo journalism, literary criticism, screenwriting and short fiction. Southern fans will be delighted at the inclusion of "Heavy Put-Away", a superb essay on Kurt Weill, and reminscences of Stanley Kubrick and Frank O'Hara. For first time readers, I have only envy. Now Dig This will be your all expenses paid ticket to a world of darkness and laughter. To paraphrase Ringo Starr, who acted in adaptations of two Southern novels, Candy and The Magic Christian, Buy a Terry Southern book today. Now Dig This is a very, very good place to start your spending spree.

Hard core Terry Southern fans and first time readers alike will find much to enjoy in Now Dig This. This anthology is a wonderful distillation of uncollected and unpublished work spanning the buttoned down cool of the fifties to the post-Reagan and Bush nineties. Now Dig This offers readers a chance to rediscover Terry Southern in his many guises: as a great short story writer, master of the zany epistle, screenwriter par excellence, raconteur (his memories of working on Dr. Strangelove and staging pranks with Frank O'Hara are worth the cover price alone), critic, journalist (doing Gonzo before everyone else), and all around grand guy. For those who have become numbed out by the coopted irony of our consumerist present, it is refreshing and inspiring to back to the source. To paraphase Ringo Starr, buy a Terry Southern book today.

Rush out to buy anything Terry Kay has written if you love prose that reads like poetry. He's a master.

Among my Southern cookbooks, this is the one that's 100% dependable. I haven't made anything that's not outstanding. An old standby like Country Captain turns out a triumph. The Pecan Chess Pie is the best pie I've ever eaten. And the writing is terrific. One of the best cookbooks I've ever seen.

I'm in the 7th grade and read about this book in our local newspaper. My mother bought a signed copy somehow and suggested (strongly) that I read it. I loved the story of the gypsy and the boy in the mill. This was a lot better than the stuff the teachers make us read.

I do not think of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" as the greatest novel in American literary history (Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" are the contenders for that honor), but it is my favorite American novel. Recently it has become the focus of civic reading programs, as it is now here in Duluth (obviously, it avoids the controversial language of Twain or the symbolic final image of Steinbeck). After reading the book this volume of "Readings on 'To Kill a Mockingbird'" will offer readers of Lee's novel some interesting perspectives.

After a brief biography of Harper Lee, there are four main units to this volume. First, there is The Critical Reception to the novel, which includes contemporary reviews from "Time" and "Christian Century" as well as a consideration from a book looking at Pulitzer Prize novels, which consider it to be a better-than-average first novel although not without "fatal flaws" (e.g., no realistic characters with whom the reader can identify). Second, there is a look at the Literary Techniques in the novel, which consists of three essays all of which look at symbols: the mad dog, the mockingbird, and racism. Third, is a treatment of Social Issues in the novel, covering how it teaches moral values, raises issues about gender roles, shows the difference between legal codes and human perceptions of justice, and a controversy over having the novel censored by a Virginia school board in 1966. Fourth, the Character of Atticus Finch is debated in four essays, two of which argue he is a heroic figure and two which take the opposite position. The back of the book includes a look at the Characters and Plot of the novel, as well as a chronology of the author, her novel and the times in which they lived.

For me the fourth section is the most interesting because it shows the importance of critical perspectives. Michael Asimov considers Atticus to be a heroic figure, worthy of emulation by real-life attorneys, because of his defense of a doomed client while Thomas L. Schaffer focuses on Atticus Finch's dedication to truth in the face of adversity which makes him not only heroic but noble. Then John Jay Osborn, Jr. (author of "The Paper Chase") argues Finch is neither heroic nor a good role model for attorneys because he values his own principles more than he does the life and freedom of his client, while Monroe Freedom makes the case Finch accepted the racism in his community and did nothing to stand up against it. This reflects the value of this collection, that it clearly sets up two sides and gives all readers something to think about.

Of course, this is all predicated on the fact that you have actually read the book and not simply watched the movie. Other titles in the Literary Companion Series focus on specific American Authors such as Maya Angelou, Arthur Miller and Walt Whitman as well as key works in American Literature such as "The Catcher in the Rye," "The Great Gatsby," and "The Scarlet Letter."

They crossed the oceans and continents and loved with a passion as spirited, beautiful and bold as the new Australian frontier they found...

Susannah King was the daughter of the English governor of the Australian colony. Nicolas Baudin was a French explorer. They found each other in a new land and forged a pure, passionate, perfect-and tragic-love affair.

Amid the turbulence and wonder of the emerging Australian nation, unfolds this towering story of a woman who found a magnificent love, a love that would tantalize all of her days and nights and shape not only her own life but the destiny of a nation...

'A breathtaking novel, one of those page-turners you cannot resist until the final word is read'-Columbus Dispatch *

'An Australian family saga as unforgettable as The Thorn Birds'-Book of the Month Club News.

from the back cover

Thanks to enviromental work featured by Watkins,Utah hasForthcoming new title- added a vast million acres+ wilderness area. watch for his "Red Rock Chronicles" coming by 2000.

After Flash and Filigree, this is the second weakest of Southern's books. It does, however, contain a remarkable short story, "Razor Fight," images from which have remained with me for more than a decade. After reading that Joan Didion used to retype Ernest Hemingway's short stories to gain a better understanding of his style, I did the same thing with "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and "Razor Fight," and then ran them through the Grammatik grammar checker, which ranks writing according to its succinctness. Both stories were ranked at the third grade level -- no small accomplishment.

Screw prose. Screw plot. This book is so damned funny! It reminds me of the war stories of Michael Herr or the drugged ut fantasies of Hunter Thompson. What about the woman who colors her hair blond, only to return home and have her husband mistake her for a mistress. What about the irreverent humor about Hoover trying some neck-crophilia on JFK's body. This is one of the most original collection of stories I've ever read. It's so hard to find stuff like this nowadays.

Should be required reading in beginning English and journalism classes. Book is date sensitive. Readers can explore the historical context and content. A very funny contribution to journalism.