This is easily the best home baking book I have used. The only complaint is that she uses salted margarine but she does add that you should add a pinch of salt if you must use unsalted butter. Oleo is the traditional fat. The recipes are clear and easy. She uses self-rising flour in some recipes but also tells how to make your own. A few are clunkers but there are some real gems here: full of freckles pound cake, meltaway blueberry coffeecake, and devil's food cake are just a few great examples. BUY THIS BOOK!

The book that I read was To Dance With the White Dog by Terry Kay. It's a fiction, young-adult novel about an old man (Sam Peek) whose wife died of a heart attack and who now lives by himself. His children are constantly worried about him since he lives alone and there is no one to help him. But, one day, a mysterious white dog shows up at his porch door, a stray he assumes, and becomes his companion from then on. One strange thing about that dog though; she never shows herself in front of anyone except Sam. This book is pretty much about the rest of his life alone, and with his dog, White Dog. I really enjoyed this novel because it is unlike any I have ever read before. It is beautifully written and deep. Sam keeps reminiscing about his lost wife, the love he and her shared, and his youth. It's a very sad, yet beautiful book. "The reunion lunch was being served at Morgan County High School, and Martha Dunaway Kerr was persiding with dignity over the sparse gathering of old people, but he was glad he was not amoung them. If Cora had lived, if Cora had been with him, it would have mattered; without her, it did not." -page 156. This quote from the book is very powerful to me. It expresses Sam's deep sadness of his wife's death and how much he really misses her. However, this book might not be for everyone. It's a kind of depressing piece of literature; so some may not enjoy it as much.

I had to read "To Dance With A White Dog" for a high school english class my senior year. It was one of the best books that I have EVER read. The book is about an old man that sees a white dog that always "disappears" when someone else shows up. His family begins to worry that their father is seeing things. All is explained at the end of the book. The ending really makes the reader think about what old age holds for him/her. A very good book that everyone should experience.

My father loaned me his copy of To Dance with the White Dog and kept bugging me until I started reading it. Of course, once I started, I couldn't put it down. After finishing the book, I understood why he was so persistent. In a few more years, the main character in the book will be my father. I bought my own copy to read again to remind me when the time comes that my father is not a child and he doesn't need me to hover over him. Anyone with aging parents will benefit greatly from this book. I highly recommend it.

this was the first terry southern novel i've read. the frantic irrational tone this book creates is great. the characters are right on par with o'toole's "confederacy of dunces". as well it reminds me a bit of vonnegut, without the omniscient narration. 4 instead of 5 because it was a bit open ended and short. probably would be a better movie. but of course that was southern's primary strength.

A brilliant treatise on the question of identity, reality, normalicy, obsession and sanity. Is Dr Eichner obsessed with Treevly, or is it the other way 'round? Does it matter? Can't wait for the film version.

Terry Southern is a master satirist in _Flash and Filigree_. Fans of David Cronenburg's film _Crash_ will certainly consume this book in a single sitting... simply to follow the exploits of Dr. Eichner (who would have been a nice addition to the movie; I guess Cronenburg didn't do his homework). Southern handles the whirlwind, insancely paced novel with totalitarian precision and makes every word (regardless of how trivial the word may seem) count. Southern was doing the gig that Tarrantino is now doing in the 50s. Southern also is not fearful of the controversial and he boldly depicts the daterape of Babs by Ralph. The scene is trash, but, by God, he writes trash perfectly. Besides, such scenes put the bread on the tables of K. MacKinnon, and Andrea Dworkin (this scene would have fit nicely into Dworkin's theoretical manifesto _Intercourse_). The characters are unforgetable (in fact, they have inspired a few characters in some of the stories that I have written). In summation: this review is chaotic, the book isn't; buy the book or rot in boredom.

I loved looking through this book and dreaming of making these dishes - but then I woke up. I realized quickly that most of these dishes were beyond my means - not to mention my finicky husbands palate. Living in the lowcountry, I have access to the shrimp, crab, and various other seafood she uses. But being from a very rural area I couldn't find most of the spices she recommened (at least not without driving to Savannah or Charleston for them). If you are looking for a cookbook to use when you want to make an impressive meal - this is a good choice. But if you are looking for a cookbook with good downhome cooking like Granny used to make, well then keep on looking. In meantime, insted of slaving over the stove trying to cook these complicated concoctions - visit her place of business and let Elizabeth Terry do the work for you.

Everything in the book is great, unique, flavorful and simple! A family favorite -- everyone wants the recipie when I have dinner parties and they think I slaved for hours -- really most take a bit of pre planning and chopping -- some can be done ahead of time and then you can truly relax! Chicken, fish, pork, sauces, and other fun items to make you look like a pro!

I bought this book after a visit to Savannah and Elizabeth Terry's wonderful restaurant, more as a memento of my trip than a book to actually use in the kitchen. It has become one of my most frequently used cookbooks. I have tried about a dozen recipes so far. They are simple and foolproof, but taste as if you spent much longer preparing them. Her marinades are especially creative, and her fish dishes have all been wonderful. I am planning to give several copies as Christmas gifts this year.

I like the book quite a bit. It is very specific on directions and descriptions. Having been in some of these locations before I can tell you it brought back memories. The only flaw I found in the book is that it said little or nothing about the fishing that would be found in the lakes that the hikes would take you to or near. Many hikers choose their destinations based at least partially around what kind of fishing they will find along the way. It would have been much better had the pictures been in color, also.

This book was invaluable during a recent week-long vacation in the Mammoth Lakes area of the Sierras. The trail descriptions are clear and to the point. Each of the 64 hikes is described in 2-4 pages, with a quick summary of the statistics (distance, vertical), a clear map (showing trailhead, trail, and nearby natural features), and a nicely-written description of the trail and why you would (or would not) want to spend a day on it. If you're going to the area and want advice on where to hike, this book is the next best thing to a personal guide.

We have read many books aobut hiking in the Sierras. this and the companion Northern Sierra book are by far the best. Each book covers over 60 hikes and all are magnificent one day trips. Descriptions of scenery and trails are super perfect. Best book by far on Sierra hikes

light satire about the making of a 'Blue Movie." The world's most accomplished filmmaker decides to make a dirty movie using top-notch actors, excellent production values, and a great script. Personally if I were a woman I'd find the book somewhat offensive and misogynistic, since all of the male characters use the women for their personal goals, sexual and artistic. Politics (racial and sexual) aside, the novel's a light, fun read. The archetypes are all there - the pretentious, artsy director; the perpetually stoned, crazy writer; the sleazy, obscene producer; and the emotionally unstable actress. If you are looking for a light, breezy novel and are not offended by explicit sex and racial stereotypes, then give it a try. It's fairly funny. The dialogue is great. The prose style is in the bare-boned, minimalist style of Raymond Carver. This was my first Southern novel, but I think I'll try some of his other stuff, when I'm looking for something profane and funny. It bears mentioning that the book was dedicated to "the great Stanley K." It's hard not to think if the director in the book was based on Kubrick, with whom Terry worked with on Dr. Strangelove. (BTW - Terry Southern contributed to another seminal film of the 60's - Easy Rider, but you all already knew that)

Southern dedicates this book to Stanley K., for whom he wrote the Dr. Strangelove screenplay. It would have been GREAT to see Kubrick do an on-screen version of this wonderfully satiric novel!

An obvious poke at the Hollywood self-styled 'artistic' community, Blue Movie reads more like an excerpt of Hustler's Letters than a standard novel at times. The world's premiere director, for the sake of 'art', wants to film a porn flick that isn't merely gratuitous sex within a thin plot -- like the stereotypical stag film. However, as the novel unfolds, it becomes apparent to the reader that this is futile despite these grand delusions of art - the story of their escapades mirrors a stereotypical porn movie plotline itself - this book isn't merely ABOUT filming a BLUE MOVIE, it's a self-contained BLUE MOVIE in itself!

Recommended.

Easily Southern's best novel. I must admit I was disappointedwith CANDY and THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN, which I read before this book,.... but BLUE MOVIE delivers the goods with an ourageously sleazy andunfailingly funny portrait of Hollywood power brokers and their sexualhangups. All of the Big Players get their lumps: the Big Studio Head,the Pretentious Director, the Stoned Writer, the Ambitious Starlet,etc. The real strength of the novel is that Southern manages tohumanize his caricatures, thus rendering his satiric bite even morevicious. (Ya gotta love Sid Krassman --- truly a crass man.) Those whobelieve in the V-chip and warning labels on rock albums should stayaway, but for those who like a read on the wild side, BLUE MOVIE willleave you in more stitches than DeNiro as Frankenstein's monster.

This sexually irreverent novel by Terry Southern wouldn't have spawned a 1968 cult movie with Ewa Aulin had it not been for the catalyst that sets things in motion. Candy Christian, a beautiful girl who just happened to be born on Valentine's Day, writes a paper on Contemporary Human Love for her instructor, Professor Mephesto, saying that "to give of oneself--fully--is not merely a duty prescribed by an outmoded superstition, it is a beautiful and thrilling privilege."

And things go really cockeyed from there. A tryst with Manuel, the Mexican gardener, in full application of her paper, leads to the hospitalization of her father, and her voyage into the wide, weird, world. It isn't that she's missing much. Her father's a stodgy conservative businessman, her aunt Livia is a vulgar hussy who uses sexual innuendos as regularly as one blinks. However, her adventures lead her into meeting people who want nothing more than to rip the wrapper off and have a bite of that... candy. Oops! Candy, I mean. Others downright hate her. The poor girl has the best of intentions and doesn't want to rock the boat for the sake of preserving her credo, and hence lets them take advantage of her without knowing that they are.

Written as it was in 1958, I can see how it shocked America and Europe. Dr. Krankeit's assertion that self-gratification is actually healthy is a message to the repressed people of the world: "This mechanism you've contrived to keep your sexual lust a secret from the world, and from you yourself, is causing you more trouble than you realize." It makes sense--keep something bottled or under pressure for too long and KA-BLAM!! Of course, involving another party complicates things, because consent is becomes issue. But is it healthy and okay to look at adult magazines, videos, or computer CD-ROMs? Heck yeah!

Southern's writing is brash, profanely funny, and will cause cause conservatives hairs to stand on end even today, but his choice of words, be they adjectives, nouns, and slang, in describing sexual things is creative to say the least. It's what keeps this book afloat. What also helps Candy is the hapless but lovable title character-face it, there's only one decent character in this book other than her--and I can't help but roll my eyes at her gullibility. But I also feel attached to my heroine too.

Having read Candide first, reading Candy was purely accidental, a fluke, or perhaps a dare, but part way into the book I recognized its inspiration, and enjoyed it immensely from then on. It is truly hysterical, as was the original Voltaire. Candy, however, includes snippets of ideas from other Classics: read it for yourself to see if you can guess each chapter's parent story. I have enrolled in a course that requires the reading of Candide - I am recommending Candy to the instructor who has never read it!

Southern's tour-de-force follows the innocent, beautiful Candy Christian as she runs sexually afoul of a whole bunch of scheming, horny men. Since she is pure and giving, she wants to please them, but gee whiz! Are they ever strange!

"Candy" was banned in the United States in the Fifties and received its first publication in Paris. Southern and Mason Hoffenburg, an American poet, admitted that they had written the book primarily to make money, since churn-'em-up pornography was what Olympia Press chef Maurice Girodias was paying for. Of course, the book became so much more than a cutesy best-seller: it was the satire of the century, throwing wide-eyed, white-skinned Miss America into a den of the great bugaboos of the time (including a Jewish doctor, a hunchback, and Daddy!). Read it till its thunderous and pulsating conclusion.

Dennis Hopper has always struck me as a living relic of the sixties. A counter-culture rebel who never could quite come to terms with the Vietnam era government he so distrusted. Not surprisingly, his portrayal of "Billy", the frantic companion to Peter Fonda's "Wyatt" is the constantly racing heart of Easy Rider, one of the most important films of the late sixties.
Filmed the year after the summer of love had ended, Rider is one of the few true portraits of the cultural landscape of that turbulent era. The mellow Fonda always represents a generations quest for a simple kind of peace while Hopper, who also directed, is the fatal drive towards a futile end, always pulling away from the obvious path. They ride their custom choppers like two cowboys headed through the wild west. It's an obvious analogy but a meaningful one, their dangers were no less great as we find out. Although a notoriously frazzled production, great performances (notably Jack Nicholson), and a supurb use of some of the great rock road anthems of the day help create something fascinating, if quite dated. Of course, whether you lived the era or not, today the movie stands as a great historical representation of the mood of a country during one of America's strangest periods. Hopper's direction seems subdued by contrast to his performance (outside of a depressing and sureal trip and acid trip through Mardi Gras and a rather blunt ending) although perhaps less so considering his admitted, much longer initial cut, before leveler heads prevailed. There is an obvious fly by night amateurish quality overall but It's still a good film, maybe even great in certain ways. Cultural sign posts like this are rare. Rarer still to be made by the ones who lived it.

The scenery alone is enough to send chills down your spine. Add to that the killer soundtrack and Jack Nicholson's star making (and in my opinion, his best) performance and you've got yourself one hell of a film. Easy Rider (Directed by Dennis Hopper) is the story of two hippie bikers who take a trip on their motorcycles down to the Mardi-Gras festival in New Orleans. Along the way they stopped at a hippie commune, end up in a parade, and spend the night in jail before finally making it to Mardi-Gras. Where they proceed to have themselves a good old time with two [women] while taking acid.

The big three things that make this movie special are the scenery (photographed to perfection, by Laslo Kovack) the music. Which just plain rocks and Jack Nicholson's performance. Nothing against Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's performance but Nicholson steals every scene he's in. This movie is also a fasinating look at the 60's counterculture. Lots of drugs, great music, killer movie. Enjoy.

Greatest Road Movie Ever. A True Classic
Reviewer: A viewer from Minneapolis, Minnesota United States
The scenery alone is enough to send chills down your spine. Add to that the killer soundtrack and Jack Nicholson's star making (and in my opinion, his best) performance and you've got yourself one hell of a film. Easy Rider (Directed by Dennis Hopper) is the story of two hippie bikers who take a trip on their motorcycles down to the Mardi-Gras festival in New Orleans. Along the way they stopped at a hippie commune, end up in a parade, and spend the night in jail before finally making it to Mardi-Gras. Where they proceed to have themselves a good old time ...
The big three things that make this movie special are the scenery (photographed to perfection, by Laslo Kovack) the music. Which just plain rocks and Jack Nicholson's performance. Nothing against Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's performance but Nicholson steals every scene he's in. This movie is also a fasinating look at the 60's counterculture. Lots of ... great music, killer movie. Enjoy.

The author is an excellent chef at the Lake Austin Spa and Resort. In his cookbook, he details low fat/low cal recipes he has created and served to the patrons of the resort. He stresses the use of the freshest ingredients (having an extensive kitchen garden at the spa) to enhance the flavor of the dishes. He has compiled a collection of appetizers (such as Texas Caviar); his delectable and fat-free salad dressings; fish, meat and meatless entrees; veggies; and , YES, luscious pies, cakes and other desserts. The food is delicious, healthful, and believe-it-or-not quite filling. Includes tips on how to cut calorie and fat by, for example, making your own baked tortilla chips (super easy and tasty).

Recipes have nutritional content on each. Take home message stressed to spa-goers at Lake Austin Spa and Resort is...portion size, portion size, portion size!

Terry Conlan has taught several cooking classes in my area and I have taken two. His cookbook is an extension that I can have with me at all times. His recipes are tasty and don't taste "low fat". Whoever would have thought that lima beans could have been made into a delicious soup? Even my SON-IN-LAW liked it!

This is a delightful addition to my collection of cookbooks and one that I use often.

This is a botanical reference work on the trees of Southern Africa (mostly S-Africa & Rhodesia/Zimbabwe?). Its printing history speaks for itself. First published in 1977; second revised edition by Dr E.J.Moll in 1984, third impression 1988 (when 12 pages were added with updates on nomenclature); ninth impression in 1997. What can I add to that?

This is an identification key and reference work to Southern African trees, giving per species a short description, a distribution map and one (or more) line drawings of a detail, usually a leaf (sometimes a fruit, sometimes both. Upon occasion a tree habit). Names listed include full scientific name, in some cases synonyms, always an english name and usually an afrikaans name. There are close to a thousand pages of this, supplemented with over a hundred pages of color illustrations (both photographs and colored drawings).

Compared to some of the magnificently illustrated books on trees that are now available this work looks somewhat modest. However the absence of an abundance of photographs does mean that all these trees can be captured in a single binding of a handy size and weight, at a quite affordable price. [Might be due for an update, but I sure won't volunteer to undertake it. That would be a whole lot of work! ]