This celebration of the tradition of the community cookbook is a collection of 200 recipes celebrating Maine's rich culinary past, delicious present, and exciting future. It features recipes from everyday families and home cooks to award-winning chefs and notable Mainers.

"This book is dedicated to YOU, a busy homemaker who gladly prepares three meals a day for your family, and who delights in doing it" on dedication page.

What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abbé Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolution by authoring the National Assembly's declaration of sovereignty in June of 1789 and closed it in 1799 by engineering Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état. This book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewell's insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyes's thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readers--educated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlet's highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyes's thought--and to the core of the revolutionary project itself. Combining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.

Hey Y'all!Happiness is Homemade, Y'all! introduces readers and cooks to our Alabama culinary heritage with a unique insight into our steeped-in-tradition culture of the Deep South. Pull up a seat around our table, and you will discover why these recipes are family favorites. Every cook, whether new to the kitchen or seasoned, needs tried-and-true recipes in their arsenal. These recipes are easy for the new cook as well as the accomplished and have been handed down for generations. They are tired-and-true!Woven alongside my recipes are funny, heartwarming stories featuring my own family who has resided in Alabama since 1818. From eating Sunday Dinner at the children's table, to soldiers coming home from the war, to making-do in hard times, this book shows how food is at the heart of our history. The Ugly Biscuit recipe is a favorite! Easy to make and delightful to eat - a proven hit! A perfect recipe to cook with your little ones, and children love to eat them, too! Add a little sausage gravy from the story, "Oh NOOO! Not the Gravy!" and you will have some mighty-fine eating for your family. I have handed out the Yummy Chicken Pie recipe over 1000 times and people let me know often how they enjoy making this "yummy" dish for their family and friends. Nanny Swann's Chicken and Dumpling recipe is the ultimate comfort food, and the recipe is easy to follow. Yes, you can make delicious chicken and dumplings!If you are hankering for something sweet, look no further than Granny Dera's Sweet Potato Pie or the Marvelous Mandarin Orange Cake, or Fried Apple Pies, or Old-Fashioned Banana Pudding, or No-Peek Coconut Cake. While Happiness is Homemade, Y'all! gives a personal perspective into family traditions in Alabama, I hope it offers encouragement to rediscover and cherish your own family's culinary traditions. So, get in the kitchen with these tried-and-true recipes and gather your family around your table. You will find out what we already know here in the Deep South- that Happiness is Homemade, Y'all! Blessings and good-eating to y'all, Danna Standridge

Recipes and stories from Alabama legislative families collected in one volume and published to commemorate Alabama's bicentennial birthday.