Cooking with Grease is a powerful, behind-the-scenes memoir of the life and times of a tenacious political organizer and the first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign. Donna Brazile fought her first political fight at age nine -- campaigning (successfully) for a city council candidate who promised a playground in her neighborhood. The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, she committed her heart and her future to political and social activism. By the 2000 presidential election, Brazile had become a major player in American political history -- and she remains one of the most outspoken and forceful political activists of our day. Donna grew up one of nine children in a working-poor family in New Orleans, a place where talking politics comes as naturally as stirring a pot of seafood gumbo -- and where the two often go hand in hand. Growing up, Donna learned how to cook from watching her mother, Jean, stir the pots in their family kitchen. She inherited her love of reading and politics from her grandmother Frances. Her brothers Teddy Man and Chet worked as foot soldiers in her early business schemes and voter registration efforts. Cooking with Grease follows Donna's rise to greater and greater political and personal accomplishments: lobbying for student financial aide, organizing demonstrations to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday and working on the Jesse Jackson, Dick Gephardt, Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton presidential campaigns. But each new career success came with its own kind of heartache, especially in her greatest challenge: leading Al Gore's 2000 campaign, making her the first African American to lead a major presidential campaign. Cooking with Grease is an intimate account of Donna's thirty years in politics. Her stories of the leaders and activists who have helped shape America's future are both inspiring and memorable. Donna's witty style and innovative political strategies have garnered her the respect and admiration of colleagues and adversaries alike -- she is as comfortable trading quips with J. C. Watts as she is with her Democratic colleagues. Her story is as warm and nourishing as a bowl of Brazile family gumbo.

Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which coincided with dramatic social upheaval resulting from European exploration and increased travel and trade among Aboriginal peoples. European visitors brought with them varying conceptions of nature as sublime, as spiritual, or as a resource for human progress. They saw glaciers as inanimate, subject to empirical investigation and measurement. Aboriginal oral histories, conversely, described glaciers as sentient, animate, and quick to respond to human behaviour. In each case, however, the experiences and ideas surrounding glaciers were incorporated into interpretations of social relations. Focusing on these contrasting views during the late stages of the Little Ice Age (1550-1900), Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes. She then traces how the divergent views weave through contemporary debates about cultural meanings as well as current discussions about protected areas, parks, and the new World Heritage site. Readers interested in anthropology and Native and northern studies will find this a fascinating read and a rich addition to circumpolar literature.

Welcome to "Grease in the Skillet, Old Style Cooking" cook book. I hope you will enjoy all of these recipes as much as my husband and I do. The recipes in this book have been created by Erik or myself, or have been gathered from friends and family over the years. We have made each and every recipe in this book, and have found them to be easy or fairly easy to make, and have a wonderful taste. The aroma that fills our home is a plus as well, and a remembrance of time past.When thinking of the title for this cook book, it was from the remembrance from my own grandmother's kitchen, where grease as we call it, and Lard as she called it was utilized in daily cooking. A metal grease canister always sat on her old style kitchen stove, in the middle of the back burners. Every time my grandmother would cook her daily meals, she would add the leftover grease from fried bacon, chicken, and different meats to the grease canister. Every time my grandmother would go to cook a meal, she would pull the Cast Iron Skillet from the oven, where she placed it after every meal with the lid on top. She would take one of her big metal cooking spoons and slap 1 to 2 heaping spoonfuls of grease from the grease canister into the skillet, turn it on high to get it hot and ready to fry. This was back in the day when skillet fried foods were daily living.I love the smell and taste of old style, down home cooking. There is just nothing that beats the aroma.My wish is for my cook book to find a spot in your kitchen that will be an everyday go to in preparing your family's daily meals.May you have fun with each and every recipe, and remember the grease in the skillet.ENJOY!From my kitchen to yours, Eric Drain

Cooking With Grease NO! These recipes show different ways you can cook without grease, or cooking oils. Try these when you cook and you may be surprised of how much flavor you get out of the food. Also, you'll be preparing healthier food without having to change the taste too much. Try one recipe today! You'll taste the different!