When rain spoils her plans for sledding, Mary wishes that Alaska were not her homeland, but her father shows her, through jars of salmon, seaweed, berries, and more in their pantry, just how special a place it is.

Immerse yourself in deepest darkest Winter with this sumptuous culinary tome celebrating our coolest season by internationally award-winning cookbook author, Janice Sutton.Ignite your tastebuds as you embark on a thrilling gastronomic rollercoaster ride that takes you from the pulsating dark heart of Dark Mofo's spectacular Winter Feast, to the seductive cocktails and luxuriant dishes unearthed in Hobart's 'Dark Fringe', created in honour of Tasmania's iconic festival of darkness. The Dark Fringe is where dark liaisons and dark dalliances are divined, where dark distilleries with dark histories are deliberated, dark tales told, unholy cocktails concocted and dark dinners deconstructed; A place where sinners are winners and dark feasts and midnight banquets are born.Descend into 'Dante's Inferno', and resurrect your corpses with a cornucopia of cocktails created by a legion of Tasmania's best distilleries and bars. Indulge your sweet cravings with a banquet of dark and delectable delights, or carouse your 'inner glutton' with a smorgasbord of succulent slow-cooked and fire-cooked savoury dishes inspired by an array of cuisines from around the world.Master the flames with fire-cooking tips from Mona's Heavy Metal Kitchen, and learn how to perfect the perfect Martini.Browse the bountiful seasonal produce on the winter table and discover the auspicious foods indigenous cultures around the world love to eat on the darkest, longest night of the year.Brimming full of stunning images, this beautiful ode to the 'Southern Hemisphere' Winter contains more than 180 scrumptious recipes - the majority, unique and especially recreated for this book - including recipes from Mona's Heavy Metal Kitchen, inspired chef collaborations from the last Dark Mofo Winter Feast, plus a bounty of recipes from a bevy of Tasmania and Australia's most lauded chefs and food producers. You will also find a scattering of sublime chocolatey desserts from Tasmania's Chocolate Winter Fest, and delicious wintery dishes shared by the WinterWild Festival in Apollo Bay Victoria, and the Winter Fire and the Feast of the Beast Festivals in New South Wales. Let the Winter Banquet Begin!

Find comfort with Mary's easy home cooking. In this brand new tie-in to a new BBC Two series, Mary Berry shares over 120 of her ultimate food recipes, all made simply and guaranteed to get smiles around your kitchen table. Mary's utterly reliable recipes are perfect for days when you want tasty and dependable food. Come home to the delicious simplicity of a Whole Roasted Squash with Garlic and Chilli Butter, or a warming Spicy Sausage and Red Pepper Hot Pot. Treat your family to Slow Roast French Lamb with Ratatouille, and spoil everyone with a decadent Frangipane Apple and Brioche Pudding. Featuring all the recipes from Mary's new series, plus many more fresh from Mary's kitchen, every single dish is accompanied by a photography of the finished food, so you know exactly what you're making. Each recipe includes Mary's trademark no-nonsense tips and techniques for getting ahead, and has been rigorously tested to make your cooking stress-free.

What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? “This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn: The rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.

An account of one woman's life in the West during the second half of the nineteenth century from growing up on the Montana mining frontier to her ascent to young womanhood on a farm in southern California.

Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State is all Floridian, telling the grand and sometimes crazy story of the twenty-seventh state through the eyes of one of its native daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets and she's ready to tell them. Like the time her cousin state Senator Luther Tucker wrapped his Caddy around a tree, allegedly with a jug of moonshine on the seat next to him. Or how cousin Susan Branford was given an African girl for her eighth birthday. Or the time when cousin Enid Broward was made the May Queen of 1907, even though her daddy the governor shocked the state by trying to drain the entire Everglades. Roberts' ancestors helped settle Florida, kill off its pesky Indians, enslave some of its inhabitants, clear its forests, lay its train tracks, and pave its roads, all the time weaving themselves into the very fabric of this dangling chad of a state. With a storyteller's talent for setting great scenes, Roberts lays out the sweeping history of eight geberations of Browards and Bradfords, Tuckers anf Robertses, even as she Forest Gumps them into situations with more historically familiar names. Whether it's the American court of Catherine de Médicis, the Tallahassee court of Katherine Harris, Henry Flagler's boardroom -- not to mention his bedroom -- or Jeb Bush's statehouse, you're likely to find a branch or a root of the Roberts family growing entangled nearby. Starting in the recent past with the botched presidential election of 2000, Roberts introduces the many sides of the debate, coincidentally peopled with cousins both kissing and close. She then goes back to Florida's first inhabitants, showing how this alluring peninsula many called a paradise played a role in the destiny of those who settled there. Following their colorful progress up to the present, she renders them all with a deep, familial affection. Florida has forced itself into the collective American unconscious with its messed-up elections, anthrax scares, shark attacks,boat lifts, snowbirds, and the Bush dynasty. While exposing the real people whom Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard have been fictionalizing for years, Dream State ultimately reveals the cogs and wheels that make the state tick.

Shows what life was like in the late nineteenth century for a poor Irish-American family.