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Hometown Diners
Robert O. Williams
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Photography so personal, you'll want to leave a tip..........1999-03-10
Williams' book plunges you head-first into an era when people truly did make money "the old-fashioned way" ( they earned it with their sweat and tears). We sit as interlopers as we watch the toil of daily lives unfurl across the beautifully photographed pages. We sit at the counter while the waitress who has been at this particular diner way past her prime, exchanges small talk with the patrons. We can almost feel the cold rain against our faces as we view the water-drenched images of The Cheyenne (NYC) and The Highland Park(NY). We sense the simultaneous joy and frustration on the faces of diner owners who can't be sure what the future holds for their life's work. William's has taken us into a doorway that we rarely have a chance to enter; he has given us a license to the past. Through this book we have the opportunity to rekindle the memories of our childhood, teenage years and young adulthood...all at the same time. We remember what it felt like to sit at the counter with our Dads. We remember the hard formica tables against our ribs as we shared a ketchup-drenched kiss across the table. We remember introducing our "little ones" to the wall boxes of music that sit on the tables and watch in wonderment as they try to figure out "where the music comes from".
A Wonderful and Revealing Look at Hometown Diners.......1999-02-26
Robert Willaims captures the essence of our hometown diners in a beautiful and touching way. The photographs are beautiful and a perfect example of excellent photography. I would highly recommend this book to all readers, especially those who remember the nostaglia of going to your hometown diner. Don't miss this one!
Book Description
Hometown Pasadena is a guidebook like no other. Not content to simply profile another picturesque foothill enclave with ocean views and Nobel Prize-winning physicists, Hometown Pasadena takes the reader inside the real Pasadena... pulsating with arts, architecture, nature, science, food and international culture. Its 256 color-charged pages celebrate the savvy, the friendly, the smart, the fashionable and the historic in Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, Eagle Rock, La Cañada... in fact, throughout the San Gabriel Valley. Hometown Pasadena's five authors--locals all--have spent a combined 91 years eating in the restaurants and dim sum cafes, prowling the art galleries, antiques shops and flea markets, and discovering the gardens, colleges, architectural masterpieces, hotels, coffeehouses, museums, mountain trails, parades, libraries, children's activities, wine bars, boutiques, jazz clubs, lectures, golf courses, theaters and bookstores. But there's more. Much more. * Lively, engaging features, such as Six Caltech Smarty-Pants, where Caltech's finest professors explain an area of their expertise--in words regular people can understand
* Insightful Q&As with Pasadena's best and brightest, including actress/mom Jane Kaczmarek, architectural historian Robert Winter, earthquake expert Lucy Jones, philanthropist Jaylene Moseley, horticulturist Clair Martin and novelist Michelle Huneven
* A lovely and iconic cover showcasing work by acclaimed painter R. Kenton Nelson
* Forewords by Larry Mantle, host of KPCC's acclaimed NPR radio show AirTalk, and Larry Wilson, editor of the Pasadena Star-News
* In-depth explorations of the communities and characters that make the SG Valley tick
* Hundreds of vibrant color photographs
* Detailed color maps to the city, the region, the architectural walking tours, the Gold Line and the ARTs bus
Customer Reviews:
Locally made book blooms in Pasadena.......2007-10-02
Hometown Pasadena: The Insider's Guide Writer Colleen Dunn Bates, a friendly Pasadena woman nearing 50, thought she had a good idea: to put together an upscale guidebook about her city -- a kind of travel book for people who live there. And given the intensely local focus of the project, rather than dealing with a big New York publisher, she decided to publish it herself, producing it out of her den and delivering it to stores from the back of her car.
Almost a year later, "Hometown Pasadena" has not only sold 10,000 copies, it has also turned into a small empire: Local bookstores, both chain and independent, Costco and even a hair salon now carry it, and Bates is branching out to other cities.
Bates' formula for the books is simple: "It's about how to really live in a place, and be in a place, and understand a place, even if you've lived there for 20 years," she said recently. "I've never seen anything like it. My model was to not have it look like a Fodor's guide."
Bates' book taps into the growing desire to conduct the business of one's life as locally as possible, in an era of crazy traffic, expensive gas and worries about the effect of a sprawling lifestyle on global warming. As Sara Nelson, editor of Publishers Weekly, noted, books about local topics and niche themes are thriving nationwide, helped in part by digital technology that makes it easier to self-publish books with a professional look.
"I think people are interested in themselves. As everything gets more global, the local stuff seems quaint and personal," she said.
"Hometown Pasadena" features well-illustrated sections on eating and drinking, cultural offerings, and where to take the kids, as well as less-typical features: several pages on the Metro Gold Line, a chapter on public and private gardens, and page-long interviews with key local players, such as architectural historian Robert Winter and Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Sheldon Epps. Bates and her four co-authors also know enough to treat the city as the bull's-eye of a cluster of communities that includes Sierra Madre, Eagle Rock and most of the San Gabriel Valley.
Bates' decision to publish on her own press comes from her experience with the New York publishing world, beginning in the early '80s when she edited a series of French-originated guidebooks for Simon & Schuster...
By handling "Hometown Pasadena" herself, she was able to use local talent not only in its creation but in its sales and promotion. One of her co-authors, Sandy Gillis, has kept the book supplied at her hairdresser.
Even more surprising, Bates has gotten the book into a Pasadena Barnes and Noble, despite the difficulty of small presses reaching the chains.
Bates also handles her press' non-bookstore distribution, which for months meant hauling boxes of books into her Subaru and driving them around town.
"I did it all," she said, "and have the chiropractic bills to prove it."
Some of the secret lies in Pasadena itself, the author believes.
"It's a very literary community, very educated," Bates said. "We have, outside of Powell's, the healthiest independent bookstore on the West Coast. There's educational institutions and culture and art and architecture. And food, and neighborhood identity. It has everything that makes for a complete community: There's a 'there' here."
Either way, it takes the right balance of size, cultural sophistication and local roots -- and possibly insularity -- for a city to be right for one of her books, Bates said. San Diego, for example, is too large and sprawling.
"Pasadena has a healthy self-image," she conceded. "It's in love with itself, and that helps."
Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times
excellent guide to the joy of discovering Pasadena and environs.......2007-01-05
this is a fun guide to the wonderful city of Pasadena and the territory around it--excellent advice and comments about a city full of history, beauty and community
It's Funny!.......2006-10-24
I was surprised by this complete guide. It was so well written and amusing that I found myself reading it for fun! I thought I knew this town, but I learned so much about it's history, places I've never been etc.. I'm giving it as Christmas presents to my partners at work. I think they'll love it and it's great o have on the shelf for guests. X Chris
Pasadena finally gets its own guidebook! .......2006-10-22
LA/So Calif travel books have always given this gem of a city only a cursory glance. It's about time Pasadena got its own book! This glossy new guidebook is chock full of everything Pasadena; it is beautifully detailed and highly entertaining. I am a Pasadena native who thoroughly enjoyed reading about my favorite haunts and discovering new spots to explore. Highly recommnend this for visitors or ex-Pasadenans who want to reminisce about their beloved hometown.
Book Description
Hometown Architect presents twenty-seven Wright homes, and Unity Temple, documenting one of the architect's most influential periods of his career. The last chapter surveys eight "lost, altered, and possibly Wright" homes. More than ninety photographs of the buildings' exteriors and interiors are accompanied by descriptive captions, while introductory text to each chapter details the story behind each commission, addressing Wright's relationships with his clients, the importance of each building in Wright's oeuvre, and the characteristics that make each house unique. The endpapers of this book feature a map locating all the sites discussed.
Customer Reviews:
Houses He Designed in these Chicago Suburbs.......2007-01-23
Although he died in 1959, almost fifty years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright is probably still the most famous architect in America. Fifty years before his death, say from 1890 to 1910 he was living in a Chicago suburb and was designing a series of houses that are usually called his 'Prairie Style.'
This style was the first of his breakaway styles from the traditional European and East Coast styles to develop something that fit into his vision of the prairie. To be sure, sometimes other influences came into play, such as a short Japanese period.
While Prairie Style houses were built all across the country, the Chicago suburbs of Oak Park and River Forest are home to the largest concentration of prairie houses. This book describes 27 of his homes in this area. Most of them are available for tours. And in looking at these houses, it is hard to believe that they are a hundred years old.
The book is beautifully printed and cloth bound and supplied in a slip case. Another recommended book on a Wright Prairie House is Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House which describes the house, but also the effort that it took to restore the house ot its original form.
F.L.W.......2007-01-20
This is a very good book on the best years of Wright's work. It's a shame some of the houses were lost, but it's refreshing to know that so many have survived and are treated like the treasures they are. The text is highly informative and the images are crisp and well presented. I appreciated the guide at the back of the book, that informs the reader how to locate these buildings. Wrights work is so unique and elegant, yes he was a narcissistic, control freak, with a serious God complex, but his buildings are 100 percent his creation, he would exept nothing else. He made the clients use his designed furniture and his fixtures, but in the end, he was always on the mark, though many of the beautiful chairs look very uncomfortable, at any rate..good book, highly recommended.
Book Description
What's for dessert? A strawberry shortcake! A flaky apple pastry! A light soufflè! How about cheesecake? Or let's just have some cookies and ice cream! No matter what dessert you choose, you'll find the BEST recipe for it in this book.
From old standards like Red Velvet Cake and Old-Fashioned Lemon Meringue Pie, to quick and easy favorites like Apple Spoon-Ups and Lazy Betty, to new and exciting creations like Pastry Tulip Cups and Mocha Polka Walnut Torte, each of these incredibly delicious desserts will inspire a standing ovation.
Following the success of The Recipe Hall of Fame Cookbook, which sold over 200,000 copies in its first year, this newest book in the Recipe Hall of Fame Collection is sure to become a classic. Chosen from the more than 4,000 dessert recipes in our Best of the Best State Cookbook Series, each of which is already a chosen favorite from their state, these 318 recipes are the most popular, most requested, most memorable, knock-your-socks-off desserts ever!
Customer Reviews:
A very good and high standard cookbook.......2003-05-24
This is a award-winning cookbook, just picture it, a table filled with delicious recipes. Everything here is foolproof and yummy, it isn't very hard to make them. The price isn't so expensive, it's worth buying! If you're a desserts lover like me, this is a must buy! Don't be left out in the stardust!
A very good and high standard cookbook.......2003-05-24
This is a award-winning cookbook, just picture it, a table filled with delicious recipes. Everything here is foolproof and yummy, it isn't very hard to make them. The price isn't so expensive, it's worth buying! If you're a desserts lover like me, this is a must buy! Don't be left out in the stardust!
Highly Recommend!! --No Disappointments Here!!.......2002-10-23
I have dozens of cookbooks. This one, along with the original Recipe Hall of fame cookbook, is my most-used cookbook!! This one does not collect dust!! Impressive desserts that only LOOK like you took all day to make!! And the ingredients are not something you have to go cross-the-city to an highly expensive gourmet store for!! Most recipes are easy to make, easy to clean-up, and always a hit--not a dud yet!!
Recipe Hall of Fame Dessert Cookbook : Winning Recipes from.......2001-11-17
I thought the Recipe Hall of Fame Quick & Easy Cookbook : Winning Recipes from Hometown America was so good that I picked up this cookbook, too. There were so many delicious recipes that I had to try several over a weekend. Then I had to walk three miles a day the next week to burn off the extra calories! But it was worth it. Recipes for desserts adaptable to summer or winter menus, casual or formal entertaining, light or rich meal-enders, this cookbook has it all.
A very odd cookbook.......2001-03-03
I bought this expecting "hometown" style recipes, but some of them are really odd. One of the advertised recipes is "Black Forest Cake", ordinarily one of my favorites - a chocolate cake with cherries and a whipped cream icing. In fact, the name is a translation from the German "Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte" - black forest cherry cake. But the recipe in this book is for 4 meringue disks layered together with a chocolate pudding-like filling and whipped cream. No cherries or cake in sight, and not like any Black Forest cake I've ever seen.
I also expected a fair number of packaged and instant ingredients in a cookbook like this, and there are. But, again, a lot of the recipes are very strange in this. "Raspberry Sherry Trifle" uses store-bought cake, Raspberry Jell-o (??? - never saw that in a trifle before), and frozen raspberries - but goes on to include making home-made vanilla cornstarch pudding. Huh? With all those commercially-prepared ingredients, why waste your time on homemade pudding? Use instant.
At first I thought that I have too much experience with real European desserts and real recipes - but I'm just getting into desserts, so I'm not much beyond the novice stage. I'm certainly no pro, but I know when I see something bizarre, and lots of these recipes are!
Interesting recipes, but don't expect to find a recipe for your favorite [fill in the blank], because it probably won't be what you expect.
Book Description
The Shopper’s Guide to Washington, D.C. is an insider’s adventure guide to shopping that makes you say "wow!" Based on exploration, a network of sources, and personal missions, two long-time Washingtonians guide residents and visitors to the best shopping in Washington. Categories include: gourmet and ethnic food; beer, wine and spirits; unique clothing; consignment shops; jewelry; cosmetics; perfume; vitamins; toys; games; hobby stores; cameras; stereos and televisions; computers; furniture and home accessories; garden supplies; musical instruments; CDs and records; sporting goods; books. The authors also include a list of their top ten favorite stores and provide information about what else the neighborhoods offer where their favorite shops are located, so a shopping trip can become a full outing.
Customer Reviews:
Pleasant fast read - steamy romance.......2005-08-22
This book has a very nice flow -- it is a quick read -- very nice characters. The only negative -- I felt that the man (Austin) was a bit too victimized near the end. He insisted on the marriage and then spent a good portion of the rest of the book trying to talk himself out of it... Well the ending was very happy....
Best of the series.......2002-12-04
Back Cover description: MARRIAGE ON DEMAND. To hear Glenwood's womenfolk whisper, notorious Austin Lucas was temptation incarnate. Delicious as forbidden sin, he even tempted bashful, cherubic Rebecca Chambers. But, amid countless adoring females, he'd never notice the tongue-tied do-gooder. So who'd have thought that a stormy night and a blushing request would have Austin bedding innocent Rebecca? Or that, after the unspeakably sexy fact, he'd make an honest woman of her? Had the small-town saint led the sinner to salvation? Or would Austin merely give his child a name--and Rebecca everlasting heartache?
I wanted to give it 3 stars but because it is the best in the series, I gave it four. All the brothers and their half-sister get their own story. I've read them all, just not in order. Rebecca's character in THE BEST BRIDE, seemed somewhat stronger then in this one. Also she is in charge of a home for unwanted/orphaned children and can't remember to use birth control! And Austin, who brings his lovers to his home has no condoms anywhere? This just strained my belief somewhat. If you can get over this, the story moves along and develops with a nice pace and likable people.
a fun read.......1997-07-25
This certainly was a fun light read, a pairing of opposites that lets sparks fly. There was a cute plot including orphans and the hurtfull casualties they've endured, but that is deffinitely not the focal point. Its a good book for when you're looking for a break, i'd love to see a couple of the characters (namely Kyle and Jordan) in their own books. Take an hour off and plunk down on the couch with Marriage on Demand
Book Description
The men next door never looked so good!
Who are these local heroes who are proving irresistible to these just-passing-through women?
He's a sexy sheriff who's avoided commitment all his life -- until he finds himself captivated by a single mother with a tragic secret, in The Best Bride.
He's a former bad-boy-turned-deputy who meets his old high school crush -- and her three kids! -- in Father in Training.
He's an undercover agent posing as a captivating drifter -- not to mention the "husband" of his biggest, most beautiful nemesis -- in Husband by the Hour.
HOMETOWN HEARTBREAKERS:
They're homegrown and ready to steal your heart . . .
Customer Reviews:
Great stories about a great family!.......2003-06-21
This book has 3 great romances is it.
The first book is about Travis Haynes, the sherriff of Glenwood. He helps a single mom in distress and despite his past, falls in love with her and her daughter.
The second book is about Kyle Haynes, deputy of Glenwood. He is the youngest Haynes brother and when his high school crush (with her 3 kids) buys the house near him he sees his second chance.
The third book is about the long-lost half sister of the Haynes clan. She goes to Glenwood with a hired husband, thinking that her mother is dying. When she gets there she is surprised that the entire Haynes clan is there to welcome her and her mother is far from ill. She starts to fall for the hired husband who she thinks is a criminal but is really an undercover cop.
The things I liked about these books were that every character has some issues and they all fight to overcome them. Despite their troubled childhood they come together as a family and their love for each other shines through. I know that there are other books in the series and I think they belong in between these books. I'm not sure of the order they go in but I think there are probably one or two in between the second and third books in this 3 in 1 Hometown Heartbreakers.
Product Description
In Hometown Revelations, you will find out how America's cities, towns, and states acquired their names. Most of the major U.S. cities are included but you will find answers why they named their town Peculiar, Happy or even Monkeys Eyebrow! In addition, you will learn how the states aquired their names. Not everybody's hometown may be included but the clues and mysteries revealed of other communities may lead you to your own revelation!
Customer Reviews:
Monkey's Eyebrow.......2007-06-24
It's an interesting book. There are several stories about how Monkey's Eyebrow, Ky., got its name. The one in the book isn't my favorite. Find out more about Monkey's Eyebrow at http://monkeyseyebrow.org
Fun Trivia for your next road trip!.......2006-11-17
I always wondered how that town got that funny or unusual name. A great book for your trivia friend or for the next time you take a road trip. There is a lot of interesting and humorous stories in this book.
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