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Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the perennial best seller The Five Love Languages, provides an easy-to-grasp framework to help couples understand their marriage and seven practical strategies for strengthening or improving their marriage relationship. A valuable resource for couples regardless of how long they've been married, this biblically based book is a reference tool to help couples through every season of marriage.
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- Valuable insight for every couple, regardless of how long they have been married.
- Provides seven practical strategies to help couples understand and strengthen their marriage relationship.
- Includes a Marital Seasons Profile to help couples determine the season of their marriage.
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Refreshing of a New Marriage.......2007-07-30
This book is truly a blessing to I and my husband. We are always on the look out for books that will continue to enhance our marriage. We like to be pro-active and not re-active when it comes to enhancing our marriage. This book enlightened us tremdously on how to adjust to the seasons of marriage. It is helping us to do what's necessary to get the best out of each season.
Insight into Marriage.......2007-05-23
Gary Chapman has wonderful insight into marriages. This is a good follow-up to his Five Love Languages. It offers a simple, explainable reason for the things we all go through during the course of a marriage. This is a good book for anyone to read no matter what "season" your marriage might be in.
Strong Marriage Advice From A Wise Counselor.......2007-05-22
If you're looking for well-written, positive, up-to-the minute advice and counsel about marriage, here are three names you need to know: Dr. Gary Chapman, Dr. Gary Oliver, and Dr. David Frisbie. All three (you can search on amazon or elsewhere) are excellent writers with a gift for telling stories and showing you new ideas. "Four Seasons" walks you through the common adjustments that married couples make at different life stages --- showing you how to have a thriving union whether you're just starting out, or in the "third quarter" of your adult life. Very well written!
Barbara Sheldon, M.S.W.
I also recommend: Making a Marriage: 7 Essentials for a Strong Relationship
Four Seasons.......2007-05-19
I really enjoyed this book and other books by Dr. Gary Chapman. His explanation of the four seasons of marriage is helping me in my marriage ministry as well as in my own marriage. He explains the four seasons and gives strategies and tips on how to get out of the fall and winter seasons to stay in the spring and summer seasons.
A good buy.......2007-02-16
It is all too easy to get in a rut. I feel this helps to keep your marriage strong. It is a good investment. I bought it as a gift because I had it myself.
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Rites of Passage.......2000-10-17
Many years ago, I took the trail to the top of Mt. Whitney. Leaving my older, less confident companions behind in the predawn hours at Whitney Portal, I moved quickly up the trail. By mid-morning I was cooling my heels at Trail Camp, a campground of sorts, in a barren glacial basin at 12,000 feet. With another 2500 feet of climbing ahead of me, the trail lead off into a steep jumble of cobbles and boulders. I could see a notch in the ridge above, where the trail was likely headed, but it was not at all obvious how it got there.
I had no guide, but from training as a scout, I knew how to evaluate subtle trail sign, and before long, I was nearing the top of the ridge. From there, the final leg to the top of the mountain was much easier to follow.
A surprise lay below me. Looking back down the slope that I had just climbed so tediously, the trail was laid out like a map. I could see every switchback and turn. Invisible from below, but completely obvious from above.
Human life is more than mirrored in mythology. Each individual's adventure has a potential of mythic intensity and proportion. Our personal experiences are greater and more mysterious than we can often bear, without overlaying those experiences on the framework of mythology. But by properly framing our life's journey, paths once invisible become remarkably clear.
Foster has chosen the cycle of the seasons, and the wealth of mythos surrounding this cycle, as a model for the human life experience. And he uses his model to assist others in making difficult but necessary life transitions. His model, much more so than how he uses it, is the basis for this book.
Looking back, it's as obvious as the back of your hand - or my trail up the mountain - the truth of this model. Yet modern, mechanistic humanity cannot easily envision this model, because so few of us have actually made the transitions. We as a society, with all our complex tinkertoys and petty battles, are a world of children. We have forgotten how to grow up. Those of us that do, have largely done so by ourselves unaided. But for most of us, our core personalities cannot mature in a world that offers us nothing but a cacophony of media mainlining and pseudo-cultural posturing. There's not much chance of escaping this chaotic nightmare.
The vision of the "Four Shields" offers some hope amidst all of this. In truth, this is more than just a book describing a philosophy. It is a way of life - Foster and Little have been living it for decades now - which finally has found its way to paper. Conceivably it could be a blueprint for expanded consciousness. It is highly likely that this book was written with no thought of financial recompense. It was written personally for you - and everyone. For now the only thing I can say is: this book must be purchased, read, and if at all possible, understood. It may not change the path you are on, but it will make that path much clearer.
A both poetical and scientific approach of human change.......1999-11-18
Foster and Little combine modern psychological insight with indigenous native wisdom. Their approach is inspiring and yet down-to-earth.
Their image of the 4 seasons of nature is a metaphor for the seasons of human growth. Rites of passage are more important than focusing on the seasons themselves.
A helpful paradigm for healing and growth.
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A flower might bloom for only one season, but readers using the tips and techniques in Painting Four Seasons of Fabulous Flowers can enjoy some of their favorite flowers all year long! This book features:
-Three popular flowers for each season, including spring lilacs, summer roses, fall asters, and winter narcissus -12 step-by-step projects for all skill levels of acrylic enthusiasts -Traceable patterns, color charts and materials lists for each project -Quotations about flowers to inspire and tips on floral painting to carry that inspiration on to beautiful results
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Great help with choosing pastels, hard or soft, brand etc........2007-07-27
When I became interested in pastels, I took a dozen books out from the library including Mowry's THE PASTELIST'S YEAR, all of Paul Taggert's books, THE PASTEL BOOK, etc.
I found Mowry's books helpful regarding her use of color in this book to change the season of a scene - it's amazing. I learned a lot looking at her different views of the same scene painted to represent the different seasons. Very illuminating to say the least.
I thought thee pictures were small and could have been made larger for the serious student to see the illustrations better.
PRINT QUALITY IS FINE. THOSE ARE PHOTOS OF CONSTRUCTION.......2004-02-13
There doesn't appear to be any print quality issues with the photos in the book. There are several step-by-step photos that don't have some of the colors added yet because they are showing how the pastel sketches were made! See pg 81 for an example. There are also some extreme close ups which show the natural grain of the strokes to show how the larger image was created. These type of photos are exactly what any reader (beginner or expert) wants in an art technique book. The previous reviewers that didn't bother to read the captions of the photos should be a little ashamed if this is what they were describing. The book also has photos of the finished pastels. In general, the book and is filled with quality photos of pastel landscapes and appears to have good instruction throughout.
A Traditional Pastellist with a Modern Flair.......2003-11-13
Elizabeth Mowry has taken the time to establish a palate for the colors appearing in the four seasons; however, they were difficult to study since they were on different colored backgrounds. I especially liked the way she heightened the color temperature on some of her paintings. I wish she had used a greater variety of strokes. I recall that she favors the feather stroke, which was effective. She seemed to work more saliently with contrast, composition, color temperature, texture using traditional landscape themes. It would have been helpful to have a couple of paintings actual size so that I could have seen the "actual" painting. The cover has two flaps which could be used as bookmarks, which is a thought!
One of the very best !!.......2003-07-23
I have read this book twice and some portions three times. I find Elizabeth Mowry to be very sharing and knowledgeable and willing to show you how she achieves certain passages in her paintings. I had been going through a dry period, and this book opened up new worlds for me. I especially liked that she tells you to make small sketches, color sketches and use photographs. All these things were beneficial to me and I wish I could thank her personally for her very inspirational book. I have also given her book to friends and they all love it.
Poor printing quality detracts from a great book, won't buy.......2002-05-28
I bought this book and ws really disappointed when I leafed through more thoroughly and found MANY of the illustrations were out of focus, and one had a HUGH printer error where the image was blocked on one of the printer's colors.
I returned this book and have repeatedly looked at it at the book stores to see if a re-issued copy comes out that corrects these problems. My estimate is that there are 7-8 plates that are defective.
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epitaph for a peach.......2007-10-02
wonderful. when you read this work you can actually feel the soil, smell the grass, and taste the fruit. a greeat read
Not so much an epitaph, but a love letter to the land.......2007-08-08
I feel a connection with David Masumoto. Not that I've met him or anything - in fact, there's a good chance I never will (although I keep hoping that one summer day I can make it over to his farm to pick peaches). No, this feeling is based on an impression that we have both fought the same fight over different things, for the same reasons. It is also because he writes so poignantly about a landscape I grew up in. Mr. Masumoto is an organic farmer in the valley of California, and his story is becoming more and more familiar to me as I see this way of life disappearing across the country.
A third generation Japanese American peach and grape farmer, David Masumoto inherited the family orchard from his father. He also had the heritage of his childhood memories of how that particular peach variety, Sun Crest, tasted and ran with juice unlike the pretty red baseballs that have passed for today's supermarket peach varieties. Mr. M wanted to show the world how delightful an old-fashioned peach could be.
When he took over his father's farm, he resolved to not only continue growing his Sun Crests, but to do it organically. This would prove challenging in our day and age of cheap, quick fixes; moreover, it would test his strongly felt ideals. The land needed to heal and replenish itself after years of chemical fertilizers and toxic pest control methods. Masumoto had to take his example from research on other organic farming practices, planting wildflowers to encourage beneficial insect life and sowing "green manure" crops to act as natural mulch and compost. All this took time, patience, and faith that his hard work would eventually pay off.
Epitaph for a Peach is rich in sensory descriptions, philosophy, and nostalgic flashbacks. It is a picture of the way a farmer's life is connected to the seasons, capricious weather patterns, and changing market conditions. Not incidentally, Masumoto also teaches about the obscure history of Japanese farmers in the Valley - something that even I, native to Fresno, had little idea of. Reading this book was a slow, thoughtful experience much in the same manner that one slows down to savor a rich fruit. Recommended to anybody interested in history, growing food, or the vanishing California landscape.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
The Struggle Continues.......2004-01-24
I live somewhat north of the area Mr. Masumoto writes about - where the San Francisco Bay Area Suburbs collide with the San Joaquin Farmlands. The Peach and Cherry Orchards and the Sweet Corn, Tomatoes and Strawberries are currently holding their own - but like Mr. Masumoto's Peaches and Grapes, only tenuously, and with great courage. If you would like to understand not only how these people live, but who and why they are, you should read this book. It is both beautifully written and thought provoking.
Epitaph for a Peach.......2002-07-31
It is rare to read a book where the author works miracles with his hands and his words. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys non-fiction but finds it dry, without humanity. David Mas Masumoto is anything but dry. His land may be at times, but his poetic prose is anything but. His relationship with his family, his family's farm and nature is a rare combination. I highly recommend this read.
Best book about farming I've ever read.......2001-06-09
"Epitaph" is a gem and a masterpiece. Masumoto is a good farmer, a truly dedicated family man and a gifted writer. The story is in part about his love affair with a wonderful variety of peach.
City people will know why supermarket peaches disappoint and country people will recognize the sad story of a farmer who, the harder he tries the more frustration he finds. The peaches you find in the supermarket are there because the consumer/supermarket/broker/ value "shelf life" more than flavor.
Peaches don't travel well and they don't last long. The farmer must choose the right variety, prune it exactly the right way at exactly the right time, fertilize and water at the right time, pray fervently for the right weather conditions.
Only then, if the peach absorbs enough sun to fully mature, will it have the full bursting ambrosial flavor a peach should have. Only the sun can make a peach sweet and flavorful. Most really delicious peaches won't last more than three or four days after they are picked.
A good peach should be eaten as it is right out of hand. Not put in a pie or jam or cake. Only a good farmer can grow a perfect peach and no supermarket want them. Where is the answer?
You'll fall in love with farming and weep a bit as you read the Masumoto family story. Perhaps you won't fully appreciate what today's farmers are up against, but this book will give you more insight than you ever had before.
If you are from a farming family you will fully appreciate every word of this beautiful story of a San Joaquin Valley farm.
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To save their marriage and their sanity, the author and his wife sold their belongings, packed up their two-year-old son, and moved to a rundown farmhouse in the country without any plans past surviving the year. Living as though it were the year 1900, they struggled with recalcitrant livestock, garden-destroying bugs, rain that would not come, and their own insecurities, to ultimately discover a sense of community and a sense of themselves that changed not only their marriage, but the entire Swoope, Virginia community. Lyrically told and powerfully evocative, this memoir for the modern age deals with the growing sense of disassociation and yearning to escape the frenetic pace of daily life in today’s society.
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Excellent Read.......2007-10-13
See You in a Hundred Years is an inspiring story about a young family ready to leave the modern world. Their frustrations, joys, and new social connections are revealed in a heartfelt way. Their journey gave me gratitude for modern conveniences taken for granted, and respect for the daily struggles of those who lived 100 years ago. This book is well-written and engaging to the last page!
Quite an experiment!.......2007-09-22
I found this book very engaging, hard to put down. I wish that Logan gave an update about their return to the future at the end of the book. I did find one thing troubling, I have hard time believing that their son (age 2) became ill just once and never required a visit to the doctor. Also, the fact that Logan was so unsure about his wife using a car and a phone when she had a medical problem. An experiment is one thing health should be paramount!
Engaging yet oddly unsatisfying.......2007-08-22
It's difficult to know how to rate this book. It left me feeling somewhat ambivalent. Make no mistake, it's a fun, fast, easy summer read. But, I was hoping it would offer so much more in terms of insights into our modern dependence on technologies that perhaps aren't really so important. Maybe it's unfair of me to expect so much out of what amounts to a tale of living for one year as an experiment.
This book is so similar to Eric Brende's "Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology" that it's difficult not to almost treat them as different tales of the same experience. In both books, a young couple elects to live without modern technology for one year as a way of testing whether they can deal with the ramifications of rejecting fast-paced modern society and all that it entails. In Brende's book he and his wife go to live amongst an old order sect that is even stricter than the Amish. In Ward's book, he and his wife Heather embark on an adventure wherein they buy an old farm and vow not to use any (or much) technology that wasn't in existence in 1900. It winds up amounting to almost the same thing in practical terms.
Both couples try this knowing that it's merely an experiment that they have to put up with for one year. Both books are told from an almost chauvanistic male standpoint. Neither book details all that much about specific technology that they do use. (Brende gets into minor descriptions about some of the machinery that the Amish who aren't Amish use, but it's minimal. Ward pretty much ignores or glosses over the finer points of most of the tools he uses.) Neither book gives any real voice to the woman in the couple. Neither book serves as a how-to guide for anybody wishing for whatever reason to live off the grid or adapt to a more simple lifestyle. Both authors are very candid about their own failings, misjudgments and foibles. Both are easy and fun to read.
Perhaps it's unfair of me to have been expecting so much more. But, it seems that such an adventure could have greatly benefited from deciding to document it before the process began, rather than as an afterthought much later. I don't know what either Brende or Ward had in mind going into their experiments. Maybe they were so sick of modern technology that they simply wanted a working vacation in which they didn't have to deal with documenting their progress as they went. Certainly the level of farm work that they wind up doing might make documenting it daily to be an arduous task easily put off until much later. That's easy enough to understand.
I'm somewhat harder on Logan Ward precisely because he's a writer. He could have approached this whole experiment as doing research for a book, and documented their progress along the way, and I feel that the book would be far more substantive and enriching. For whatever reason, he didn't take that approach. So, we're left with a book that's intriguing but not as educational or insightful as it might have been. It's still a good story.
What's harder to understand are little things like Logan Ward's decision not to take pictures. Photography was well established in the mid 1800's and the Civil War was well documented photographically. By 1888 Kodak had introduced a user friendly box camera and in 1900, precisely the year that the Ward's chose to emulate, Kodak introduced the Brownie camera which was the first truly mass market camera in history. Granted, with only 150,000 produced, a subsistence farmer in VA might not have had access to one. But having a few select pictures of their experiment, done in period style would certainly not be bending the rules any more than travel by car or using the telephone, both of which Logan's wife Heather eventually does out of necessity before their year is done.
That brings me to something else. I find it odd that both Ward and Brende have momentary periods where they seem like they don't really take their bride's health all that seriously. When his wife Heather is having major abdominal pains, Ward, at one point admits that he wondered whether they were serious enough to compromise their little experiment in even a fairly minor way even though they'd left phone service on in case of just such emergencies. I'm certainly not criticizing the decisions, but both case studies show the need for having a good set of agreements in advance on just what is acceptable in a variety of situations. I guess what bothered me about that particular situation in this book is not how it was resolved, but rather the attitude that Logan wasn't really going to lift a finger to help his wife.
Another thing that's bothersome in both Ward's tale and in Brende's incredibly similar tale is how utterly dependent they were on outside help. Were it not for the kindness of others who didn't necessarily play by the same self-imposed rules, neither experiment would've ended well. In that regard, neither winds up being true to self-sufficiency, though both try mightily. Perhaps that's the real take-home message is that it takes a community to be even marginally self-sufficient. That's not a bad message and to that end I commend both Ward and Brende for helping others to see that point.
I'll end with one valuable tid-bit that I did glean from "See You in A Hundred Years". That is that going into winter Logan mentions having put up 350 canned jars of produce to last them through the winter. Come spring time, he still has enough left to last the required time and reflects that it was enough canned goods, supplemented with dried goods, to get he and his wife and toddler through the winter. That was precisely the kind of information I was seeking. I would've loved to know how many cords of wood they used for heating and cooking. I would've loved to know more insights about cooking on a wood stove, and canning in such prodigious amounts. I would have loved to know more about just what is involved in making goat cheese, etc. I feel like he missed quite a few opportunities to share tips and insights gleaned from performing such farm duties in real life as opposed to simply reading about them in hobby books. But, this is not a how-to documentation so much as just a tale of how one man reflects on one experiment and the things he and his wife learned about each other and their relationship to society as a result.
A wonderful trip back in time.......2007-08-10
I found this book through the Library Journal, and picked it up immediately. I have always loved the documentaries where modern people attempt to live in past "times" such as the 1940's, 1900's, or even Regency England. This book went into detail of the actual experience, instead of just showing the conflict and drama that the television shows often detail (rather than displaying the monotony and plain hard work it took to live back then). I found the writing to be highly enjoyable and amusing, and actually felt like I was right there along with them, struggling to prove that they can survive using only 1900's products and methods. I would have loved for this book to have been twice as long, and to let us know what happened after the project was over! Great read, I would recommend it to anyone!
Entertaining!.......2007-08-09
I don't know how i found out about this book, but after reading the reviews i promptly ordered and even more promptly read it - couldn't put it down. The author is a good writer (professional). I laughed out loud often. Kudos to this couple for their 12 month return to the year 1900, thereby providing us with valuable helps for basic survival, if and when ever needed. I should say, "when", because i think we will need these skills.
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Four Seasons of Life
Sonny Boy
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"Don't struggle with life, just go with the flow," says the author of Four Seasons of Life. "For life is a journey, enjoy the ride."
It took the better part of a lifetime for "Sonny Boy" to understand the wisdom of this philosophy and live by it. Plagued by health problems and depression from an early age, he turned to alcohol for comfort. Only when he learned to be honest—with himself as well as others—could he begin to accept who he was. As we follow Sonny Boy on his long journey, we too come to realize that all of us belong, no matter who we are.
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A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture
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In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse print sources from family genealogical registers to seed catalogs, the four seasons appear and reappear as a theme in American culture.
In this richly illustrated book, Michael Kammen traces the appeal of the four seasons motif in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Its symbolism has evolved through the years, Kammen explains, serving as a metaphor for the human life cycle or religious faith, expressing nostalgia for rural life, and sometimes praising seasonal beauty in the diverse American landscape as the most spectacular in the world. Kammen also highlights artists' and writers' shift in attention from the glories of seasonal peaks to the dynamics of seasonal transitions as American life continued to accelerate and change through the twentieth century.
Few symbols have been as pervasive, meaningful, and symptomatic in the human experience as the four seasons, and as Kammen shows, in its American context the annual cycle has been an abundant and abiding source of inspiration in the nation's cultural history.
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- The best book on really authentic Italian cooking
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The Four Seasons of Italian Cooking: Harvest Recipes from the Farms and Vineyards of the Italian Countryside
A. J. Battifarano , and
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The Four Seasons of Italian Cooking is a handsome reminder of the simplicity and splendor of rustic Italian food. To demonstrate the regional nature of Italian cooking, A.J. Battifarano traveled around Italy and met with fascinating characters in Tuscany, Umbria, the Piedmont, Lombardy, Campania, and Apulia. In each region, we learn the story of families and individuals involved in the food industry, perhaps as a farmer or as the owner of an inn or restaurant. Meet Franco and Esther Carnero, a couple who restored an old house in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, developed a vineyard and garden, and then opened a small inn, La Luna e i Falo, or the Moon and the Bonfires. Here Esther serves dishes based on old, local recipes (which she shares with us), including roast veal accompanied by a sweet red pepper and fig sauce, and a hazelnut cake made with the locally grown crop of nuts. Throughout this Italian adventure, we are introduced to satisfying, yet simple to prepare, dishes. Misticanza is a splendid example--a dish of dark leafy greens, just boiled and simply dressed with extra virgin olive oil and fresh lemon juice. In addition to 125 charming recipes, and personal narratives, Battifarano also presents expert advice for storing and preparing fruits and vegetables from the four seasons. In true Italian fashion, it is the flavor of each ingredient that matters. This means the freshest ingredients are required for reproducing the profoundly satisfying flavors of Italy's farmhouse cooking. --Dana Jacobi
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absolutely amazing book.......2007-08-22
As Catalans we love cooking and (specially) eating. This book is just the perfect balance between exquisite recipes, excellent presentation and informative reading. Do not miss the chance to get it
Authentic and Outstanding.......2003-09-28
I just returned from a lovely stay at La Luna e i Falo, and enjoyed six nights of impeccable meals prepared by Elena and Franco. Our meals included all of the recipes from this cookbook, and I must say, not one of them disappointed! I was able to read this cookbook while at the farm, and made a note to immediately try to find it when I returned home. Amazon is the only place to get it, since it is now out of print. It was only released in America, so you can't even find an Italian version of the book. The other recipes from other cooks featured in the book look equally as good. You can't get more authentic, regional recipes than those that are found here. I highly recommend it!
Most unusual Italian cookbook AND travellog.......1999-08-12
I love this book. It is the most unusual cookbook.I have travelled the Italian Countryside many times and this book reflects much of its uniqueness. I bought four copies for friends.
The best book on really authentic Italian cooking.......1998-11-30
In this world inundated with tomes devoted to Italian cooking, this wonderful book stands out. The author spent years researching, collecting and testing authentic, seasonal farmhouse recipes (from all over the country) made with only the freshest ingredients. (The recipes are full-proof!!) This is one of the few books that allows everyone to make some of the most appetizing Italian dishes--just as the Italians do. Everything is explained in detail--from ingredients to techniques to customs to mail-order sources--in one of the most complete books ever written on the subject. And if this weren't enough, the flavor of the food is beautifully captured in some of the most exquisite photographs ever taken of Italy and its food. This book is a MUST for anyone who likes to cook and/or eat the most mouth-watering Italian cuisine!!
a terrific cookbook, travel book and picture book all in one.......1998-11-19
This is a great Italian cookbook, very different from most of the cookbooks you see. Not only does it have great recipes but it also tells great stories about all the various farms the authors visit. And it also tells you how you can visit the farms yourself. The pictures in particular are very interesting. They are not the usual slick shots. It seems like they were all done on location and they have a feel of food photo-journalism. This book has great recipes and great heart and soul.
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In a remote canyon in northern New Mexico the early morning stillness is broken by voices chanting praises to the Lord. And thus begins the daily cycle in the Godcentered life and search of the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert.Seeking God is a monastic tapestry. The daily life of the monks is interwoven with the seasonal changes and celebrations and the candid words of the monks as they speak of their life their hopes and doubts their hardships fears and joys their prayer. Weaving this tapestry together are the hauntingly beautiful chants songs of praise and reverence that echo through the darkness before dawn throughout the day through the solemnity of Vespers in the evening and Compline at night. The majestic beauty of the environment captured in every season reflects a peace and tranquility that becomes an integral part of this monastic tapestry. The high red rock walls of the canyon where eagles fly cradle the valley whose stillness is broken only by the flowing waters of the Chama River and the winds that occasionally funnel through. Seeking God presents the ongoing process of the monastic way through the words and activities of these Benedictine monks as they move through the day and through the seasons in their search for God through prayer work study and song.
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