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Carol's book on pasta sauces will please every palet. Easy to read and with simple directions, basic ingredience, a cook book for all to enjoy. I have tried most sauces in this book and all were delicious. I especially loved the Melted Mozzarella sauce with perciantelli, a sheer delight.From plain sauces to sauce with sea food, you will surely enjoy this book its for true "pasta" lovers.

The reader is simultaneously illuminated by darkness and light when reading Cocktails with Brueghel at the Museum Cafe. With sobriety, irony, sarcasm, humor, and sorrow, Stone skillfully carries us through universal themes: love and its absence, the arts, family and solitude, mortality and the body, and the inexorability of the dark. Each poem is an intricate labyrinth of phrases and rhythms, which entice the reader who hangs over the edge of meaning. "A shadow elongates/ and slips through the gate, a foreigner/ with no meat on its bones." (p. 30)

Dissonant rhythms, irregular syntax, and unusual vocabulary awaken dormant places lying deep within us. Verbal contrasts and evocative rhythms mesmerize, unsettle, captivate, and hypnotize. Soft, gentle words, like "a shadow elongates" combined with abrupt, sharp-angled phrases like "febrile ruckus" show us that Stone is an accomplished master of juxtapositions. The author has complete control of her universe of words which aim towards a vanishing point of solitude. Magnetic phrases draw us towards each poem's center-centers which often lead us to life's edges. Each word, a prop on the poem's stage, is placed to release precise ambiguity of meaning. Her enigmatic titles, "Emissary Shadow," "Sun in an Empty Room," and "The Art of Crackage" are as mysterious as they are precise.

Stone constructs an exotic poetic scaffolding of elaborate phrases infused with darkness. Taking us to the boundaries of the human condition, to "the vacated events we make myths of" (p. 44), her language to describe the dark is paradoxically bright and invigorating. Her title poem, "Cocktails with Brueghel at the Museum Cafe" is a carnival of language dancing over darkness. Some 400 years ago, Flemish artist, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom Stone invokes, mastered such combinations of revelry and death in his apocalyptic paintings.

As vibrancy and laughter share center stage with solitude and darkness in Stone's poetry, words, at the edge of life's nothing, summon life's everything. Readers who enter this rich, textural cafe of poems will delight in the multiple layers of meaning that continue to resonate when the poetry ends.

Miller is world famous for his Coyote Cafe. Here is his offering for drinks that are intense, flavorful, colorful, healthy, inexpensive, and non-timeconsuming to prepare and enjoy.

There are sections on Non-Alcoholoic Fruit Juice Drinks, Liquados and Lemonades, Coolers and Punches, Power Drinks and Fruit Smoothies and Fruit Juice Cocktails.

Try The Raven, a luscious concoction of pear nectar, black currant juice and sparkling water. It's refreshing, unique and packed with great flavor and color.

Also, tried so far these I would buy the book for alone: Liquado de Pina (Pineapple); White Peach Lemonade, Plum Cider Cooler, Mango Fusion and Lucindas Guadalajara Punch.

Ten Speed Press cookbooks (of which in my collection many of the best are) produces just outstanding style and quality: e.g. Miller's Red Sage, Tetsuya, and Charlie Trotters. This is in that same quality: great paper, photography and layout.

This will see year around use, especially in warmer times, but also in winter the smoothies can cheer one up.

Truly a spectacular cookbook, Mark Miller has recipes that will delight the senses and make you a hero at any dinner party. The ingredient combinations play off of each other and offer unique twists on traditional southwestern cooking. As one very familar with the southwest and it's cuisine, this book ranks as enticing and innovative. The recipes are foolproof and easy to follow, but you will need to adhere to the fresh ingredients rule-- no canned black beans, or frozen corn for these recipes, stick with fresh and you can not fail. Unlike some other cookbooks that feature regional cuisine, Coyote Cafe includes complete recipes that you do not need to tinker with and that are tested. So go ahead cook with Miller and howl at the moon!

Holly Days Café is a warm hearted Christmas story in the spirit of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. With the theme of redemption through love and understanding, this book should be read by all. The characters are well defined, and elicit the feelings of empathy and concern that make the book hard to put down. After reading this book I was filled with those warm and fuzzy feelings we hope for in a good story. Suemary W. Vance, M.D.

This book is a breath of fresh air for anyone interested in spirituality and health. The authors give you encouragement and wisdom for your dietary path. The main idea is - eat lots of fresh, unprocessed food. Pretty sound advice for anyone, but they then go into lovely detail about the spirtual properties of various foods. Eat well, be kind to your body, and the weight of the SAD (the standard american diet) will come off naturally.

My intro to M. Benedetti's work, that made him my favorite writer. Una obra estupenda, como anillo al dedo para aclarar la razon de mis vivencias de aquel entonces. A book for the dreamer, for the idealist, for the seeker of something else behind our truths. A book worth of being undestood and valued in any language; perhaps you can find its soul in yourself, too.

Jeanne Hilary is definitely one of the most exciting young photographers out there. No one reports on the human condition with more insight. Her subjects have energy, soul, and character. Jeanne can make a yawn or a backward glance look beautiful, and she can take the mundane everyday and make it heroic. Pay attention. You'll see her name again.

A group of eccentric travelers are stranded by a killer blizzard at a small cafe in the middle of nowhere for two memorable days in this delightfully funny and touching novel by Kevin Cahill.

Narrating the events at THE LAST CAFE is Morton Poom, the town's local famous poet who fancies himself a mystery writer (and a very bad one at that). Poom introduces us to the strangers who seek refuge from the storm, among them the wealthy and snobbish Victor Spoils and his gin-swilling wife, Muffin; a sweet English Scholar, Linda Love; and a grimy biker only known as The Thief.

Among the locals are Myrna Zeligman, the elderly, chain-smoking cafe owner; Raoul Goldblum, Myrna's Jewish-Mexican cook; Elsa, the Last Cafe's overweight and nosey waitress; Carl G. 'Bud' Moore Jr. II, a gas pump attendant with some damaged gray matter; Sheriff Bill Fish, the one-eyed lawman with an itchy trigger finger; Quiet Dave, enigmatic owner of Dave's Guns and Gifts (who hasn't uttered a word in twenty years); Ivon Poom, Morton's grumpy father; and Bob The Dog, a gentle Doberman who carries on deeply philosophical discussions with the narrator Poom.

Cahill's quickly paced style is peppered with witty and hilarious dialogue that briskly leads the plot through each character's life story, and intertwines new relationships that grow through the passing hours. We learn about life and its many crossroads, as the Last Cafe slowly transforms into a metaphor for a stopping point where important decisions must be made before one can continue the journey of life.

THE LAST CAFE will make you both laugh and cry as Cahill's wonderful characters reveal their fragile yet durable spirit.