The Big Book of Potluck: Good Food - and Lots of It - for Parties, Gatherings, and All Occasions

The Big Book of Potluck: Good Food - and Lots of It - for Parties, Gatherings, and All Occasions Review

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Maryana Vollstedt, Queen of the best-selling Big Book series, has put the luck back in potluck with more than 250 delicious, no-nonsense recipes. From Chile Cheese Wheels and citrusy Sunburst Salad, to Moroccan Chicken with Dates and Couscous and luscious Hazelnut-Cappuccino Cake, these crowd-pleasing dishes are perfect for toting to family reunions, book clubs, showers, church suppers, picnics, and parties galore - and have everyone begging for the recipe. With tips for streamlining preparation and suggestions for transporting treats safely, this heartwarming cookbook guarantees that dish will go home empty!

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Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities

Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities Review

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A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael B©rub© has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog.

Selected to showcase the range of public writing available to scholars, the essays are grouped into five topical sections: the Sokal hoax and its effects on the humanities; cosmopolitanism, American studies, and cultural studies; daily academic life inside and outside the classroom; the events of September 11, 2001, and their political aftermath; and the potential discursive and tonal range of academic blog writing. In lively and entertaining prose, B©rub© offers a wide array of interventions into matters academic and nonacademic. By example and illustration, he reminds readers that the humanities remain central to our understanding of what it means to be human.

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Toasts, Eulogies, Introductions, and Other Special Occasion Speeches

Toasts, Eulogies, Introductions, and Other Special Occasion Speeches Review

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Many books on toasts, eulogies, and other special occasion speeches offer you canned speeches that you can memorize. Unfortunately, that's not how great speaking works. Every gathering of friends, family, and professionals is different, and no off the shelf speech will work in every situation.

Having to give a toast at a wedding, or write a eulogy can be a daunting task. Everyone wants their toast to be as good as the one they saw on television, but most people do not understand what their goal is. Kent's manual on special occasion speaking and funeral oratory provides a step by step guide, along with speech samples, and links to online speeches and manuscripts, so that your speeches can be a moving and memorable experience for your listeners. Kent’s book is witty, readable, informative, and comprehensive. His chapters on toasts and eulogies are the best anywhere.

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The Neelys' Celebration Cookbook: Down-Home Meals for Every Occasion

The Neelys' Celebration Cookbook: Down-Home Meals for Every Occasion Review

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Pat and Gina Neely, the beloved husband-and-wife team and authors of the New York Times best seller Down Home with the Neelys, are all about lettin’ the good times roll.

It takes family, friends, and ample good food, and in their new book, they share their recipes and secrets for entertaining year-round, dishing up new spins on seasonal classics, and suggesting occasions to celebrate that most of us haven’t thought of ourselves.

Along with menus for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter Sunday, and every known holiday in between, here are all the fixings for a year of down home celebrating, 120 recipes including Hoppin’ John Soup and Deep-fried Cornish Game Hens for New Year’s Day; Smothered Pork Chops and Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes for “Welcome Home, Baby”; One-handed Turkey Burgers and Mint Tea for “Spring Cleaning.” The Neelys believe that life should be celebrated, holiday or not. With this mouth-watering collection of recipes you have everything you need to Neely-tize your table far beyond the holiday season.

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Graces: Prayers for Everyday Meals and Special Occasions

Graces: Prayers for Everyday Meals and Special Occasions Review

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Saying grace at mealtime is a time-honored tradition for many families and a newfound source of spiritual connection for others. Whether you're a master at giving the blessing or fairly new to this sacred art, Graces will bring inspiration to your meals and special gatherings.

Seeing the need for such inspiration at her family's table, June Cotner compiled a notebook of poems, prayers, and songs that she solicited from friends, strangers, family members, and ministers. She has turned her family's well-worn notebook into this elegantly packaged edition, which will complement your finest table settings.

Arranged by thirteen themes, this beautiful gift book contains poems, prayers, songs, invocations, and salutations by figures as diverse as Leunig and Browning, Emerson and Starhawk, Kahlil Gibran and Schweitzer. Whether you need a Sanskirt Salutation to the Dawn, a Gaelic Blessings, or ancient Chinese Prayer, Graces offers fitting words for every occasion.

Having a collection of original, traditional, and multicultural blessings makes it easy to share wisdom and insight with family and friends before meals or at special gatherings. The graces compiled here have been used by people of all religions beliefs, and special attention was given to how easily the words can be spoken by both adults and children.

Life if full of occasions when it seems appropriate to say grace. Graces contains 133 prayers, poems, and blessings that span the centuries and draw from many traditions. Bring spiritual focus to your meals by bringing Graces to your table.

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Putting God Back in the Holidays: Celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Birthdays, and 12 Other Special Occasions with Purpose

Putting God Back in the Holidays: Celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Birthdays, and 12 Other Special Occasions with Purpose Review

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Instead of the joy-filled celebrations that we build up in our minds, the holidays (pick one, any one) can often become stress-filled, money-draining, joy-less days of the year that we just "want to get through." And it is by our own volition that we have refused too many times to allow our holiday celebrations to be the spiritual experience they are meant to be.

This book has been conceived and designed over 30 years as Dr. Bill Thrasher has spoken to thousands of people, helping them realize the spiritual battle that surrounds their celebration of the holidays. Littered with practical thoughts, ideas, experiences, and stories, Putting God Back in the Holidays will help you and your family celebrate holidays and birthdays with biblical truth in mind.Instead of the joy-filled celebrations that we build up in our minds, the holidays (pick one, any one) can often become stress-filled, money-draining, joy-less days of the year that we just "want to get through." And it is by our own volition that we have refused too many times to allow our holiday celebrations to be the spiritual experience they are meant to be.

This book has been conceived and designed over 30 years as Dr. Bill Thrasher has spoken to thousands of people, helping them realize the spiritual battle that surrounds their celebration of the holidays. Littered with practical thoughts, ideas, experiences, and stories, Putting God Back in the Holidays will help you and your family celebrate holidays and birthdays with biblical truth in mind.

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100 Maverick Postcards: Pictures, Images & Thoughts for Each Conceivable Occasion

100 Maverick Postcards: Pictures, Images & Thoughts for Each Conceivable Occasion Review

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The collection of 100 Maverick Postcards presents 100 variations on the theme of visual and verbal pleasure. Many of these are based on Alan Fletcher's own quirky and inimitable drawings and watercolours, while the rest are all highly entertaining examples of wit, wisdom and games with words and images. This collection will have an immensely wide appeal. As Alan Fletcher says himself, these cards are for 'aunties, starlets, dreamers, cousins, aesthetes, pilots, scoundrels, vixens, clerks, vegans, attorneys, granddads, fakirs, stewards, brokers, conjurors, gremlins, bishops, hypocrites, tutors, batsmen, tycoons, doctors, hookers, swots, libras, girls, members, snorkellers, golfers, judges, matadors, poseurs, flaneurs pimps, printers, cyclists, parents, mobsters, players, neighbours, mandarins, jokers, managers, guards, chaps, journalists, matrons, blue stockings, atheists, beaus, ornithologists, clerics, romeos, strikers...' and any more you can think of.

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