This is an
exquisitely beautiful book, both visually and textually. It combines one of the
author’s passions, food and cooking, with her other Jewish culture and
traditions.
The rich cultural
history of the community of Roman Jews, dating back more than two millennia, is a
story of cycles of ghettoized tribulation and resilience that Koenig tells with
depth and compassion through her own personal experience of discovery. Along
the way, the continuously evolving community developed a hybrid cuisine unique
in the world.
Koenig’s
reputation as a food authority is already impressive and is still growing. The
photography in Portico is stunning ––
no less so, the recipes! Whether you’re Jewish or not, you’re in for a culinary
experience you’ll treasure.
A leading authority on Jewish food, Leah Koenig celebrates la cucina Ebraica Romana within the pages of her new cookbook. Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchen features over 100 deeply flavourful recipes and beautiful photographs of Rome's Jewish community, the oldest in Europe. The city's Jewish residents have endured many hardships, including 300 years of persecution inside the Roman Jewish Ghetto. Out of this strife grew resilience, a deeply knit community and a uniquely beguiling cuisine. Today, the community thrives on Via del Portico d'Ottavia (the main road in Rome's Ghetto)-and beyond.
As
a mystery writer myself, I know what it takes to write a great mystery
thriller, and L’Etoile has it all.
Police
detective Nathan Parker is enmeshed in a web of crime in the desert Southwest.
While confronting human trafficking and drug cartels, he comes up hard against
his own law enforcement authorities.
Dead Dropis a death-defying journey into the bowels of bad, and
Parker’s ability to come through it alive is a testament to his guile, strength
of character, and, sometimes, sheer good luck. The thriller is tautly written
and straightforward with no added sugar, with a setting as unforgiving as
Parker’s ruthless adversaries.
You’re in for a rollercoaster ride, so hold on
to your seats.
Hundreds go missing each year making the dangerous crossing over the border. What if you were one of them?
While investigating the deaths of undocumented migrants in the Arizona desert, Detective Nathan Parker finds a connection to the unsolved murder of his partner by a coyote on a human smuggling run. The new evidence lures Parker over the border in search of the truth, only to trap him in a strange and dangerous land. If he's to survive, Parker must place his life in the hands of the very people he once pursued.
If you’re familiar with O’Brian’s masterful Jack Aubrey series of British nautical adventures, you’ll have a sense of where his inspiration came from in A Book of Voyages.
The volume comprises first-person accounts of exotic seventeenth-century journeys, whether overland to destinations throughout Europe and Asia or on perilous sea voyages to northern climes and the New World.
O’Brian has selected a handful of accounts that provide deep, unromanticized insight into life in those distant times, from extremes of unbelievable luxury to the horrors of starvation at sea. Minimally edited, we read the accounts exactly as their authors wrote them, with unadulterated original spellings and archaic writing style, all of which makes us feel we’ve entered a consciousness-opening time machine.
Never previously published in this country, A Book of Voyages presents writings by various travelers, annotated and introduced by Patrick O'Brian. Most are taken from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; O'Brian felt that, unlike Elizabethan or Victorian accounts, these writings were relatively unknown in our time.
On her journey through the Crimea, Lady Craven witnesses barbaric entertainments in the court of the Tartar Khan. John Bell tells us of his day's hunting with the Manchu emperor in 1721 outside Peking. An English woman in Madras gives us a detailed description of the extraordinary costume and body decoration of a high-born…
A packed house at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall.
Gustav Mahler’s monumental 6th Symphony, with its three massive hammer strokes of Fate.
The first and the second go by uneventfully. But then, the third!
Will Mahler’s third hammer stroke of Fate claim another victim?
Gerald Elias’s riveting eighth installment of the critically acclaimed Daniel Jacobus mystery series will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Blind, curmudgeonly violinist Jacobus and his devoted companions, Yumi Shinagawa and Nathaniel Williams, join forces with Branwell Small, a questionably trustworthy partner in crime solving, and officious DCI Christopher Mattheson as they follow every baffling twist and turn in a truly classical whodunnit.
