Sweet Greeks

Author : Ann Flesor Beck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052285
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Greeks written by Ann Flesor Beck and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gus Flesor came to the United States from Greece in 1901. His journey led him to Tuscola, Illinois, where he learned the confectioner's trade and opened a business that still stands on Main Street. Sweet Greeks sets the story of Gus Flesor's life as an immigrant in a small town within the larger history of Greek migration to the Midwest. Ann Flesor Beck's charming personal account recreates the atmosphere of her grandfather's candy kitchen with its odors of chocolate and popcorn and the comings-and-goings of family members. "The Store" represented success while anchoring the business district of Gus's chosen home. It also embodied the Midwest émigré experience of chain migration, immigrant networking, resistance and outright threats by local townspeople, food-related entrepreneurship, and tensions over whether later generations would take over the business. An engaging blend of family memoir and Midwest history, Sweet Greeks tells how Greeks became candy makers to the nation, one shop at a time.

Author : Susanna Hoffman
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0761164545
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olive and the Caper written by Susanna Hoffman and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the year "It's Greek to me" becomes the happy answer to what's for dinner. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the upcoming epic Troy, the 2004 Summer Olympics returning to Athens--and now, yet another reason to embrace all things Greek: The Olive and the Caper, Susanna Hoffman's 700-plus-page serendipity of recipes and adventure. In Corfu, Ms. Hoffman and a taverna owner cook shrimp fresh from the trap--and for us she offers the boldly-flavored Shrimp with Fennel, Green Olives, Red Onion, and White Wine. She gathers wild greens and herbs with neighbors, inspiring Big Beans with Thyme and Parsley, and Field Greens and Ouzo Pie. She learns the secret to chewy country bread from the baker on Santorini and translates it for American kitchens. Including 325 recipes developed in collaboration with Victoria Wise (her co-author on The Well-Filled Tortilla Cookbook, with over 258,000 copies in print), The Olive and the Caper celebrates all things Greek: Chicken Neo-Avgolemeno. Fall-off-the-bone Lamb Shanks seasoned with garlic, thyme, cinnamon and coriander. Siren-like sweets, from world-renowned Baklava to uniquely Greek preserves: Rose Petal, Cherry and Grappa, Apricot and Metaxa. In addition, it opens with a sixteen-page full-color section and has dozens of lively essays throughout the book--about the origins of Greek food, about village life, history, language, customs--making this a lively adventure in reading as well as cooking.

Author : Kathy Tsaples
Publisher : Touchwood Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781771514156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Greek written by Kathy Tsaples and published by Touchwood Editions. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 90+ traditional Greek recipes that will help you master classic favourites like spanakopita and baclava, and add dozens of new treats to your repertoire. Kathy Tsaples's parents arrived in Australia as part of the early-1950s wave of immigrants from Greece and their household in Melbourne became a regular gathering place for the Greek families in their neighbourhood, nourished by Kathy's mother's cooking. Fast forward a few decades and following a battle with cancer that caused her to re-evaluate her life's purpose, Kathy began to focus on the Hellenic cuisine handed down to her. She opened a shop and soon began collecting her family's recipes into a book to share with home cooks. Stock your kitchen with Mediterranean staples like olive oil, lemon, olives, feta, rosemary, eggplant, spinach, tomato, peppers, dried beans, fish, and lamb and let Kathy teach you to make: Eggplant Dip Slow Roasted Okra Casserole Chargrilled Octopus Koulourakia Fig Spoon Sweet and so many more! Organized around feasts from the Greek Orthodox calendar as well as national holidays, the book also has a chapter dedicated to winter meals and another all about sweets. With 90+ wholesome, highly flavourful recipes adapted for the North American kitchen, accompanied by rustic photography and family ephemera, Sweet Greek will help you master familiar Greek favourites like moussaka, tzatziki, spanakopita, dolmades, and baclava, and add dozens of new treats to your repertoire.

Author : George James Patterson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772823260
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks of Vancouver written by George James Patterson and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the unparalleled retention of cultural traditions by Greek immigrants in the Kitsilano region of Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199313628
Total Pages : 947 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweet tooth is a powerful thing. Babies everywhere seem to smile when tasting sweetness for the first time, a trait inherited, perhaps, from our ancestors who foraged for sweet foods that were generally safer to eat than their bitter counterparts. But the "science of sweet" is only the beginning of a fascinating story, because it is not basic human need or simple biological impulse that prompts us to decorate elaborate wedding cakes, scoop ice cream into a cone, or drop sugar cubes into coffee. These are matters of culture and aesthetics, of history and society, and we might ask many other questions. Why do sweets feature so prominently in children's literature? When was sugar called a spice? And how did chocolate evolve from an ancient drink to a modern candy bar? The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets explores these questions and more through the collective knowledge of 265 expert contributors, from food historians to chemists, restaurateurs to cookbook writers, neuroscientists to pastry chefs. The Companion takes readers around the globe and throughout time, affording glimpses deep into the brain as well as stratospheric flights into the world of sugar-crafted fantasies. More than just a compendium of pastries, candies, ices, preserves, and confections, this reference work reveals how the human proclivity for sweet has brought richness to our language, our art, and, of course, our gastronomy. In nearly 600 entries, beginning with "à la mode" and ending with the Italian trifle known as "zuppa inglese," the Companion traces sugar's journey from a rare luxury to a ubiquitous commodity. In between, readers will learn about numerous sweeteners (as well-known as agave nectar and as obscure as castoreum, or beaver extract), the evolution of the dessert course, the production of chocolate, and the neurological, psychological, and cultural responses to sweetness. The Companion also delves into the darker side of sugar, from its ties to colonialism and slavery to its addictive qualities. Celebrating sugar while acknowledging its complex history, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets is the definitive guide to one of humankind's greatest sources of pleasure. Like kids in a candy shop, fans of sugar (and aren't we all?) will enjoy perusing the wondrous variety to be found in this volume.

Author : Leon Julius Biela
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383946059X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interwar Crossroads written by Leon Julius Biela and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common histories until today. However, many of the manifold connections, exchanges, and entanglements between the areas have not received thorough scholarly attention yet. The contributors to this volume address this by bringing together various innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the topic. They thereby further the understanding of the two areas' entangled histories and diversify prevailing concepts and narratives. Through this, the volume also offers enriching insights into the global history of the early 20th century.

Author : Jon V. Kofas
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271026473
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intervention and Underdevelopment written by Jon V. Kofas and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1989-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . this ground-breaking study by Jon Kofas . . . provides an insightful analysis of the American aid program that determined the political and economic configuration of postwar Greece. Kofa's analysis, however, is equally significant for United States history because it was on Greek soil that American counterinsurgency, pacification, and containment tactics were evolved, tested, and later applied elsewhere in the Third World. Those who seek meaningful reappraisal rather than beguiling rationalization might well begin with this study, solidly grounded on all available sources. It presents a revisionist perspective regarding both the economic and the political development of Greece under American tutelage. The declared objective of the economic aid was to avoid restructuring of the Greek economy, and to preserve Greece as an exporter of raw materials and an importer of manufactured goods. Kofas asserts that an alternative program similar to that of the northern Balkan countries was feasible, and that failure to undertake such a program is vulnerable of today's Greek economy. Likewise in the political realm, Kofas rejects the Washington dogma that Greece has to be in either the Soviet or the American camp, and therefore must be in the latter. Kofas proposes as a &"plausible alternative&" a social-demographic regime that, in addition to socioeconomic reforms at home, could have pursued abroad a pro-Greek rather than a pro-Soviet or pro-American course. The victory of the American-supported forces in Greece obscured this alternative vision for decades. Yet it was persistently propounded, in the face of discouraging odds, by a variety of centrist and leftist leaders. With the coming to office of Andreas Papandreou, this vision has become official policy in Athens. Furthermore, assorted versions of this alternative strategy are cropping up globally, which is the underlying reason why the Third World today is out of control. And also why superpower doctrines and projects not recognizing this indisputable and irreversible fact are experiencing difficulties as embarrassing as they are predictable. Hence the broad significance of this thoughtful and thought provoking study. &—From the Foreword by L. S. Stavrianos

Author : Emily Greenwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191610313
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afro-Greeks written by Emily Greenwood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical tradition to the educational context, specifically the way in which Classics was taught in the colonial school curriculum. Discussions of Caribbean literature tend to assume an antagonistic relationship between Classics, which is treated as a legacy of empire, and Caribbean literature. While acknowledging the importance of this imperial context, Greenwood argues that Caribbean appropriations of Classics played an important role in formulating original, anti-colonial and anti-imperial criticism in Anglophone Caribbean fiction. Afro-Greeks reveals how, in the twentieth century, two generations of Caribbean writers, including Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, John Figueroa, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott and Eric Williams, created a distinctive, regional counter-tradition of reading Greco-Roman Classics.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Titus Androncus. Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare: Preface to the first edition. Addenda. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: