Frank Stitt's Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill

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Amazing cookbook

Southern Splender on a Plate

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A Masterpiece - The Crown Jewel of my Cookbook library

Very colorful, informative & complete!

Frank Stitt's Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill
Frank Stitt , Pat Conroy , and Christopher Hirscheimer
Manufacturer: Artisan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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South | U.S. Regional | Regional & International | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1579652468

Book Description

R. W. Apple, Jr., of The New York Times credits third-generation Alabamian Frank Stitt with turning Birmingham into a "sophisticated, easygoing showplace of enticing, southern-accented cooking." His southern peers think his cooking may have a more profound sense of place than any of theirs. His food is rustic and homey, but sophisticated in method.

Now, Alabama's favorite son has written a long-awaited cookbook that features his enticing Provençal-influenced southern food. More than 150 recipes range from the traditional--Spicy Green Tomato and Peach Relish, Spoonbread, and Pickled Shrimp--to the inspired--Slow-Roasted Black Grouper with Ham and Pumpkin Pirlau and Pork Loin with Corn Pudding and Grilled Eggplant. Desserts such as Bourbon Panna Cotta and Sweet Potato Tart with Coconut Crust and Pecan Streusel elevate the best of the South for cooks everywhere.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing cookbook.......2007-08-20

I'm just a regular mom who likes to plunk down with a really good cookbook and try new gourmet recipes to amaze and delight my family. Lets just say that my 3 year old toddler and husband look forward to dinner every night that I pull out Frank Stitt's cookbook. Some recipes make me crazy, especially when I have to flip through 3 different pages to get various related recipes such as sauces, but oh what heavenly delight if you persevere and see the recipe through to completion. I can't say enough good things about this book - makes one appreciate the time, effort and loving care that is evident in the recipes. The sauce gribiche is worth the price of admission. The book feels like an old friend, calling me every few days to try another recipe. What a fantastic chef. This cookbook rivals my other beloved and tattered cookbook " The French Recipe cookbook" by Clements and Wolf-Cohen. You will NOT be disappointed if you get this book. 5 star rating all the way.

Southern Splender on a Plate.......2007-01-31

Wow!! This cookbook rocks. I've recently bought over a dozen Southern cooking cookbooks and this is the BEST hands down. Frank Stitt's recipes are inspiring. No longer does Southern Food need to be somewhat bland and heavy. I'm ordering my Gourmet Cook daughter a copy for her birthday in a couple of weeks. I know she'll love it.

Review.......2007-01-30

I have this cookbook, ordered another for a friend and it was in perfect condition, as stated.

A Masterpiece - The Crown Jewel of my Cookbook library.......2006-11-15

Frank Stitt's Southern Table is truly a masterpiece. I am a Southerner and was raised on the wonderful flavors that form the recipes in this book. I love that Stitt showcases humble vegetables that can be found at any Southern farmer's market and presents them in impeccable fashion. His philosophy on using the freshest, in-season ingredients is wonderful advice for all cooks. I also keep this book on my coffee-table and I often read his charming writings on Southern food and the culture that surrounds cooking and eating in the South. I recommend this cookbook above all others. My family has adored everything I have made from this cookbook. I recommend the Lowcountry Red Rice, Pimento Cheese, All the cookie recipes, Spiced Pecans, and the fabulous section on perfectly mixed cocktails. This cookbook has got me planning a trip to Birmingham for the sole purpose of eating at the Highlands Bar and Grille.

Very colorful, informative & complete!.......2006-11-14

This is a very thick book on the upscale restaurant Bottega in The Highlands area of Birmingham, Alabama. Soon I intend on actually visiting the restaurant, but until then, this book keeps me in tune with the restaurant. I can make their food at home as well as get a clear idea of the environment, cuisine and patrons who visit.

Book Description

Three renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age of the robber barons. Dana Frank brings to light the little-known story of a successful sit-in conducted by the "counter girls" at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression. Robin D. G. Kelley's story of a movie theater musicians' strike in New York asks what defines work in times of changing technology.

"Three Strikes brings to life the heroic men and women who put their jobs, bodies, and lives on the line to win a better life for all working Americans. Zinn, Frank, and Kelley show us that while the country and the union movement have changed greatly in the last hundred years, our struggle to close the divide between rich and poor remains the same."
—John Sweeney, president, AFL-CIO

"Provocative analysis of still relevant issues, as the passionate, sometimes violent demonstrations at international meetings of the global economy demonstrate."
—Mary Carroll, Booklist

"Highly readable, well-researched narratives of dramatic action"
—Leon Fink, Chicago Tribune

Customer Reviews:

Not a bad book.......2007-02-04

Not really the sort of book you would pick up and read for fun but a good easy read with good points. a great book for classes.

Well written & informative great 4 both pleasure & research!.......2004-12-11

The 1937 Detroit Woolworth's Strike
Throughout history and around the world, since the time of the construction of the ancient Egyptian pyramids , workers have united in protest of low wages, unfair policies from employers, and unpleasant work environments. The history of the United States consists of many examples of working people's struggles to organize. The greatest successes in U.S. labor history occurred in the mid-1930's and 1940's, as millions of working people who had never belonged to unions became organized in the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the CIO, and with their new strength in unity, organized strikes and won better wages, the 8-hour work-day, and other benefits.
During this labor movement, millions of workers across the United States went on strike every single day, and each triumph inspired others to organize and succeed. This national movement was due much to the new branch of the labor union, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which was full of young, energetic union activists. It had emerged from the American Federation of Labor, an older labor union uneager to enlist new members and to help workers fight capitalism that bound them. A rush of all different types of workers hurried to enlist in the CIO. The CIO allowed the workers to weave themselves into a force stronger than the largest and the most prosperous of corporations. Unions had traditionally included only white men who worked in industries such as the auto industry or as dockworkers. Now, women, African Americans, waiters, teachers, artists, and salesclerks were included in the workers' organization and their struggle for righteousness, too.

In early 1937, the women working in one of the forty Woolworth stores in the greater Detroit, Michigan area organized a strike against what was one of the biggest corporate chains in the world, its two thousand department stores stretching across five different countries. This particular store was centrally located in downtown Detroit, with heavy foot-traffic outside and a lot of business inside.
The key to the Woolworth department store chain's huge success was in its miniscule income from each of its items, adding up to a hefty profit in the millions. The Woolworth department store's founder, Frank W. Woolworth, the company's president until he died in 1919, developed this clever strategy. Woolworth's bought products at very low prices from sweated labor and directly from manufacturers and hired an inexpensive workforce. Therefore it was able to price many useful items cheaply, in addition to selling fashionable items by their sides. Drawing many eager customers, this "palace built for working class people, " was similar to today's discount chain stores such as Wal-Mart and COSTCO, where the same selling strategy is still used.
On February 27, 1937, one hundred and eight women working at a downtown Detroit Woolworth's store sat down, presenting their store manager with a list of policies they demanded from the Woolworth's company before they would return to work. These included union recognition, hiring through union offices, a ten cent per hour raise, an eight hour work day with overtime pay, free laundering of uniforms, seniority rights, and no discrimination against past strikers returning to work.
They had organized a sit-down strike, where the employees on strike occupy their workplace for an indefinite amount of time, until their employer meets their petition. One of the most effective strike tactics that emerged during the 1930's was this one. Known to raise the morale and the solidarity of strikers, a sit-down strike had proved to be a good tactic for workers in the rubber industry in France, and more importantly by union members in the auto industry in nearby Flint, Michigan. Even high school students sat down in protest of bad teaching and poor cafeteria food . This type of strike also avoided the possibility of the company's hiring scabs to take the place of the original workers, another sit-down advantage.
Living and working in the time of the 1930's labor movement, the Woolworth workers and their decisions to organize a strike were influenced by the media's communication of successful strikes in the surrounding Michigan area and by the uprising of labor unions all over the country. Just a couple weeks before the women at Woolworth's went on strike, the autoworkers working in General Motors, only seventy miles away in Flint, Michigan, had a tremendous sit-down strike victory against "the greatest of corporations " of their time. By reading their local newspapers, listening to the radio, and hearing news of victorious strikes from friends and family, Woolworth employees realized that success was possible for them, too, and that they too could fight for their rights and triumph.
During their week's stay at the store, the women were able to keep high spirits. To do so they made-up each other's hair and makeup, posed for newspaper and magazine pictures, listened to the radio, and participated in daily calisthenics. They danced down the store aisles and sang songs, both classic and original, such as their lyrics to the well-known song "Mademoiselle from Armentieres:"
Sit down, sit down girls.
Perlez-vous.
Sit down girls, come sit down, don't be afraid to [stand your ground?].
Hinky dinky parlez-vous.
At night, they slept on a sea of mattresses, blankets, and pillows sent by family and friends spread out on the store's floor, and whispered to each other until they fell asleep. The strikers' enjoyment and strength of mind was the reason for their determination throughout their strike.
The media played a strong role in the achievement of the striking women. Newspapers contributed the communication of the worker's struggles to the public. Although many reporters portrayed the women as giddy, young, and boy-crazy girls, their constant appearance in the news, despite what was said, offered the backing and the publicity the young women needed from the public to keep their ground. This outside support kept Woolworth's from having police take the strikers away, because the company knew of the outrage the action would have brought from the public and potential customers. Every day, dozens of reporters came to interview strikers and snap photographs. The constant publicity intensified the pressure on Woolworth's to give in to the strikers' needs.
On March 5, after the strikers had been occupying the store for eight days, they finally prevailed. Woolworth's department store gave in to the victorious, strong, and determined women on strike at the Detroit, Michigan downtown store. Upon hearing the wonderful news, the strikers and women of another Detroit Woolworth store engaged in a joyful party inside their store and paraded outside victoriously, and in song. They had won increased union rights, paid overtime, a forty-eight hour workweek, and their original twenty-five cent an hour wages were inflated by five cents. Not only had the
strikers won these rights for themselves, but for all of the forty Woolworth stores in the Detroit, Michigan area.
This story is only one among thousands of sit-down victories that took place over the course of just a few years. Workers throughout the entire country began "sitting down in the wake " of the burst of successful strikes in Michigan. Just as the workers at the Woolworth store in Detroit had been inspired by the autoworker's victory against General Motors, Woolworth workers in New York were starting their own sit-downs, moved by the women of Detroit. A Broadway musical brought the department store labor issue into popular culture.
The courageous women working in the Detroit Woolworth store were putting themselves at a huge risk by going on strike. The Great Depression had hit the country hard, and only four years earlier, one third of the workers in the United States were unemployed, and jobs were extremely scarce. A job was more important at that time, and there were more people ready to take the strikers' places if they were to lose against Woolworth's. The vast majority of the women on strike were only teenagers, unmarried and left without the income of a spouse.
Unfortunately, people around the country and around the globe are still fighting this battle for justice at work today. The Woolworth department store worker's struggles for their rights as employees are similar to the Wal-Mart workforce's present day effort to receive higher wages, overtime pay, healthcare, and improved work conditions. However, the victories of the General Motors workers, the Woolworth workers, and the thousands of strikers of their time period have brought us closer to the workers utopia so many of us are striving for today.

Why don't we learn about this in history class?.......2002-01-08

Since Reagan's presidency all we Americans have heard are about the "problems" caused by the labor movement. This book is a refreshing reminder of the sacrifices (sometimes, of their lives) and struggles that working people have made to better conditions for themselves and others. The spirit and zeal and commitment to each other as a "union" of equals is inspirational. Remember if it was up to the corporations we'd all be working (starting at age 12) 60-hour weeks. We can thank the labor movement for the eight-hour day, safety regulations, and minimum wage laws.

Inspiring, Compelling.......2001-09-15

The history of the Woolworth salesgirls stirke, especially, is extremely well written and inspiring. Dana Frank makes you feel and see the interior of Woolworths in the 1930s and the conditions in which the women worked. She also makes you feel the power and joy of their struggle. A must read for anyone interested in American history.

Book Description

The ultra-popular host of QVC shares her fascinating life story!

"I am who I am, and you like it or don't. I'm not changing. Since I made the decision to be myself, I've had more fun and better relationships than ever. No lightning bolt is going to strike this girl twice!"

Kathy Levine is the girl next door who answered an ad in 1986 and became a host for the then-infant cable-TV shopping network, QVC. A few years and over fifty million viewers later, Kathy, "the champion of the middle-aged, not-so-beautiful woman," is a national phenomenon.

In It's Better To Laugh..., Kathy reveals to her fans the most precious jewels of all -- her laughter, her tears, her hard-won triumphs, and what she's learned about life and being good to herself. She also tells all about life at QVC -- off and on camera, her romantic ups and downs, her special bond with her mother, and her ongoing struggles with her weight and hair!

Told with the warmth, honesty and humor that could only come from Kathy herself, It's Better To Laugh... brings us the nicest, funniest, most down to earth woman on television today -- sharing her intimate thoughts and experiences.

Customer Reviews:

good reading.......2007-05-12

i had this book but my fur baby decided to read it and not much left. now was wanting to read it again and found it here. the service was much more than i expected. received it promptly and in great shape. would purchase from here again

A Really Enjoyable Book.......2006-01-17

I loved this book so much that I bought it for a friend as a Christmas gift. Kathy Levine wrote this book with honesty. I admire her for that. I think it took courage to be able to write a tell all book. I watched Kathy for many years as host on QVC. If you are a shopping network buyer, and you knew Kathy, then you would really enjoy this book. Even if you didn't shop the Q, I am sure that you would love reading this funny heartwarming book.

Very Interesting.......2002-11-25

I really enjoyed watching Kathy Levine on QVC. I was interested in what she had to say by reading some of the reviews. I purchased this book and couldn't put it down. She talks about behind the scenes of QVC and the Jeff & Judy Crowell saga. I never knew about those two. I think you will get a good kick out of this book. You can see Kathy on HSN now, but not as a host but a vendor with her own clothing line.

Diva Delight.......1999-02-05

You really have to be a fan of QVC, America's leading retail broadcasting network, to appreciate this book. And if you are, you will! Within these pages, The Diva of Diamonique reveals everything! Secrets, desires, hopes and regrets. It's all here. If you watch QVC, you don't want to miss this book.

How she can keep her hands off that impossibly handsome Dan Huges is simply beyond me! He makes my morning every single day! With his Morning Show, at 7 p.m. EST.

Kathy's book is a real joy to read! Although most of us will ever get the chance to meet Kathy in person, this book offers us a personal look into her life.

As a Proud Gay Man, I am not ashamed to admit that Kathy is a role-model for me. And my dream is to someday meet her. And maybe then she will introduce me to that hunk, Dan Hughes!!!

An Honest view of Life and how to laugh at it........1998-09-11

Kathy tells all from grade school to nose jobs, from failures to success. I've read this book three times and love every minute.

Book Description

The .NET platform gives Visual Basic developers access to an entirely new and comprehensive class library that promises to further simplify and speed VB application development. In VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell, VB Programmers will find a concise and thorough reference to the types found in the core namespaces of the .NET Framework Class Library. The heart of this book is a classic Nutshell Quick Reference to all the types found in 22 core .NET namespaces. The entry for each type describes its significance, explains how the type is used in .NET applications and lists its members and their signatures in readable VB.NET syntax. The core namespaces documented in this book include types in the following areas:

Essential system and programming services found in the System namespace
Text handling and regular expression pattern searches
Diagnostics, debugging, and performance monitoring
Generalized and specialized collection objects
Reflection
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Input/output and serialization
Networking
Threading and timers
COM interop and globalization

An essential companion to VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, this book completes a two-volume reference that VB.NET programmers will turn to repeatedly in both its print and online versions. Thanks to a special partnership between O'Reilly and Microsoft, now you can integrate the content from this "In a Nutshell" title with the Dynamic Help inside Visual Studio .NET. Once you install the plug-in using the enclosed CD-ROM, you'll have full access to its 22 namespace overviews and 700-plus type entries. Requires Visual Studio .NET or Visual Basic .NET.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2003-06-01

As expected, this is a top notch book. Includes the information I was expecting, and a little bonus: not only can you install the VB.NET Core Classes information, but the CD that comes with this book includes all the information (for integration into VS.NET) for the VB.NET Language Reference, also by O'Reilly. So, while you only get the hard-copy of one book, you get the information of two. Quite a deal.

Excellent book, in my opinion.......2003-06-01

Okay--I don't dream in code often, and I don't make a living by programming. I do it for fun. I don't have any of the expensive versions of Visual Studio--just the "Standard", cheapie one.

With that said, I love having the framework laid out for me. The fact that it integrates into VS is a big plus. And, if you're undecided, here's a little tip--you can install the VB.NET Core Classes information *AND* the VB.NET Language reference into VS with this CD. I imagine that the VB.NET Language Reference is the same way. Whatever, for the price of one, you get two (albeit only on hardcopy version).

So--well worth the money. I love it.

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