![]() ![]() “‘Tasting History’ seemed like a more interesting name than ‘Food and History,’ but in the first episodes, I didn’t actually taste the food on camera!”Īs it turns out, Max wasn’t the only one excited about exploring and recreating historical food on camera. “I wanted to tell people right away what they’d be getting: Food and History,” the Phoenix- born, Los Angeles-based creator shares. Faced with a sudden glut of free time and a citywide stay-at- home order, he returned to the idea of a YouTube channel. Then, the pandemic hit and Max was furloughed from his job at Walt Disney Studios. Though Max had made a practice of surprising his coworkers with historic breakroom snacks methodically researched and created in his kitchen, at the time, he didn’t give the idea too much thought. When Max Miller arrived at his office’s 2019 Christmas party with homemade historic baked goods in hand, a colleague suggested he start a YouTube channel to share his historic goodies with a wider audience. ![]()
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When that negative inner voice gets switched on, it’s hard to think about anything else. ![]() ![]() ![]() But its best sections, which reveal how Ross came to know the men who ran the Revolution and later the country, are intelligent and lively. The book is at least 50 pages too long and overstuffed with minutiae about minor characters we forget five pages later. “The flag, like the Revolution it represents, was the work of many hands,” she writes. No record exists of Washington’s visit to Ross’ parlor, for example, so Miller sidesteps the question of her actual role in creating the first Stars and Stripes. The result is a historical account that’s brilliantly researched but feels somewhat like a bait-and-switch, as much about the making of America as about Ross. 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American History Book Review: Betsy Ross and the Making of America Close ![]() ![]() ![]() I had young children of my own who also helped. ![]() I read the manuscript to children from four to ten years old, to classes of kids who gave me great feedback and suggestions. This book, along with my other children’s book, was my response. One day, my publisher, Linda Kramer, asked, “Dan, do you think you could write a book for children that conveys some of the lessons and inspiration in Way of the Peaceful Warrior?” I thought about it. ![]() Aided by a young girl and an old man named Socrates, Danny learns what it means to live like a peaceful warrior. It tells the story of a young boy who learns to face his fears (and a neighborhood bully) not by fighting or running away, but by applying a wonderful secret. 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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I encourage you to find the music I mention in this book and either listen to it while you read or later. ![]() I thought this was an impossible task but there it is.Īnd, as always and ever, thank you, Chas, for taking my back. She laid it all out for me and gave me little bits and pieces to make Faye’s experience as a small town librarian richer for my readers. Dixie has provided a lifeline often throughout the years of our friendship and she didn’t disappoint. Or, in this instance, I emailed the fabulous Dixie Malone at Denver Public Library. When I needed to understand how a small town library works, I did what I usually do. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to and purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. ![]() This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Published by Kristen Ashley at Smashwords ![]() ![]() ![]() Trust me when I say – Everless will keep you up at night. Here there be twists, turns and antiheroes. This is a book best to delve into knowing as little a possible. Each page, not to mention the plot itself is deeply shrouded in mystery. A ruthless world of bloodletting where the aristocracy live for eons while the merchant and peasant classes bleed themselves into poverty and death.Įverless is a difficult book to review. Welcome to a deliciously morbid fantasy world where blood is not only just sustenance but time and power. But the web of secrets at Everless stretches beyond her desire, and the truths Jules must uncover will change her life for ever … and possibly the future of time itself.īlood is money, time is power, desire is treachery. There, Jules encounters danger and temptation in the guise of the Gerling heir, Roan, who is soon to be married. To stop him from draining himself to clear their debts, Jules takes a job at Everless, the grand estate of the cruel Gerling family. Jules and her father are behind on their rent and low on hours. The rich live for centuries the poor bleed themselves dry. ![]() Ever since the age of alchemy and sorcery, hours, days and years have been extracted from blood and bound to iron coins. ![]() In the land of Sempera, the rich control everything – even time. ![]() ![]() ![]() The present chapters are told from the points of view of Libby and Lucy, while the chapters set in the past are told from the point of view of Henry. The story flips between the past and the present. However, stripped of once well-loved possessions and in a state of disrepair, the house has a very sinister past that Libby is determined to uncover. Soon after Libby Jones turns twenty-five, she receives a letter informing her that she has inherited a house (or rather a mansion) in Chelsea, worth millions. It’s the perfect horror story and one that I’d definitely recommend. I’m glad I did because it was very much a hair-raising story, one took on an incredibly dark turn and I quickly became engrossed in the story. I didn’t plan on reading her other books but I’ll admit this one piqued my curiosity and when I saw it in the library on holiday I immediately checked it out. ![]() I’ve only read one book by Lisa Jewell and I wasn’t terribly impressed with it. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go? ![]() Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Title: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell ![]() ![]() ![]() The trading routes were well established and the commodities – such as pepper, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and mace – were managed via a familiar set of tariffs and customs. ![]() Muslim traders from the ‘Swahili Coast’ of Africa traded up the coast to the Red Sea and across land to Cairo, heart of the Muslim world, while other traders crossed the ocean eastwards to the coast of India, where Hindu rajas ran a number of seaports offering hospitality to communities of Muslims and Jews in a complex multi-ethnic web. In 1500 the Indian Ocean was the scene of sophisticated trading networks which had been centuries in the making. (Afonso de Albuquerque describing the Portuguese capture of Goa on 25 November 1510, p.286) We have herded them into the mosques and set them on fire… We have estimated the number of dead Muslim men and women at six thousand. For four days without any pause our men have slaughtered… wherever we have been able to get into we haven’t spared the life of a single Muslim. Our Lord has done great things for us, because he wanted us to accomplish a deed so magnificent that it surpasses even what we have prayed for… I have burned the town and killed everyone. ![]() |