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The Foster's Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes for Morning, Noon, and Night

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Mouthwatering scones, heart-to-heart talks
recreating college favorites
Just as good as Fosters!
Very Good Collection of Comfort Restaurant Food
Fabulous cookbook!

The Foster's Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes for Morning, Noon, and Night
Sara Foster , and Sarah Belk King
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0375505466
Release Date: 2002-04-30

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Since 1990, Sara Foster has been delighting the patrons of her two North Carolina gourmet takeout food stores with refined yet unpretentious fare that reflects her Southern upbringing and years as a professional cook on the East Coast. The Foster's Market Cookbook, penned with food writer Sarah Belk King, collects dozens of Foster's most popular recipes, beloved for their use of high-quality seasonal ingredients and rich, imaginative flavor combinations. As with Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and myriad tomes by Martha Stewart (for whom Foster worked in the 1980s), Foster's debut provides both advanced and fledgling home cooks with impeccably tasteful dinner-party menu ideas and creative weekday meals.

Starting the book as you might your morning, Foster offers tantalizing breakfast possibilities such as Sticky Orange-Coconut Pinwheels and traditional-with-a-twist brunch dishes such as Mushroom-Risotto Hash with Fried Eggs and Grilled Ham. Next come more than 15 soul-warming soups, stews, and chilies (Corn and Roasted Red Pepper Chowder is just one of many must-make entries); sandwiches and snacks; salads and sides; entrées; and desserts. Main-dish highlights include Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Prosciutto and Sun-Dried Tomatoes (they're so good and so easy to make!), Grilled Eggplant Parmesan with Fresh Mozzarella and Zesty Tomato Sauce, and Pan-Seared Sea Scallops with Tom Thumb Tomatoes and Foster's Pesto (a perfect quick spring meal). The desserts are divine, including chic confections such as Four-Layer Blueberry Gingerbread Cake with Mocha Cream, a collaboration with Durham pastry chef Kathy Edwards, as well as old-fashioned treats like strawberry shortcake and pecan pie (nicely jazzed with bourbon). Throughout, sidebars and tips on techniques give cooks additional opportunity to learn from Foster's fine food sensibility. For connoisseurs of simple yet sophisticated cuisine, The Foster's Market Cookbook truly titillates. --Rebecca Robinson

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For more than a decade, Foster’s Markets have been cooking and baking foods made fresh each day from ingredients picked locally at the peak of flavor. Now Sara Foster shares more than two hundred delicious recipes, providing modern takes on favorite home-style classics.

The Foster’s Market Cookbook features old-fashioned ideas about how good food should taste and new-fashioned ideas about prep times and the use of high-quality prepared ingredients. Filled with eighty color photos, this is the perfect cookbook to refer to over and over again for everyday meals or for entertaining, whether it be for two or for twenty.

Before moving to Durham, North Carolina, Sara worked alongside Martha Stewart in the kitchen of Martha’s catering business. When she opened her own catering company, Sara kept her food simple yet soulful, trusting the complex flavors of seasonal ingredients. This same basic principle guides the daily offerings at Foster’s Markets in Durham and Chapel Hill. Each week the markets serve nearly a thousand customers hungrily searching out Sara’s innovative, new-style home cooking. And now food lovers everywhere will be able to prepare with ease sumptuous dishes such as Roasted Chicken, Sweet Potato, and Arugula Salad; Herb-Grilled Salmon with Fresh Tomato-Orange Chutney; and Risotto Cakes with Roasted Tomatoes and Foster’s Arugula Pesto. Also featured are a host of wonderful desserts, such as Lemon Chess Pie with Sour Cherries and Chocolate Espresso Layer Cake with Mocha Latte Frosting.

Featuring mouthwatering favorites from the market and dozens of helpful sidebars that discuss ingredients, techniques, and make-ahead tips, The Foster’s Market Cookbook provides all you need to know to make the most of every season’s finest offerings.

Customer Reviews:

Mouthwatering scones, heart-to-heart talks.......2007-06-08

I am not an objective reviewer of this cookbook, because sitting in Fosters Market nibbling scones and sipping coffee kept me sane for 5 years of graduate school at Duke. My closest friendships were cemented there. There are other treasures in the region - Bill Smith's Crooks Corner in Chapel Hill was another favorite (you can find their shrimp and grits recipe on-line, and find more recipes in Seasoned in the South: Recipes from Crook's Corner and from Home). I bought Sara Foster's book for the scone recipe, and sent the book to friends. Reading the book reminds me that good food shared with good friends can bring great happiness. Thank you, Sara!

recreating college favorites.......2007-06-03

I lived right down the street from Foster's Market in Chapel Hill during college and just gave this cookbook to each of my roommates for graduation presents because we all love it so much! I eat there at least 4 times a week and now that we are all moving away we can attempt to re-create some of our favorites. The pictures in the book make your mouth water and look just like what the food in the market looks like. Some of the recipes seem a little difficult with lots of ingredients but trust me- they are worth it! Once you've mastered this one I would try her 'Fresh Every Day' cook book or 'Barefoot Contessa'.

Just as good as Fosters!.......2006-05-01

As a student at Duke University, my friends and I went to Fosters for brunch EVERY Sunday. The breakfast specials - pancakes, omlets, and the "special" - were always, without fail, incredible. If we made it there later in the day, the soups, breads, and salads were always a hit.
My best friend bought me this cookbook for graduation, and it was by far the best gift I received. Being able to actually make all the food we always ate at Fosters brought back all the memories of my college days. The strawberry-rhubarb crisp, hummus, blondies, and scones are among my favorie recipies to make. The pictures speak more than a thousand words and entice even the novice cooks to try out her recipies. Among my collection of cookbooks, this one is certainly the favorite.
If you are ever in Durham or Chapel Hill area, I encourage you to check out Fosters Market - truly worth the trip.

Very Good Collection of Comfort Restaurant Food.......2005-04-30

`The Foster's Market Cookbook' by Sara Foster, with Sarah Belk King, I bought in my `buy everything I saw on the Food Network' phase, especially after I saw Sarah Foster demonstrate her killer sticky bun recipe on the Food Network's `In Martha's Kitchen' show. This was also in my sticky bun-baking period, before I gave it up as too much work and went back to straight breads.

One of the main reasons the book sat unopened on my shelves for so long was the fact that the `killer sticky bun' recipe was simply not that killer. Do not believe anyone when they say they have an easy sticky bun recipe, because it probably means the end result will fall below expectations. Around the same time, I did a sticky bun recipe from funny baker Wayne Harley Brachman, and that one didn't come up to snuff anyway. Leave it to Julia Child to come through for me. I did the sticky bun recipe in `Baking with Julia' and it was a LOT of work, but it in fact surpassed anything you can get from the mall.

But getting back to Sarah Foster's book, I have come back to it because I harbored s suspicion that there was some really good stuff in the book, and I was not disappointed.

Part of my attraction is that I am a sucker for any cookbook that covers sandwiches. While I think Foster's sandwich recipes are not as interesting or as complete as those in Nancy Silverton's whole book devoted to the subject, they are a great resource if you happen to have no other source of ideas for sandwiches.

Otherwise, the book covers everything you would expect, and it is especially strong on topics where you would expect expertise such as muffins, biscuits, scones, soups, salads, and egg dishes. On one of my favorite criteria for evaluating cookbooks, the recipe for a classic French omelet, Foster comes through like a champ. The only omelet tip she does not follow is to let the eggs come to room temperature before cracking and beating them, but then, this is probably quite impractical for a restaurant kitchen.

She is also quite good on another of my favorite criteria, the making of stocks. Her recipes are very good for non-foodies and people who care not for haute cuisine, as they do not take very long to produce a very acceptable chicken, vegetable, or beef stock. My only reservations may be that some of her suggestions may lead to waste perfectly good poached chicken on the one hand and include less than edible vegetable cuttings into stocks. There is a reason some people are hyperfussy about stock making. These are but two of the reasons.

I fully endorse Ms. Foster's recipes for muffins, biscuits, and scones. They are as good or better than recipes I have seen in books by professional bakers and books specializing in these subjects.

The hardest aspect of whether it is worth buying this book is how if will complement your current cookbook collection. If you are a cookbook collector, the question is moot. Nothing will stop you from getting this notable title. On the other hand, if all you have is `The Joy of Cooking', this would be a welcome supplement, as like fellow Martha Stewart alumnae, Ina Garten's early cookbooks, all the recipes come from a commercial kitchen which depends on their products for good business and the products are relatively easy to make.

This also means that the selection of recipes is very good fare for church bazaars and bake sales. While Foster is downsizing her recipes to household serving numbers, I am sure that her soups would work well at two to four to eight times her recipe size. Just be a little careful on multiplying some of the spicier ingredients.

I find all the recipes extremely well written. They are full of important details for amateur chefs and unlike some books, everything is printed in good old fashioned black and white with a little highlight shading here and there for sidebars. And, several dishes are presented in living color photographs, and little real estate is taken up by cutsie pics of Foster's Market staff and customers. My only argument with the layout of the book is the chapter title pages where the names of the recipes are written in a kind of multicolored hodgepodge, similar to the maddening typography in Jamie Oliver's otherwise excellent cookbooks.

Fostering this kind of material is what made Martha Stewart so respectable in what she did on her shows. Of this genre of cookbook, this is a very good sample. I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for recipes from this `feel good market' venue. I think, for example, that it is more value for the money than Ina Garten's first cookbook.

Fabulous cookbook!.......2004-08-25

I just received Sara Foster's cookbook for my birthday and I have already made several of the recipes and each one turned out fantastic! One thing I loved immediately about this cookbook is the number of recipes! You certainly get your bang for your buck with this book. There are such an array of recipes from appetizers to soups (lots of really good soup recipes), to vinigarettes, to dressings, to entrees and desserts, any cook cannot be disappointed with this book.

I read the review before me and I have to say that I just made the Roasted Pork Tenderloin with dried cherry sauce myself and I thought it tasted wonderful. I often have difficulty keeping pork moist when I cook it but I definitely didn't have that problem with this recipe!

I cannot wait to make some of the desserts as well. Everything looks so good and relatively easy to make!! A great cookbook for anyone!

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Secrets of the Rich and Greedy
And to Think It All Started With "The Naked Face"...
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Are all Multibillionaire Families Like This?
Simply dreadful! [may contain "spoilers", beware!] :)

Morning, Noon & Night
Sidney Sheldon
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When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe. At the family gathering following the funeral in Boston, a strikingly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be the daughter of Harry Stanford and entitled to a share of the tycoon's estateis she genuine or an impostor? The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America, but behind the facade of fame and glamour is a hidden web of blackmail, drugs, and murder.

Sidney Sheldons Morning, Noon, and Night sweeps from the splendors of the Italian Riviera to the fashion salons of Paris and New York, to the elite of Bostons Back Bay and the social register of Floridas Hobe Sound. His intriguing story twists and turns its way through smoke and mirrors until the ultimate Sidney Sheldon surprise ending.

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Secrets of the Rich and Greedy.......2007-04-20

Not knowing I was about to read two books with similar storylines, I picked up "The Testament" by John Grisham and "Morning Noon & Night" by Sidney Sheldon. After reading the first, I went right into the second book and for 95% of the story was hooked. It was the conclusion that did me in. Harry Stanford, billionaire, dies in a boating accident, falling off the deck of his yacht, the result of rough, choppy waters. He is survived by his three children, Judge Tyler Stanford, Kendall Stanford Renaud and Woodrow (Woody) Stanford who all have their own demons to fight and the inheritance would greatly chase away many of those demons. Along comes Julia Stanford, illegitimate daughter of Harry and another heir to the estate. The story takes its twists and turns with serious intrigue and deadly maneuvers plotted out in order to destroy Julia and cut her out of her share of the estate. Tyler needs to hold on to his lover, Lee, who definitely likes the finer things that big money can buy, Kendall and her husband, Marc, could use the money to pay off her anonymous blackmailer once and for all, and Woody and Peggy would definitely benefit by it in order to help Woody kick his heroin addiction. They have paid their dues growing up with a father's vindictive treatment, something Julia did not have to endure. Who is out to get Julia? Is Julia really Julia or just another greedy gold digger? The reader is astute to the true villain, however, he/she is very smart and his/her plan seems iron clad until the end when all unravels very quickly in a matter of just a few pages. Considering the amount of intrigue and resolution needed to be accomplished, this story would definitely had been a five-star novel had that one element had been expounded upon.

And to Think It All Started With "The Naked Face"..........2006-01-15

THE NAKED FACE was amatuerish when I look back at all that Sydney Sheldon has done since then. Since "The Other Side of Midnight" I have had a bias toward Sydney Sheldon's writing style. He is brilliant. The book shines again...and makes you wonder what all is in that mind of his. Getting older seems to move him toward his best. The way he introduces you to the characters in a way that makes you love them, hate them, not trust them, pity them...have numerous emotions about them...so much so that you WANT to know the story. The story almost becomes an aside. You need to know the characters' stories by the time you know them. He takes you all over the world...you travel to places you never dreamed of...and you are completely in Sydney Sheldon's world while your read. Read his entire collection. It is time well spent...and such entertainment!

Page turner.......2005-05-12

Yet another good one fron Sheldon.
Harry Stanford, a billionaire dies leaving his fortune to his three children , judge Tyler , fashion designer Kendall and polo player Woody. His children reunite after their father's death and find out that his will states that his fortune should also be shared with his illegimate daughter Julia.
It turns out that Julia's mom had been their nanny but she leaves after her employer makes her pregnant. After that,Julia and her mom live in a different place away from Harry Stanford.Meanwhile Mrs.Harry Stanford commits suicide,not being able to bear the humiliation her husband has bestowed upon her. Tyler, Kendall and Woody blame their father for their mother's death ( which is very correct).
Now will Julia come seeking for her fortune?
A must read.

Are all Multibillionaire Families Like This?.......2005-04-02

Having recently finished John Grisham's The Testament, I'm wondering if the similarities in plots are a coincidence or if this is a typical characteristic in extremely wealthy families that makes great fodder for mystery writers all over the world.

Both The Testament and Morning, Noon and Night focus on the death of the rich patriarch who seem like good guys, but in reality, are both cruel, heartless and self-centered egomaniacs. Although the death in The Testament was a suicide, the death of Harry Stanford in Morning, Noon and Night is either an accident or a murder. Sidney Sheldon leaves it up to the reader to try to figure out. He does give you the answer, which should surprise even the most die-hard armchair crime sleuth, but you have to wait until the very end to get those answers!

Both books showcase offspring who have had little to do with their father for most of their lives (except to pop in when they want something, especially large chunks of money). After the deaths of the fathers, the children are all overwrought with emotions and act like grieving, loving children, while wondering how much money they will inherit and plotting how they will spend it. Then you have them trying to cheat their siblings out of their imagined shares. Both Sheldon and Grisham seem to be painting a very ugly picture when this amount of money is involved.

Both Morning, Noon and Night and The Testament involve an illegitimate daughter who stands to inherit millions. The big difference is that in The Testament, she's an innocent player, while in Morning, Noon and Night, Julia may be a key factor in her father's death!

Unlike most of Sidney Sheldon's books, Morning, Noon and Night focuses on four siblings instead of one main character with a strong, clearly defined individuality. As the journey takes the reader through murder, revenge, blackmail, greed, hate, and miscellaneous other mayhem, it's difficult to put the book down, even for a few minutes.

Morning, Noon and Night is definitely a page-turner and you'll find it difficult to spread reading the book over a few days time - you'll want to finish it in one sitting! Sidney Sheldon doesn't let us down with the ending, as it's unexpected and unanticipated.

Morning, Noon and Night is one of my favorite novels by Sidney Sheldon. If you've never read one of his books, I'd recommend starting with this one or Master of the Game.

Simply dreadful! [may contain "spoilers", beware!] :).......2004-10-09

I was shocked by the poor quality of the writing from such a well-known author. Though published in 1995, the reader is expected to ignore the then-well-known realities of DNA testing -- for instance, that shared parentage can be proved by comparing the DNA of siblings, not just from putative sibling to parent.

We're also asked to ignore the realities of fingerprint identification when it would have been immediately helpful in revealing an imposter's criminal record and actual identity.

Adding insult to injury, after ignoring the technique when it logically would have come into play, Sheldon brings in fingerprinting at the very tail of the book, in a complicated scenario involving latent prints to identify not the missing heiress, but rather, a private detective!

Every plot development was telegraphed in advance, and the decedent went from being rather interesting in the first few pages to a one-dimensional (and repetitive) demon throughout the rest of the too-long tome. Even the vocabulary and sentence structure were overly simplistic.

If you want to read the identical plot but done WELL, try "Amanda" by Kay Hooper, also published in 1995. Hooper has her character do some marvelously stupid things (again, failing to exploit DNA to the fullest in a timely way), but Hooper's vocabulary, syntax, character development and settings are vastly better than the careless work Sheldon provides in "Morning, Noon, & Night." I read the books only a week apart. Hooper's work was engaging, though somewhat predictable; Sheldon's was irritating, and ENTIRELY predictable.

Recipes 1-2-3 Menu Cookbook: Morning, Noon, and Night : More Fabulous Food Using Only 3 Ingredients

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Recipes 1-2-3 Menu Cookbook: Morning, Noon, and Night : More Fabulous Food Using Only 3 Ingredients
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Busy cooks seeking fussless, intensely flavored dishes will embrace Rozanne Gold's Recipes 1-2-3 Menu Cookbook: Morning, Noon and Night, the sequel to her award-winning Recipes 1-2-3. In that ingenious book, Gold showed how recipes could be pared down to three ingredients each (salt and pepper aside) to achieve dishes that were more than the sum of their parts. In this book, she presents over 60 menus of three-ingredient dishes, 260 recipes in all, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner--course after course of simple, healthful food based on easy-to-find ingredients inventively treated.

Want a lovely weekend breakfast? Try Gold's "Room Service" menu of Poached Eggs with Lime Hollandaise, Smoked Salmon Quesadillas, and Fresh Strawberries with Gingered Yogurt--nine ingredients, total. Hungry Guests, a menu for streamlined entertaining, features Frisée and Beet Salad with Goat Cheese Dressing; Chicken Fricassee with Pearl Onions and Lardons; Celery Root Gratin; and Warm Banana Tarts--a 12-ingredient feast. Other menus present equally satisfying few-ingredient recipes that even novice cooks can prepare. Throughout, Gold provides useful strategies for time-saving cooking; her "Grapenotes" offers wine suggestions to complement the dishes and "Menus from the Healthy Kitchen" lists recipes that are fat-free, low-fat, and low-calorie. You'll find yourself mixing and matching dishes to create your own few-ingredient menus--a tribute to Gold's unique approach and enticing recipes. --Arthur Boehm

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one of the best series in the cookbook genre.......2007-05-26

I own or have cooked with all the Rozanne Gold cookbooks and each one is, well, solid Gold. Her recipes are simple, delicious, elegant even when they're just "homey food." The presentation is clear and simple and I have never yet tried one of her recipes and failed.

Quick and simple recipes.......2000-03-26

This is one of the best cookbooks in my collection. Not only are the recipes simple with only three ingredients, they are delicious. I use this cookbook at least once a week.

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Morning, Noon and Night
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A hilarious monologue about fatherhood by a unique comic voice

In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged, and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Gray comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of a "wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Gray time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness-"Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?"

A richly comic work about parenthood, about adults who don't grow up and children who do, Morning, Noon and Night stands as Gray's most mature work to date.

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kind of magic.......2006-08-04

As an aging hipster and middle-aged mother of a young child I could easily identify with the subject of this book, which is, roughly, about settling down to the family life and enjoying its blessings despite all expections. But more than that, I was moved by the grace, directness and humor of the writing. Gray's unique sensibility is so disarmingly present in this short meditation that our restrospective awareness of his death makes the reading quite painful. Still, a wonderful little package of feeling and intelligence that deftly explores the ambivalent joys of belonging to family.

Such a shame he's gone.......2005-09-13

One sentence of this monologue might describe Gray himself--"a different kind of show." Having seen him perform this monologue, I can't read this piece without imagining his voice behind it and mourning his suicide. Reading it, however, I'm curious what writing had to do with Gray's effectiveness. Homemade or homespun, Gray's writing is full of ellipsis, repetition, and those sort of "A equals B equals C" moments that could easily be cleaned up and cleared up. However, a good part of its immediacy rises from its seeming in-creation rather than created. A steady stream of wonder courses through wording that--I'm assuming--was deliberately crafted to be appropriately imperfect. Maybe I'm prejudiced by having heard Gray and by my grief--which persists--but his unpolished prose throws more crafted work into an odd perspective. At one moment in this piece, Gray describes how seeing street entertainment on the way to David Copperfield made the master magician appear pure artifice. For me, that's what Gray does--he shows the joys of real and messy creativity.

Morbidly compelling.......2004-03-24

I stumbled upon a discount copy of Spalding Gray's Morning, Noon and Night and was morbidly compelled to read it. Basically, he recounts a day in his life when his youngest son was still an infant.

Other of his works are better written and with sharper wit and insight, and to plod through this one - to get it - you have to hear Spalding tell it in your head, see his expressions and mannerisms.

This memoir is something of a reflection on parenthood, and, well, everything, in true Spalding fashion. The book is full of sentiments that everyone confronting parenthood can relate to. I found myself angry at him for saying some of it though (OK, so I'm not finished with my anger just yet). Toward the end he writes:

"Here it is only ten-fifteen in the evening and I'm wasted, and I didn't even go to work. I don't know how people do it. I don't know how people raise families and work at the same time. What's more, why would they want to do it? With only one life to live, why bring more life into the world to be responsible for? It's absurd. It's ridiculous, I think. Why complicate your life with more life that you are ultimately responsible for? I love my children, but they could only be accidents born out of a kind of blind passion. I could never have had a child if I had to think about it."

Although he didn't go to work, he didn't do much parenting either. His girlfriend, working from a home office, also cooked, managed the household renovations, tended to the baby. He was selfish and spoiled - yoga, bike-ride, drinking.

But in the light of his death this work also sketches a portrait of a very sad, confused, scared - desperately scared - childish man. (Lots of inky water imagery too.) The humour and the wonder had already started leaving him.

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Peace of mind through displaced anxiety.......2002-06-11

This is the most recent of Spalding Gray's monologues and as much as I love his work if he ends his autobiographical pieces here I would be happy, there's a feeling of closure and joy to this work.
If you've read (or seen or listened to) much of his work and have warmed to Mr Gray this will delight you and make you feel very happy for the man - he's finally laid many demons to rest.
After the anxieties of Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy this finds Gray much more relaxed and surprisingly content. Having to form a family due to a surprise conception with a lover (see It's a Slippery Slope) Gray has had forced upon him one of his major fears, children of his own.
But the converse of "you better be careful what you wish for..." seems to be true for Gray. It tells the story of one day in his relatively new family's life, also flashing back to the birth of his second son during a torrential storm, and finally Gray is too busy to obsess about - well about anything he wants to obssess about - he can now see the world afresh through his baby son Theo's eyes.
Also, the conversations with his nine-year-old son are hysterical and portray a bonded, wonderfully balanced relationship.
A tale of leap-frogging the mid-life crisis and finding contentment where there was once fear. A true delight - but only read it after you've read more of his previous work - it'll be worth the wait.

Lawnmower Man.......2000-02-24

What a Gemini! From tortured NYC artist to peppy suburban papa riding bicycles and buying ice cream. What's next -- Republican golfer? Raving homeless man with shopping cart? I can't even guess. As a parent, I laughed out loud at dinner table scenes, etc., but was bothered by the fact that although he's madly in love with his kids (which is good; most parents are), he barely mentions Kathie, his partner. And what happened to Renee (is that her name? ) -- the woman he was married to when he got Kathie pregnant? I'd love to hear her side of the story!

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Celebrate the cycle of the day, as the earth turnes to and then away from the sun, and meet a wide array of animals from America's east coast to the west as they work and rest, eat and play, just as humans do.

Jean Craighead George's lyrical greeting to the day becomes a sweeping panorama of the American countryside with Wendell Minor's evocative, dramatic paintings.

Good morning, the dawn,
when the earth is turning from night to day
and waking begins.

Newbery Medalist Jean Craighead George's lyric greeting to the day celebrates how the earth turns to and then away from the sun. Starting at dawn on the East Coast, then moving to afternoon in the Midwest, and finally evening in the West, young readers will meet a wide array of animals at work, rest, and play as the day progresses across America. With evocative, dramatic paintings by distinguished artist Wendell Minor, this stunning picture book provides a sweeping panorama of the American countryside as well as a remarkable look at how an animal's day parallels our own.

00 Kansas Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book Award Masterlist

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Not only do I love this book, but my babe does too.......2004-05-09

Sure the pictures don't exactly match the words, but the pictures are beautiful and the verse is lyrical. This is my near two-year-old's favorite book. She walks around the entire time saying, "Morning, Morning, Morning."

I also think that this would be a perfect book for a family interested in observing daily rhythms and routine, especially Waldorf-oriented families.

A Naturally Wonderful Children's Book.......2001-10-20

A great children's book with wonderful illustrations that will spark young children's interest into the animals they may send around them.

I have always loved George's work and now there is a book that even the youngest of children can enjoy, from this nature loving Newberry Medal-winning author.

To date I have bought four copies as gifts for friends and family members who just had newborn babies.

pictures don't match the words making it an annoying book.......2001-09-15

The illustrations are realistic and high quality. I have issus wth the organization of the verses and the verses not matching the illustrations.

One problem lies in that each verse cites up to five different animals and that not all the animals are pictured on the pages. This is very confusing for my four year old who asks me where a certain animal is pictured and it simply is not there. Other pages where the verse references time of day (afternoon) and no animals, show animals. Why not have pictured simple landscapes with skies that relate to that time of day instead? For example the picture for noon doesn't even show a sun, let alone a bright shining sun, it shows a close up of bison, and bison are not mentioned in that passage at all.

Sometimes the animals within one passage are not even related to each other by habitat. An example is mentioning a stork, killdeer and a cardinal in the same passage. Yes, they are all birds but they just aren't in the same habitat, preventing them from being depicted in an illustration together. I'd have prefered mentioning three ocean dwelling creatures within one passage, even if some were birds, some fish, and some ocean dwelling mammals.

I do love picture books that feature seasonal themes or time-of-day themes. I also love books that feature animals.

I have never seen such an annoying arrangement of verses and such a mismatch of words with illustrations in a picture book for young children. For this confusion and annoyance, I grant one star. I dislike it so much that I can't stand to read it to my children and am donating it to my local library.

A simple story for young readers with superb illustrations!.......1999-11-25

This is simply a wonderful book! I truly enjoyed using it while tutoring a fourth grade remedial reader because it was simple, yet beautifully worded and superbly illustrated. Each illustration is a marvelous nature portrait in itself. My fourth grade student (who happens to be very interested in science) savored each lovely portrait, as we talked about the animals and environments depicted in each one. Though the words are few and simple, the book avoids being overly childish. Rather, it respectfully presents the cycle of the day (morning, noon and night) and the beauty of various animals as they act in their natural environments throughout the day.

Retro Breakfast: Memorable Meals Morning, Noon, or Night (Retro Series)

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Retro Breakfast: Memorable Meals Morning, Noon, or Night
It's the most important book of the day

Retro Breakfast: Memorable Meals Morning, Noon, or Night (Retro Series)
Linda Everett , and Richard Perry
Manufacturer: Collectors Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1888054875

Book Description

Rise and shine, it's breakfast time! If you think the smell of bacon and hot coffee wafting from a warm kitchen is a thing of the past, then bring back the bounty of breakfast with RETRO BREAKFAST: MEMORABLE MEALS MORNING, NOON, OR NIGHT. From the coffee-stained pages of classic American cookbooks to recipes handed down from memory, Linda Everett and Richard Perry bring us the best of breakfast from rural Washington State to down-home Alabama. More than 120 recipes capture classic tastes of the most important meal of the day, including Okanogan Omelet, Lulu's Café Home Fries, Castlerock Blueberry Griddle Cakes, and Southern Exposure Sweet Potato Biscuits. Featuring nostalgic images that will encourage you to wake up and eat no matter what time of day, this Retro guide is sure to make anyone an early riser.

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Retro Breakfast: Memorable Meals Morning, Noon, or Night .......2007-01-12

This a is great and fun recipe book if you like breakfast food, however if you love retro and breakfast you will love it, I do.

It's the most important book of the day.......2006-04-28

As easy a target as the classic morning meals in this book can be, what I enjoyed most about "Retro Breakfast" is that the recipes were presented without much comment on the editors' part. So many books of this sort (James Lileks' "Gallery of Regrettable Food" or "Interior Desecrations," notably) are larded to the point of bursting with ironic asides, arch giggles, and conspiratorial winks to the reader to acknowledge that we sure are cooler *now* than those people were back *then.*

Mercifully, here we just got a bunch of old-timey (like, 1950s-70s) recipes, mixed in with the "Retro..." series' signature period artwork, fonts, and colorful presentation. We can add our own hipster swagger if we want while we offer up some of "Mother's Cinnamon Flop" (p. 94) or "Sunday Mornin' Hotcakes" (p. 114). But even if we don't, we'll still wind up with what on the whole look like some pretty appetizing starts to the day.

The phrase "look like" does remind me, though, of one disappointing fact: the illustrations that accompany given recipes don't always seem to be illustrations *of* the given recipe. It's hard to tell sometimes if we're looking at the actual dish, or just something similar from the archive.

Some of us were fortunate enough to have enjoyed breakfasts like this with our Saturday morning cartoons, back in the good old days, and it's a nice stroll through our memories to have them available to us again. And even if we never get around to making any of these things, the book itself is a great retro reference to have around.

Morning, Noon, and Night: Poems to Fill Your Day

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Morning, Noon, and Night: Poems to Fill Your Day

Manufacturer: Mondo Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Morning, Noon, and Night: Living the Creative Life

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If you'r into th writing lif, a good read
Uplifting and Inspiring

Morning, Noon, and Night: Living the Creative Life
Judy Collins
Manufacturer: Tarcher
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1585424153

Book Description

Creativity is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out the corners of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest and to which we cannot give a name. When I was young, I heard the voice, the ticking, had the dream, but I didn't know what it was and felt only the pain, the longing that the voice inside brought me.
-Judy Collins

Morning, Noon, and Night is an enthralling peek into the creative mind of a woman known for her songs, books, and paintings. Beloved singer and songwriter Judy Collins carefully describes her approach to the creative process and breaks down each day of that process into morning, noon, and night, giving readers insight into how to stay creative throughout the entire day. Charming anecdotes combined with practical instruction make this book a must-read for every artist in every creative discipline-from the experienced to the beginner-as well as for every Judy Collins fan!

Customer Reviews:

If you'r into th writing lif, a good read.......2006-09-11

This book is a little off my beaten path but was on vacation and looking for some writing inspiration and wasnt disappointed. The book is like a well written novel to me but it is non-fiction and had a smooth flow to the principals of the writing life through a creative side. It flowed well and took you through real life steps to a creative life. Enjoyed the book.

Uplifting and Inspiring.......2005-07-23

Judy Collins a well know performer and songwriter for the past 40 years offers her insights to the creative process in her newest book, Morning, Noon and Night: Living the Creative Life which I find to be a very worthwhile read. Not only does Ms.Collins talk about life as in the title of one of her famous songs, Both Sides Now, but she tells her life works from all of her various sides and accomplishments.

Using a typical day divided into morning, noon and night, Ms. Collins describes how her day is influenced by her creative flow which includes, meditation, meals and the time she devotes to her music or writings. It is as if everything she creates comes forth from the creative energy she pursues daily.

I really enjoyed this book. I have long admired Ms. Collins as a voice of the 60's and recently both her fiction and non -- fiction books. To me she epitomizes a Renaissance woman not quite content simply to sing and write songs but to spread out her creative forces to many other aspects of her life. And she seems to do all of these things so well.

While I usually don't quote from a book, I decided to include the following lines from Morning, Noon and Night as an incentive
for readers of this review to read a copy of this book.

"Hope springs eternal they say. As long as I can hope, I can find my way somehow. As long as we can hope, we see around the edges of life as they appear and look for the best, look for the love, look for the light. It is no longer the responsibility of the world around us to make us happy; it is our responsibility to create joy in our lives and we must take what happens to us under all circumstances and find a way to tell the story, to find our way thru the dark, to get thru to our own strength from the failings that come to everyone, no matter how strong or how gifted they are."

Read this book and see for yourself if Judy Collins is not only inspiring and uplifting, but a woman for all times.

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Morning, Noon & Night: Can't Get Enough

Manufacturer: Flowers in Bloom Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Caution: Searing HOT! Do not read this book without a partner nearby for immediate satisfaction.

Sexy, sultry and titillating…Morning, Noon & Night will press your hot buttons. Representing a wide range of styles and voices, these narratives offer a steamy assortment of fiction that will fulfill your every fantasy.

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