Triage: A Novel

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An unusual and powerful book

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Triage: A Novel
Scott Anderson
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Binding: Paperback
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There's a whole lot of triage going on in Scott Anderson's debut novel. First, there is the triage at the small Kurdish hospital where Mark Walsh, a wounded American war photographer, has been brought, in the wake of a battle between Kurdish separatists and Iraqi troops: those men deemed unlikely to survive by the woefully overworked and underequipped doctor in charge are summarily shot. Then there is the triage Mark himself performs after returning to the States as he goes through his various shots, sorting out which images will make the cut. Finally, there is the central mystery of what Mark saw and did during his time in Kurdistan--events so traumatic they continue to haunt him even after his physical wounds have healed. Though there appears to be no medical reason for it, Mark can't walk, and his Spanish girlfriend, Elena, is eventually forced to accept help from her estranged grandfather, Joachim--a psychiatrist who helped "purify" the consciences of Franco's fascist officers following the Spanish civil war.

Eventually the three travel together to Spain, where Mark, with Joachim's help, must face the secret he cannot bear to remember. As Joachim and Mark slowly forge a relationship with each other, they also strengthen their separate bonds to Elena. But as each man reveals his experience of war to the other, it becomes clear that when well-intentioned men commit evil acts--even for the best of reasons--there will always be a high price to pay.

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In this hypnotically beautiful debut novel, Mark, a young war photographer, returns to New York after being slightly injured in a Third World brushfire war. He had spent a few frightening days in the recovery ward of a dilapidated, overcrowded hospital, but can this explain his sleeplessness, distraction, his wounds' inability to heal? Elena, Mark's Spanish girlfriend, grows more and more alarmed by his strange behavior, while she also tries to calm her pregnant friend Diane, whose photographer husband has gone missing in the same war zone.

As Mark continues to deteriorate, Elena's grandfather sweeps onto the scene. Joaquin is the last person from whom Elena wants to accept help; once very close to him, she ended all contact after learning of his role in "purifying" conscience-stricken officers after the Spanish Civil War. In treating Mark, Joaquin sees a way back into his granddaughter's life, and, despite Elena's disapproval, the two men begin to forge an extraordinary relationship. Eventually, all three travel to Joaquin's manor home in southern Spain so that Mark can find a safe haven in which to heal. It is in this romantic and haunted Spanish valley where both men's secrets surface with life-altering force and where Mark and Elena attempt to know and love each other again.

Reminiscent of the work of Tim O'Brien and Philip Caputo, this stunning novel is informed by Scott Anderson's experiences reporting on combat around the globe. A literary page-turner about the aftermath of war in the lives of survivors and their loved ones, Triage introduces a major new voice in American fiction.

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Favourite Book!.......2005-07-27

I remember reading Triage back when I was in year 12, while I was a student at an East Melbourne High School in Australia. The book inspired me to write using the style Anderson uses, with twisting plots, psychological walkthroughs and suspenseful climaxes.

If you are a student in high school at the moment, and enjoy English, I suggest you read this book. It should be part of the High School curriculum everywhere.

An unusual and powerful book.......2001-07-09

This is an (at times) painfully honest and true story. On the surface, it's about Anderson's war time experiences as a free lance photo-journalist mostly in Bosnia but also in Chehnya.

This is a very personal account, really a memoir. Anderson is very open about his heroin addiction, and his addiction to the experiences he encounters in the Balkans. You cannot help but be deeply affected by his writing, his experiences, and his honesty in sharing these with the reader.

Beautifully written.......2000-11-16

I am a teacher of senior English at a country high school in Australia, and we were as always searching for a novel that will both enlighten and engage. After months of frustrating searching we happened upon this little book and thought, "At last! - something truly human and significant." Its value lies in its apparent simplicity and its small cast of well drawn characters. But of course the novel has an authority and depth of intellect that make for a most satisfying experience. There is much to consider here - the way we hide behind the comforting distortions of the past, our collective amnesia when faced with the facts of atrocity and our complicty in it, the moral ambiguities of war - among others.

All this would be just so much interesting speculation were it not for the compelling narrative that gradually unfolds. It is Anderson's artistry and his sympathy for all his characters, no matter their background, that challenges us also. Their needs and conflicts, their struggle against the despair and lonliness that are ever-present, their search for resolution and forgiveness, are entirely engrossing. Anderson's lack of sentimentality and his unwillingness to fall back upon the evasions of comfortable middle-class morality add to the novel's conviction. Great stuff.

I only hope that our students come to admire this book as we do. As for possible readers, this is one to savour and enjoy. If you allow it, it will stay with you for a long time after you finish the final page.

Anderson hits the nail on the head.......1999-11-12

After experiencing the war in the former Yugoslavia as a humanitarian worker, I truly doubted that anyone could write something that would go to the heart of what I had experienced. This is a truly remarkable work.

Truly moving.......1999-09-02

Scott Anderson opens your eyes to what happens to those who can't blink or turn away from the violence of war. He blends this with a touching story of love & redemption. It is a book that hurts, mends, touches, grasps and haunts. Scott is writing what he lives & we can't wait for more.

Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism (Critical American Studies Series)

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Our Cities Need Attention Too
courageous, fiercely honest take on race in America

Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism (Critical American Studies Series)
James Kyung-Jin Lee
Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0816641811

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In the 1980s, America witnessed an explosion in the production, popularity, and influence of literary works by people of color and a decadelong economic downturn that severely affected America's inner cities and the already disadvantaged communities of color that lived there. Marked by soaring levels of unemployment, homelessness, violence, drug abuse, and despair, this urban crisis gave the lie to the American dream, particularly when contrasted with the success enjoyed by the era's iconic stockbrokers and other privileged groups, whose fortunes increased dramatically under Reaganomics.

In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee explores how these parallel trends of literary celebration and social misery manifested themselves in fictional narratives of racial anxiety by focusing on four key works: Alejandro Morales's The Brick People, John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire, Hisaye Yamamoto's "A Fire in Fontana," and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Each of these fictions, he finds, addresses the decade's racial, ethnic, and economic inequities from differing perspectives: Morales's revisions of Chicano identity, Yamamoto's troubled invocation of the affinities between African Americans and Asian Americans, the problematic connections between black intellectuals and the black community aired by Wideman, and Wolfe's satirization of white privilege. Drawing on the fields of literary criticism, public policy, sociology, and journalism, Lee deftly assesses the success with which these multicultural fictions engaged in the debates over these issues and the extent to which they may actually have alienated the very communities that their creators purported to represent.

Challenging both the uncritical celebration of abstract multiculturalism and its simpleminded vilification, Lee roots Urban Triage in specific instances of multiracial contact and deeply informed readings of works that have been canonized within ethnic studies and of those that either remain misunderstood or were misguided from the start.

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Our Cities Need Attention Too.......2005-12-07

As Katrina reminded us, America's cities are in trouble, with the poorest and nonwhite residents most at risk. How did things get this way? What good is fiction in the face of such misery and neglect? James Lee tackles these difficult questions with unusual grace, subtly exploring how writers of color gained praise in the 1980s just as the urban communities they wrote about were being eviscerated by Reagan and his policies. While this book focuses on the 1980s, it continues to reverberate today in often tragic ways, as we have not stopped dividing our failures into three: those that need immediate assistance, those that can wait, and those that are beyond hope. This is required reading for anyone who believes the third category should not be growing quite so fast!

courageous, fiercely honest take on race in America.......2004-06-15

Urban communities of color--communities under political and economic siege-produced our great American literatures in the last decades of the twentieth century. Lee reveals the fierce embattled beauty of these places and their books. With sobering precision and compelling moral vision, he maps out the artistry, anxiety, inspiration, loss, and contradiction which are all a part of what Stevie Wonder called "living just enough for the city." This book courageously indicts neo-conservatism's massive looting of civic wealth as a crime against American humanity.

TRIAGE.(Review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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TRIAGE.(Review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00098KTG8
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 310 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: TRIAGE.(Review)
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: 37 Issue: 5 Page: 87(1)

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That woman, it turns out, is important to another party on the scene: Mr. Patrice. Who, in his turn, appears to run a lot of the City. Doc knows he holds some kind of unusual power. Mr. Patrice knows it too. So does the beautiful Ginevra Benci. And so does the sorcerous Whisper-Who-Dares, who offers threats and temptations far beyond anything Doc ever imagined. By turns brutal and delicate, murderous and metaphysical, The Last Hot Time is a fantasy novel unlike any other, a brilliant dance of genres and storylines leading to a thoroughly unusual conclusion.

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A Little Bit Sketchy.......2006-09-16

My problem with this book is that there isn't quite ENOUGH of it. That is why I called this review what I did.

This is a coming-of-age novel and there are those, critics and readers both, who profess to find flaws in coming-of-age novels. Some people just don't like them and they prolly won't like this one either.

The setting is a place where cultures meeet. Of course, every REAL place, except a tribal village, is a place where cultures meet but THESE cultures are meeting at a somewhat even score and at breakneck speed. Three of these cultures are Urban near-future Chicago (which is more than one culture, itself, needless to say) the culture of the rural Midwest (which is ALWAYS engaged in meeting Chicago and vive versa) and, lastly, an Elfland returned from the mists.

Oh, you say, you don't READ fantasy. Well, go to Hell, he said politely. There are many characters who border on caricature. In fact, they blow right past caricature and come out on the other side as archetypes, teaching things about the soul. There is a romance subplot involving the coming-of-age protagonist and I find it HOT but I am like that. There is a cliche or two involved but they resonate, make the subplot stronger rather than weaker.

And, finally, the novel is other than a coming-of-age novel. Oh, it IS that but it is also a novel about power and society and warlords and what happens to you outside the rule of law. And the novel says powerful things about those issues and about healing and love and killing and vengeance and forswearing vengeance. And those ARE the things the apes-on-the-ground do most and often need to know the most about.

And Ford lets you see this happening without knowing it is going to happen. You are in the middle of this farm kid's coming of
age and you are also in the middle of what Machiavelli and Sun Tzu and Heinlein talked about.

And the title is so much like _The Last Good Kiss_ that I wondered. And, as I read the book it was clear. No plagiarism, obviously, but Ford has read Crumley and he SAYS so, right here:

"It shouldn't be possible to forget, given all the strings around our fingers: Hammett, Chandler, Crumley, Macdonald and McDonald. Not to mention Oedipus the King."

Add John M. Ford. And read this book.

Hot Time in Old Town Tonight.......2005-07-25

Very well written-- Ford is an excellent stylist, but I can not for the life of me figure out why the elves are drawn to gangland- prohibition style. The characters are drawn with a minimalist hand, the back ground is sketchy. Sometimes Ford indulges in a bit of exposition to let the reader catch up with Ford's knowledge of Chicago's history.

Seems like this is supposed to be a part of something deeper and richer.

So take it for what it is and enjoy it but if you end up scratching your head and wondering what the heck is going on here-- you've been warned.

The safeword is 'power'.......2005-02-24

I've seen this "contemporary fantasy" (as the cover copy calls it) compared to the Borderland series, but it's not that except in the most superficial background sense. Elfland has reappeared in our world from its parallel dimension to the general detriment of human society. Danny, nineteen years old, a trained EMT, and too bitter for his age, journeys from Iowa to the nearest point of contact with the Shade, in Chicago, where he becomes part of the entourage of Mr. Patrise, a partly bent, partly noble power in this new world. There he becomes Doc Hallow, repairing wounds caused by gunshot and other, less Worldly forces in the struggle between Truebloods and humans. And that's about all the real plot there is. The real point in reading this darkly magical book is to experience the characters who inhabit it, to enjoy the interplay among them, to observe what magic does to people and non-people alike. Doc has his own deep secrets that keep him from loving, but he also has a strain of glowing personality that leads people to defer to him unexpectedly. Ford is an artist with fairy dust on his brush.

You figure it out.......2003-05-26

Contemporary fantasy set in a future in which some sort of catastrophe has occurred and elves have returned to the world. Story takes place in a lavish gangland environment on the border between the two worlds (human & elvish). Excellent book in many ways except the author appears to like being clever a little bit too much. He leaves many things to inference, which is sometimes useful, sometimes a conceit. Still, the world is fascinating and the story engrossing.

Inimitable.......2002-10-01

Leave it to one of the genre's true originals to write an urban "elves-in-civilization" novel four or five years after the trend died and still make it a success. What genre is John M. Ford? Who knows. That's part of what makes him a true original.

This is a fully realized world, although we don't get a full glimpse at every detail. He keeps us just outside, telling us what we need to know for the story and leaving much to mystery. Not because he wants a sequel, I think, but just because, well, how much do we really know about our own world? His characters exposition enough to get us by, each one giving us a hint at the world, making a beautiful tapestry.

At any rate, it's his mastery of character and ability to create magic with dialogue is what pulls you along, not the story. These are some of the most vivid characters this side of Charles Dickens.

My one complaint about the book, the only thing that brings it down to 4 stars, is the somewhat pat and rather forced feeling of the ending. Suffice it to say, I can't say just what bothered me about it, but trust me, it was a bit of a let-down. The rest of the book is more than worth the price of admission, though.

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THE LAST HOT TIME
John M. Ford
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Hot donors: climate for giving better than last summer.(Fundraising): An article from: The Non-profit Times
Gale Reference Team
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Release Date: 2006-10-24

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This digital document is an article from The Non-profit Times, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 768 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Hot donors: climate for giving better than last summer.(Fundraising)
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The darkest celebrations of Tennessee Williams: A study of Battle of Angels, Orpheus descending, A streetcar named desire, Camino real, Cat on a hot time roof and Suddenly last Summer

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The darkest celebrations of Tennessee Williams: A study of Battle of Angels, Orpheus descending, A streetcar named desire, Camino real, Cat on a hot time roof and Suddenly last Summer
Leonard S Quirino
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Teenagers Shiina and Akira have become fast friends, due in no small part to their bonds with two shape-shifting alien star-creatures. But their small friends are not the only visitors from beyond, nor are Shiina and Akira the only kids connected to them. Roaming the skies are powerful and dangerous Shadow Dragons, and one is linked with a schoolmate of the girls, a malevolent boy with murder in his heart — and a deadly, flying dragon at his command to make it happen!

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Further adventures of the distressed heroes and villains.......2007-05-04

Shadow Star's sophomore volume, which takes a much darker and more serious tone than the first book but still not nearly as alarming as those to come, once again captivates readers with its unique plot and characters. These kids are no likely protagonists or antagonists. They have family problems, self-esteem problems, school problems, emotional problems, and, in the case of self-cutter Akira Sakura, even physical problems. Yet here they are, controlling huge aliens known as shadow dragons, two groups of dragon bearers caught in a dangerous war--one group wanting to expand the world, and the other wanting to destroy it and start all over again.

Here, young teen heroines and fast friends Shiina and Akira, who possess young dragons yet are blissfully unaware of the conflict brewing, encounter a member of that latter group for the first time. Shiina remembers his razor-sharp sword dragon from an airborne fight in volume 1, and leaps straight in to destroy it. "Just because you fight with all your heart doesn't mean you can always win," she tells herself after getting mercilessly thrashed by the boy Komori's creature. Once again author and artist Mohiro Kitoh takes us into the depths of the human mind, also touching on modern society's unrepairable damage and complexity. Komori hates brave and perceptive Shiina, but asks shy and insecure Akira to join him in building his new empire. His bloody death by the hands (or fins, if you prefer) of Shiina's dragon Hoshimaru, as well as his own proclamation about others like he, is enough to let readers know that this isn't the last we'll see of evil dragons. Cue a meeting of three slightly older bearers: wise and distant Sudo Naozumi, silly jester Kazuyuki Takano, and haughty private schooler Satomi Ozawa. Not much is revealed about them in this one chapter, but more light is shed on the motives and thoughts of those with such demented ideals.

Mohiro Kitoh's art style and storytelling are both top-notch, with expert pacing and gangly characters who act much tougher than they look. While at this place in the series there are bound to be many questions, the subtle exposition is enough to keep the pages turning for quite a while. As a whole this one is darker than its predecessor, but no worse in its technique, and anyone who has been convinced otherwise would fare well to give it some extra thought.

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Cowboy burgers suck

Cooking "Rond the Clock" Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals

A Great Cookbook for a Person Who's New to Cooking and Willing to Buy Lots of Ingredients

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Cooking 'Round the Clock: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals
Rachael Ray
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Rachael Ray is a household name and a best-selling author, thanks to her simply fabulous recipes, free-hand style of cooking, and unfailing good results. This latest collection of recipes, a companion book to her show, will feature flexible menus for cooking great meals 24/7.

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Cowboy burgers suck.......2007-10-01

The only reciepe I've made from this book was the Cowboy turkey burgers. It was awful, it ended up being a stir fry and I just ate the "burgers" with a fork. Gross. Since I'm a novice cook, I wasn't able to adjust the reciepe in time to save the meal.

One saving grace is the fact it's organized by "time" rather than indexed. Terrible for people looking for something specific, but for us "browsers" this is a fun way of searching. I also took the liberty of pairing each menu title with an appropriate movie. For instance the "Monster Munchies" menu I paired with the movie "Godzilla". That was the funnest part, matching her menu titles to movies I would love to share with friends. Like the show "Dinner & a Movie". In this way, you can make it even MORE fun when you are browsing for the perfect reciepe to share with friends.

Cooking "Rond the Clock" Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals.......2007-03-22

My wife loves it. She has been using only this book since she got it. Great meals!!! She's lost 5 lbs. since she started using it.Cooking 'Round the Clock: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals

A Great Cookbook for a Person Who's New to Cooking and Willing to Buy Lots of Ingredients.......2007-02-10

In Cooking 'Round the Clock, the irrepressible Rachael Ray fills every hour with fun in the kitchen and joy in the eating. This woman is a whirlwind! She gets you off to a fast start on that conclusion when she relates how she didn't sleep as a child . . . but would sneak down to cook in the middle of the night. And she's still a night owl, often writing her many cookbooks while you and I are abed. True to her roots, everything in this book can be produced in 30 minutes or less. Don't let the long ingredient lists fool you on that point: Items are mostly mixed together and quickly prepared at that point.

The book is organized around times of the day, mostly providing short menus, but sometimes varying that approach with a list of recipes. Here are the sections:

7-11 a.m. Rise & Shiners has sections on seven forms of scrambled eggs, a champagne menu, three kinds of hash, three sweet breakfast items, continental breakfast breads, and heavier dishes (oatmeal, ham steaks, and toast stacks with eggs and bacon)

11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Lunch delivers three brunch menus, seven lunch menus, two great heavy-duty salads, lots of sandwich recipes, three soups, a taste of Italian and French food

4-7 p.m. Early-Bird Specials covers 18 menus with a variety of classic American and ethnic (English, Chinese, Italian, and Mexican) dishes plus three hearty "stoups"

7-9 p.m. Sit-Down Suppers has eleven menus cover the range from steak to burgers while hitting turkey, chicken, and fish in between. There are four other recipes (chili, chicken and couscous, chicken salad, and polenta and mozzarella)

7-12 p.m. TV Dinners & Snacks is filled with the foods we all eat in from of the television (nachos, pizza, subs, popcorn, dips, appetizer munchies, and various wraps)

9-12 Bistro Meals takes you on a world tour of great eating menus (bourbon-orange chicken, tuna marinara, duck salad, Cuban-spiced pork, and French-style cod)

12-7 a.m. Late-Nite Bites is all recipes (7 kinds of tartines for the toaster oven, quick "gnocchi," pita-based pizzas for the toaster oven, more eggs dishes, Mexican coffee, cheese-based entrees like welsh rarebit, and pasta carbonara)

Are you feeling full yet?

Unlike her earlier cookbooks, I found the flavor experiences in most of these recipes to be less adventuresome. But there were quite a few recipes where I was intrigued by the combination of flavor and speed that she offers:

Green Eggs and Ham (pp. 30-31)
Oatmeal Cookie Pancakes (p. 43)
Orange and Almond Scones (p. 45)
Mixed Greens with Balsamic Vinegar and Strawberries (p. 64)
Smoked Turkey Waldorf Salad (p. 65)
Curried Cashew-Chicken Salad (p. 66)
Shrimp on Chicken Caesar Romaine Lettuce Wraps (p. 69)
Fruit Soup (p. 70)
Bombay Brunch Wrap (p. 79)
Cobb Sandwiches (p. 80)
30-Minute Shepherd's Pie (p. 94)
Baked Stuffed Flounder (p. 108)
Shrimp Newburg (p. 131)
Mixed Green Salad with Gorgonzola Dressing (p. 137)
Chicken, Chorizo, and Tortilla "Stroup" (p. 148)
Gorgonzola and Sage Sirloin Burgers (p. 151)
Chili Verde (p. 154)
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus and Crudités (p. 167)
Bittersweet Dijon-Dressed Salad (p. 183)
Haddock with Bacon, Onions, and Tomatoes (p. 184)
Gorgonzola and Walnut Spaghetti (p. 186)
Cuban-Spiced Pork Tenderloin and Soffrito Rice (pp. 202-203)
Veggie Scrambles with Pesto (p. 224)
Green Ranch-Hand Eggs (p. 228)
Rigatoni Carbonara (pp. 236-237)

The rest of the dishes seemed potentially interesting, but seemed a bit too close to the standards to provide much excitement of variety. But these could easily be staples for those who don't yet know how to do the standards.

If you love turkey-based items and lots of Italian sauces and cheeses, you'll be quite pleased with what you find here.

But you won't save much time unless you look over the recipes you want to try and assemble the ingredients in advance. My cupboard and refrigerator don't have much in the way of items like fresh ginger root, scallions, cream, fresh parsley, brandy, nutmeg, garlic pickles, sausage, whole-berry cranberry sauce, pierogi, kielbasa, kale, sauerkraut, fresh chives, or fresh dill. These are just some of the ingredients listed on pages 92-100.

I'm pretty sure I can buy all of these at my supermarket, but I would need to put a special shopping list to be able to launch into a 30-minute meal preparation.

Enjoy!

Just ok..........2006-12-10

I bought this book used at a local bookstore and was extremely excited to try it out. I am a fan of the show on Food Network as well as Rachel's new talk show. I was a little dissappointed though because I didn't have most of the ingredients required to make any of the recipes. A lot of the ingredients (I think) most busy people would not have in their pantries. I guess I expected simpler meals where I didn't have to buy fancy and expensive ingredients that I may not ever use again. I will admit, you can get some excellent ideas from the book.

hard to use.......2006-09-23

The recipes are fine, but the book does not contain an index or a table of contents. Recipes are organized by time of day you might want to make them. If you read cookbooks cover to cover then you'll be ok. The only way to find a recipe is to flip through every page in the book.

Cooking 'round The Clock - 30-minute Meals

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Cooking 'round The Clock - 30-minute Meals
Rachael Ray
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Binding: Paperback
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Rachael Ray
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