The Peace & Power of Knowing God's Name

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The Peace & Power of Knowing God's Name
Kay Arthur
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The Peace and Power of Knowing God's Name

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The Peace and Power of Knowing God's Name
Kay Arthur
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ASIN: 1578565502
Release Date: 2002-10-15

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Why do we hesitate to run to the arms of our all-sufficient God?
Why is it that so many collapse in the day of trouble and testing?
Why are we immobilized in the face of fear?

I think it’s because most of us don’t really know our God. We don’t understand his great power and might. We don’t comprehend his fierce love and unspeakable tenderness. And because we don’t know him as we should, we don’t trust in him.

With every fiber of my being I believe that every problem in our lives can be traced back to an inadequate or incorrect knowledge of God, or a lack of faith and trust in his person and his ways. We know so little of this wonderful God who loves us!

Beloved, if your heart is constantly troubled, if fear lurks in the shadows of your consciousness, if you are exhausted and in despair–come with me. Within these pages, we will explore together God’s names in Scripture. And in the end, you will know far more than his names. You will know his boundless joy, power, peace, and presence.
--Kay Arthur

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Wonderful gift for yourself or friend!.......2006-06-13

I bought this book awhile back and keep starting to give it as a gift to dear friends, but am held back because I read and re-read it myself. What a blessing it has been to me! I highly recommend this book.

A Book to Treasure or Give to a Friend.......2003-04-25

This beautifully written and illustrated book gives 15 names by which we may call God. A chapter is devoted to each name helping us see God in that aspect of his being in relation to His human creatures.

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After years of fighting against rival kingdoms and Jarnish invaders, the warrior Sulien ap Gwien and her lord King Urdo had finally won the peace of Tir Tanagiri, through great strength of arms and vision. But where many see a hopeful future, others sense the seeds of a new tyranny.

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A worthy sequel.......2006-02-23

Walton's sequel to The King's Peace is in some ways a superior novel to its predecessor. The plot is more precise, focusing in on a specific event and time, while the storyline in the first unfolded over two decades. It presents a sufficient antagonist in Morthu, who, although he appeared in the first novel, had a minor role. It also touches on the unspoken subplot of the first novel, Sulien's affection for Urdo, therefore making it a more personal story. I think that Walton may have missed an opportunity by not exploring this premise futher. I infer that Sulien loved Urdo not just as a king but as a man, and he felt the same way, and if not for the trauma she experienced as a teen and his duty as a warlord then they may have had a life together. Imagine how hard that must be, to love someone but be unable to express it. I think that is why Emer and Conal are important, because they are also starcrossed lovers who take the plunge, unlike Sulien and Urdo, with mixed results. At any rate, The King's Name is entertaining, gritty fiction, featuring better action than the first novel and a more developed hero in Sulien. I wonder if both novels were originally one novel that the publishing house decided to split arbitrarily--it feels that way, at least to me. My minor gripe pertains to Sulien's interactions with the gods, which seem so ambiguous, fleeting, and frustrating to the reader. It must be a rule in fantasy: Make any scene with a god as confusing as possible.

Excellent work.......2005-05-13

Combine the world of Kate Elliott with the quick pacing of Anne Bishop and you have the outstanding work of Jo Walton. This novel follows the King's Peace, but it stands on its own and is better, which is saying quite a bit, given that I'd put both on my top ten list. It grabs you in the space of exactly one sentence - literally. I challenge the following: Pick it up, read the first sentence and then put it down. Impossible. Then, minutes into it, the reader genuinely cares about the heroin, making this the kind of thing that has you going to work the next day with only two hours of sleep. Thanks Jo.

Excellent concluding book.......2003-04-15

No need to summarize the plot, as other reviewers have more than done that. Walton has taken the Arthurian story and placed it in a different world - apparently as one possibility in an infinity of multiple possibilities, assuming I understand correctly something a half crazy oracle says toward the end.
Like another reviewer, I am just as happy not to see the Guenivere/Lancelot part of the legend retold. But Mordred/Morthu is there, with enhanced powers.

I had resisted reading these books because I thought that I knew enough about Arthur from other renditions of the legend. But there are enough side characters and ancillary plots to make this a truly different retelling. And Sulien ap Gwien is a strong and sympathetic character. It would be a pleasure to read something about her later life, though this doesn't look likely.

My only quibble is that the author introduces lots of tribal names and place names, but there is no map. Also, there are hundreds of named individuals, or at least it seems that way. Since a character can be named by first name (Sulien) or by father's name (ap Gwien), it becomes really confusing to keep track of the minor characters, especially since so many names begin with C or G. Here a chart grouping them at least by family, or tribe, or kingdom, or anything, would be nice.

Keeping the peace.......2003-02-06

The King's Name is another excellent novel by Jo Walton. This novel, sequel to The King's Peace, takes all of the strengths of its predecessor and leaves most of the weaknesses behind. It's a worthy addition to any fantasy fan's bookshelf.

I thought that this book was marvelous. Walton's characterization is wonderful, with the many different people populating this book having enough distinction that it isn't that hard to tell them apart. There are, at times, difficulties in remembering which side some of the characters are on, but it's not a major issue and it becomes easier as you go along in the novel. None of the minor characters are truly three-dimensional, but they all have some sort of hook that distinguishes them from the rest of the pack. I really liked that aspect of it.

The characterization of the leads is another standout. The tale is told in first person by Sulien, so everything is coloured by her interpretations. She's a very deep character with some humour and a lot of loyalty to Urdo and her friends (as long as the friends aren't on the other side of the war). She's very interesting to read about, and seeing her reactions to the events that are going on is what makes the book worth reading. Her son, Darien, is widely believed to be the son of Urdo (though he's actually the son of Ulf, a Jarnsman warrior who raped her when she was much younger) and her reaction to hearing that Darien had been named by Urdo as his heir is great. It was a bit jarring to see how easy her relationship with Darien was considering that The King's Peace didn't really end with the relationship being any warmer than it had been at the beginning. But that quickly fell by the wayside as I got caught up in the story.

Urdo is the same wise king that he was in the first book as well. There is an element of love and hero-worship in the book as far as he is concerned, mainly due to the point of view from which the book is told. Her earlier rape completely destroyed any interest in sex and love as far as Sulien is concerned, but Urdo would have to be the closest she ever came to it. Still, even with the rose-coloured glasses that the reader has to look at Urdo through, he still comes across as a kind, intelligent and determined king whose only wish is to keep the land together.

The villain of the piece, Morthu, is a decent one. He's not the most complex character, with a lust for power that isn't totally explained, but he's still interesting. He's shifty, devious, and very charming. His lies are easily believed. Walton does a good job of keeping the uncertainty in the question of whether or not Morthu is a sorcerer. Does he have great magical powers or does he just have the same magic charms from the gods that everybody else seems to have? I loved this aspect of it, and I also really enjoyed cheering against Morthu. He was a very credible threat to everything, which not all fantasy books are able to manage.

The plot is also very intriguing and well told. One of the bad things about the previous book was that the events spanned many years, so a lot of it was told in flashback by Sulien. The King's Name doesn't have that problem, as it takes place in only a matter of weeks. The previous book had a lot of ground to cover as Urdo worked to unite the land, but this one has only one campaign to worry about. It's very tightly told and Walton doesn't waste any time or verbiage in the telling. There is a lot of fighting, but the graphic descriptions of it are kept to a minimum (though there are some, so if you can't stand any, you may want to avoid this book). Walton's style is very sparse, but it gets the job done. There are times where the prose doesn't need to be wonderful, as long as the story is interesting. This is one of those times, as I found the story so fascinating that I didn't care that the prose wasn't lovely. I also really liked the fact that the book is told ostensibly as a history book, "from the writings of Sulien ap Gwien." There's even an introduction that "questions" whether or not the writing was really done by Sulien. I thought that was a nice touch.

Again, as in The King's Peace, I loved the story's take on religion. Many people are converting to "The White God" and "taking the pebble" to indicate this. There are, however, many people who are happy with the gods they already had and continue to follow them. All of the magic in the book is basically charms and prayers said in an attempt to reach the particular god the person prays to. There's a bit more of a hands-on feel to these religious systems, and while the White God is never shown, the reader gets the sense that He's a bit more hands-on as well. But the story never takes sides, and one of Urdo's main ideas for Tir Tanagiri is to allow the complete freedom of worship. I found that to be very refreshing, as Walton never tries to elevate one religion over another.

If you are a fantasy fan, I think you will like this book. It is better than the first, but you really should read the first one before this. It's not necessary, however, as the introduction referred to above also does a good job of summarizing what happened. Check it out. I think you'll like it.

a powerful and compelling read.......2002-01-18

"King's Name" is a sequel to "King's Peace" and is a retelling of the darker part of the Arthurian legend -- the bit where the dream of a kingdom united under one king and one law falls apart because of treachery form within the kingdom. And in case you've forgotten either the events and characters from "King's Peace," Jo Walton has provided a thumbnail sketch of everything that happened in "King's Peace" in the introduction to "King's Name."

King Urdo's dream of a united kingdom and peace for the nation of Tir Tanagiri, seems to be on the brink of destruction. And this time the threat is not from barbarian invaders, but from within. While many acknowledge that Urdo has brought peace and unity, and that his laws are just ones, others see only the thirst for absolute power and tyranny. There is also the fear that Urdo will force all his subjects to convert to this new religion of light and the one god. Fanned by fear, greed and Morthu (Urdo's treacherous nephew)'s treasonous whispering, Urdo's erstwhile friends and enemies seem poised to start a civil war. And now it is up to Sulien ap Gwien, once Urdo's most trusted of warriors and his right hand, to put a stop to this treason, and to fight for Urdo's dream of a united kingdom to remain a reality.

"King's Name" keeps pretty much to the parameters of the Arthurian legend. Nothing really terribly new or different in the manner in which the plot of "King's Name" unfolds. So why read this novel? Because it is always thrilling and poignant to read such tales. The Arthurian legend was a powerful one of hope and promise, as well as a poignant one of betrayal and treachery. And I was relieved to note that Jo Walton (thank goodness) has not bothered to include her version of the 'doomed' love affair between Guinevere and Lancelot (am I the only person bored with this "love" story?). She's concentrated instead on the dream that Urdo/Arthur had for a kingdom united under one law, the compromises that Urdo and his followers had to make in order to realise this dream, and how the failure to understand these compromises as well as the new laws, leads Urdo's erstwhile allies (and his greedy enemies) to try and topple him from the throne. We get to see how this splinters families as well as once close friends, as the entire kingdom splits into those who support their king and those back his would-be usurpers. I enjoyed "King's Peace" very much, and found "King's Name" to be a satisfying finish to this retelling of the Arthurian legend. Events unfolded smoothly, and the authour maintained a tight control on the pacing and action. She also did a wonderful job in character development. And while the chief protagonist, Sulien ap Gwien, remains the brusque and to the point warrior we're all familiar with from "King's Peace," other characters (such as Sulien's mother and her son) are fleshed more. And this gave the novel a level of texture and complexity that enhanced the reading pleasure.

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Fr. John Augustine Lubey, August 1, 1916-July 27, 1999. Father Lubey was a priest in the Archdiocese of Washington, DC from 1943 until 1999. This book about his life and his Healing Ministry offers stories of healings; prophecies; holilies given by Father Lubey; pictures; blessings; and a meditation from one of God's beloved servants.

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In the Name of Peace
Archie Johnstone
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Archie Johnstone, describes his World War I experiences, his disgust with post World War II Europe, and his defection from his Press Department job in the British Embassy in Moscow to work with the Soviet Union. The book gives Johnstones's life history and his hope for world peace; he notes that the Stalinists wanted peace more than the Brits and Truman ever did. Originally published in 1952.

In the Name of Peace: Collective Statement on war and Peace, 1919-1980

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In the Name of Peace: Collective Statement on war and Peace, 1919-1980
United States Catholic Bishops
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In the Name of Peace: Collective Statements of United States Catholic Bishops on War and Peace 1919-1980 No. 861

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This masterful biography by one of America`s foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book is also a political history of the United States during a period of transforming change when women worked to end the abuses of unregulated industrial capitalism. In the first of two volumes, Sklar describes how earlier generations set the stage for women`s centrality in the 1890s and depicts the first forty years of Florence Kelley`s life.

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OPENED MY EYES

Fabulous reporting, no whining to be found

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Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
Naomi Wolf
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In The Beauty Myth the fearless Naomi Wolf revolutionized the way we think about beauty. In Misconceptions, she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers of the OB/GYN establishment lacked compassion. The weeks after her first daughter’s birth taught her how society, employers, and even husbands can manipulate new mothers. She had bewildering post partum depression, but learned that a surprisingly high.percentage of women experience it.
Wolf’s courageous willingness to talk about the unexpected difficulties of childbirth will help every woman become a more knowledgeable planner of her pregnancy and better prepare her for the challenges of balancing a career, freedom, and a growing family. Invaluable in its advice to parents, Misconceptions speaks to anyone connected–personally, medically, or professionally–to a new mother.

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OPENED MY EYES.......2007-09-20

If you're pregnant and don't care if your ob/gyn pumps you full of meds and performs an episiotomy on you and/or a c-section in order to better fit your baby's birth into his busy schedule, then don't read this book. My wife is probably as far from being a rabid feminist as a person can be. But she does happen to have this wacky idea that giving birth ought to be something a woman can do without a whole lot of unnecessary medical interventions, if she wants to. My wife has given birth naturally to all 3 of our kids -- no problems whatsoever for either mom or babies. And every time she's had to fight off the ob/gyn's suggested interventions. Interventions she might not have been able to argue against had she not read Naomi's book and other resources and educated herself about the American medical establishment's typical ob/gyn practices. To blow off this book as a lot of feminist hooey is akin to plugging your ears, covering your eyes and ranting NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA...I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Read this book, get informed and then make up your own mind as to how you want to approach your own berthing experience.

Fabulous reporting, no whining to be found .......2007-08-28

Hopefully, you've reached this review, because to read some of the other reviews on this page you might dismiss Naomi Wolf "Misconceptions." This book is a wonderful piece of reporting on the issues surrounding pregnancy, fertility, birth, and the issues that come after birth (no pun intended) for the women in this country. Although, some of the experiences described are uncomfortable and upsetting, it does not make the experiences any less true. All mothers either have had an experience or know a woman who has had an experience similar to the experiences described in this book. To report on these truths (which, by the way, doesn't mean she is reporting the truth for "all" women), is the first step toward remedying the problems.

The truth is that there ARE issues with OB/GYN and postpartum healthcare in this country. You need not look any further than your front page to know that something is wrong. In Pennsylvania, for example, the OB/GYN practices can not stay afloat because the practices can not pay the malpractice insurance. As well, the insurance companies refuse to pay the full cost for a woman's labor and delivery in hospitals. I repeat. Insurance companies will not pay the full cost for one of the most important hospital stays that a woman may ever have in her life, a hospital stay that is required for the propagation of the species and the insurance companies will not pay it. Does this sound like a problem to you?

It certainly isn't new reporting that the medical community sometimes takes the "easy" way out when it comes to women's medical issues. Thankfully, things have started to change, but we are not there yet. Reading this book will give a new mother a "leg-up" on what has been happening in these new areas of her life. Isn't better to arm a new mother with information before she gets started in the process so she can have a say in what happens during HER reproductive life?

By the way, the whole section on "Calling It Fair" is right on the money. The research on day-care during the time of "Rosy the Riveter" is fantastic - I would like to see a book on that topic alone! These gems give women a great perspective to change things for themselves from the beginning! Don't miss a great eye-opener and, hopefully, a catalyst for change.

Great, but a little pessimistic.......2007-06-02

This book is great if you have never spent any time learning about how backwards the US medical establishment is concerning birth. Compared to (literally) the rest of the world, we are far behind in the level of care. What we call the "standard of care" is, in the case of most normal births, not good for mom or baby. This book tells that story. BUT. It is quite negative, and to read this book, you'll think its impossible to have a positive and SAFE birth in a US hospital. It IS possible to do so-- once you are well informed regarding which pieces of the standard of care pose a risk to mom and baby and/or exist merely for the convenience of the doctor or nursing staff. I highly recommend this book, so long as it is read cautiously and with an eye toward giving yourself a positive birth experience.

Contrary to my expectations ..........2007-05-15

I found this book in the Goodwill store and brought it home to read. I have only read one of Naomi Wolf's books (the one about the Treehouse) and have heard of her before, so I thought I would be in for a read. Little did I know that I would be in for a good read. It is controversial. It is stimulating. There are a lot of "ah ha" moments where I found myself nodding my head. There are quite a few moments where I was skeptical and found myself asking friends and family about their birthing moments and hospital stays. I even found myself rolling my eyes when she started talking about misplaced expectations about the birthing moments. Then I found myself counting my lucky stars that I am one of the very few women whose husband actually does help around the house with housework and taking care of the kids. While I am a stay-at-home mom, I do not feel demeaned in any way that I am just a mom at home ~~ no, I feel like a valued partner in a marriage that works. But that's not the point here!

I did have a hard time reconciling myself with the whole hospital institutional experience that she dwelled on for several chapters. Maybe it's luck. Maybe it's just my ignorance. I had excellent care while pregnant and I honestly was high risk since I was carrying twins. I was told upfront that chances are 50-50 that I would have a c-section. I delivered at 32 weeks. I didn't get the beautiful hospital room but I know that just about all of my friends have given birth in gorgeous rooms (even though they are hospital rooms, but they offer a lot more privacy than regular hospital rooms!). As for the high rate of c-sections, episiotomies, or anything like that ~~ I have no experience with statistics on these facts. It does seem to me to be more likely but I am not sure of what I think of that!

There are quite a few moments where I found myself relating to her experiences. Then again, there are times when I am amazed that she felt so different with her c-section than I did ~~ my problems were different than hers and yet, she struggled with her issues just like I did, just in different ways. There was not a doubt in my mind that I wasn't going to go back to work for several years so I was ok with staying home; whereas she struggled with it since she found out she was pregnant. Or her friends struggled with that issue, among others.

This is definitely a thought-provoking book. I wasn't expecting an array of emotions just from reading this book, nor was I expecting to poll my friends asking them if they've read this book. Nor was I expecting to feel guilty that I am one of those women who had a c-section ~~ though in my case, I didn't have much of a choice if I wanted to deliver healthy babies ~~ and they were breech as well. This book stirred up emotions, thoughts and ideas. It's been awhile since I've read something that hits rather close to home and so fascinating as well ~~ it made me wish that I had picked this book up several years ago before my twins were born! Now I wonder just how much have things changed since the first publication of this book.

If you like intellectual books that make you think, this book will definitely fit that bill. Yes, it does come across as whining in places but is it really whining or just stating facts? Isn't being a mother hard enough as it is without having to have others dismiss this book just as a typical whiner's book? We all deal with our issues in different ways and this book is definitely one that makes me think more as a reader and as a mother. It's worth exploring.

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awful.......2006-08-31

This book is so whiny and self-indulgent that I am amazed that Wolf is actually a mother of two kids. It paints an unnecessarily bleak picture of pregnancy and motherhood, which are nowhere near as bad as she makes it out to be. The doctors and nurses and La Leche League and everyone else she complains about in this book are not out to get you, everyone is just trying to do their job the best way they can.

Misconceptions - Truth, Lies, And The Unexpected On The Journey To Motherhood

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Misconceptions - Truth, Lies, And The Unexpected On The Journey To Motherhood
Naomi Wolf
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Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
Naomi Wolf
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MISCONCEPTIONS: TRUTH, LIES, AND THE UNEXPECTED ON THE JOURNEY TO MOTHERHOOD.

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The Way We Cook: Recipes from the New American Kitchen
Sheryl Julian , and Julie Riven
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The "we" of the The Way We Cook are authors Sheryl Julian and Julie Riven, co-creators of a widely popular Boston Globe food column. The book offers over 250 recipes for simple yet attractive fare that's rooted in American home cooking but which also satisfies worldly palates. Thus the couple provides recipes like Grilled Chicken in Lettuce Leaves with Asian Vinaigrette, Braised Beef in Balsamic Vinegar, and Quick Fish Stew with Ginger and Thyme, while also offering recipes for too-good-to-mess-with favorites including Shrimp and Spanish Rice, Hot and Sour Soup, and a particularly good rendering of roast loin of pork with dry fruits. There's also a fine chapter on sides--don't miss the Crusty Smashed Potatoes--and sections on sweets including Sour Cream Coffee Cake, Congo Bars, Ice Cream Pie, and Julie's Mother's Apple Cake. Other cookbooks work the same territory that Julian and Riven do, but The Way We Cook offers exemplary taste, especially well-crafted recipes, and, perhaps above all, a keen response to the modern cook's need to make limited kitchen time count. --Arthur Boehm

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For the past twenty years, in their wildly popular newspaper and cooking columns, Sheryl Julian and Julie Riven have been providing hundreds of thousands of cooks with recipes they can depend on. Now, in this long-awaited cookbook which is an essential reference for anyone who wants to get the most out of time in the kitchen, they present 250 of their favorites. From Roast Side of Salmon to Creamy Chocolate Tart, each dish is straightforward, contemporary, and elegant: home cooking at its best. Julian and Riven have an unerring sense of what busy people need: appetite-provoking nibbles that won't set back dinner preparations; easy meals for the time of day when the cook is most exhausted; impressive but relaxed dinners for company; simple side dishes; slow-cooked suppers served straight from the pot; weekend breakfasts that leave plenty of time for reading the paper; desserts anyone can master. It's all here in The Way We Cook: Appetizers: Spicy Pecans * Honey-Roasted Chicken Wings * Marinated Shrimp in White Wine Vinaigrette Salads: Eggless Caesar Salad * Wilted Spinach Salad * Cucumber and Red Onion Salad When You're in a Rush: Ten-Minute Bolognese * Pork Tenderloins with Caramelized Onions * Chicken Roasted on a Bed of Apples Dishes We Make All the Time: Chicken and Corn Chili * Yankee Pot Roast with Caramelized Vegetables * Old-Fashioned Vegetable Soup New Classics: Succotash with Seared Scallops * Chicken Pot Pie Good Enough for Company: Herb-Roasted Flattened Chicken * Ossobuco * Orange-Marinated Turkey Breast Simmering Pots: Spring Garden Stew * Portuguese Chicken Stew Sides: Asparagus Cooked for Two Minutes * Potato Crisps with Fresh Herbs * Casserole-Roasted Fall Vegetables Rise and Dine: Sour Cream Coffee Cake * Leek and Egg Frittata If You Love to Bake: Lemon Pudding Cake * Free-Form Apple Tart * Double-Chocolate Refrigerator Cookies

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I loved this cookbook.......2004-02-01

I love to cook.
I like to try different books and see how their recipes are.

This one is great, and the recipes are easy to follow and the
ingredients are ones that you would have on "hand" in your home.

I loved how their catgorized it-"meals for when you are in a rush" excellent idea.

I would recommend this to someone who likes to cook but doesn't want to spend the day or the time looking for ingredients that are hard to find.

A Great Source of Good Dishes for Everyday Cooks.......2004-01-09

`the way we cook, Recipes from the New American Kitchen' is written by two food writers / journalists in the Boston area, which gives this somewhat pregnant title the expectation that it is nothing more than a collection of `Boston Globe' food columns. If it were, I would dismiss it with three stars and little comment. The first clue that more is afoot here than culls from the Wednesday food section are the blurbs on the back of the dust jacket from Christopher Kimball, Anne Willan, and Steven Raichlen. Kimball I could expect, being a good old boy Yankee New Englander from way back, but Anne Willan is serious stuff.

The chapter titles are a bit unusual, but they are exactly the range of topics you would expect to find in newspaper food columns. They are:

Appetizers such as deviled eggs, liver pate, ceviche, crab cakes, eggplant caponata, toasts, crackers, etc.
Salads such as Eggless Caesar, French Market Salad, Creamy Potatoe Salad, Fattoush, Greek Cypriot, etc.
When You're in a Rush with Soups, Chicken, Tuna, Salmon, Bass, and Scallops, quick Bolognese, etc.
Dishes We Make All the Time such as Vege Soup, Chili, Yankee Pot Roast, Meatball, Lamb Stew, etc.
New Classics such as Corn Chowder, Oyster Stew, Boulangere, Baked Beans, Salmon Cakes, etc.
Good Enough For Company with Rack of Pork, Leg of Lamb, Ossobuco, Duck Breasts, Roast Salmon, etc.
Simmering Pots with lots of soups and stews such as Cuban Stewed Chicken and Beef Daube, etc.
Sides such as Fresh Corn Risotto, Scalloped Tomatoes, Quick Couscous, Blue Cheese Popovers, etc.
Rise and Dine with Frittatas, Muffins, Soda Bread, Quesadillas, Banana Bread, Blueberry Loaf Cake, etc.
If You Love to Bake with Strawberry Shorkcakes, Carrot Cake, Pies, Tarts, Cookies, Gingerbread, etc.
Simple Fruit Desserts with five recipes for apples, oranges, and peaches.

The first thing which bumped my opinion up from three stars to four was with the description of how to cook hardboiled eggs. For starters, they recommended my preferred method of pricking a hole in the shell and dropping the eggs into just boiling water. Then, they gave the additional tip of rolling the just dropped eggs around a bit in order to center the yolk in the cooked egg. To cap things off, they gave a recommendation on how to crack the hot eggs to make them easier to peel when they cool.

The next thing which warmed my opinion of the book was that I could not find any steps in any recipes which I would do differently. There are few fancy techniques called for in the recipes and almost all of them take no more than a page, but there were also no short cuts.

The last thing which appealed to me was the lack of processed ingredients. All pie crusts are made from scratch and I detected no cans of Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I did find the directions for the pie crusts to be less than perfect, as it was lax in calling for very cold ingredients, combined in such a way to keep them cold and to leave bits of butter to fluff up the crust. But then, this is not a book on pie baking and I'm sure the technuque they give works well enough. Another less than ideal baking recipe was the carrot cake, which called for but a single layer. If I am going to the trouble to make a carrot cake with butter cream icing, I will make three layers for sure.

This is not a book for died in the wool foodies. Were I not reviewing it, I would not buy it myself, but for that very large number of people who need to make good meals at least three times a week and don't have time to wade through 800 pages of `The Joy of Cooking' or `James Beard's American Cookery', this book is just the thing.

I think Steve Raichlen's comparison to Julia Child and Simone Beck is misplaced because the latter duo was doing an in depth survey of a very specific local cuisine while the current authors are collecting recipes originating from all over the world and presenting them for a particular audience. So, their emphasis is on a specific audience rather than a specific cuisine. Sorry Steve.

This is an excellent book which accomplishes it's mission at a reasonable price. Just be warned that this is NOT low carb or low fat cooking, just very tasty cooking.

Unbelievable Photos.......2003-12-15

I don't even cook, but the photography motivates me to give it a try. These are fantastic looking dishes! I want to find more of this photographer's work.

The relaxed approach.......2003-09-24

The first cool crispness of fall sends many home cooks back to the kitchen, eager to cook something new and different. Julian and Riven, who write a weekly column for the Boston Globe's food section, understand this seasonal urge for something new to cook. Their first book is designed for "accomplished" and busy home cooks and features straightforward, unfussy recipes with plenty of room for variation and timing options.

After "Salads" and "Appetizers" the book is organized around occasion. "When You're in a Rush" features weeknight meals like Ten-minute Bolognese Sauce, Pork Chops with Apples and Onion, and the five-ingredient Shrimp in Coconut Milk with Red Curry Paste, which takes longer to say than to cook. Not all of the dishes are so quick - Eggplant Lasagna requires assembly and baking - but they share a simplifying "one-pot meal" approach.

"Dishes We Make All The Time" includes homey fare like Baked Meatballs and Tomato Sauce, Yankee Pot Roast with Caramelized Vegetables and Bow Ties with Pot Cheese and Peas. There's also a French Onion Soup made with roasted onions and Mussels in Spicy Tomato Sauce that can be served in bowls or over pasta.

"New Classics" offers tweaks to the tried and true to reflect the modern tastes for leaner, more highly seasoned food, like Oven Fried Fish and Chips and Roasted Coq Au Vin with Sugar Snap Peas. "Good Enough for Company" features Beef Tenderloin with Red Wine Sauce, Chicken breasts stuffed under the skin with Ricotta and herbs, Roast Side of Salmon, Salmon and Mushroom Pot Pie.

There's a chapter of stews and braises - Spring Garden Stew, Braised Beef in Balsamic Vinegar and another of side dishes like Harvard Beets, Sautéed Apples, and Noodle Pudding. "Rise and Dine" features Salmon Kedgeree, Warm Cheese Pie and Blueberry Muffins; a baking chapter focuses on cakes, cookies and pies and the book ends with Simple Fruit Deserts from Apple Crisp to Baked Peaches in Brown Sugar.

Attractively designed, the book is a comfortable combination of the familiar and the new, with simple, practical advice for serving combinations, do ahead tips and variations. A book for cooks who like a relaxed feel in the kitchen, and who doesn't?

simple food, simple recipes.......2003-07-21

I bought this book after reading a review of it. The recipes are simple and easy to follow. They do not use any ingredients that you cannot get at a regular supermarket. No recipe requires the cook to stand over the stove stirring or watching it cook. I highlighted all the recipes I want to try and easily have a month's worth of dinners. I'm so glad there's finally a cookbook for cooks who don't have time to cook!

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