"Reed recounts with humor [post Katrina] home-improvement nightmares in a story that is part 'Money Pitt' and part love letter to her adopted home town." — Washington Post, Front Page FeatureAfter fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District of New Orleans. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck.Rich with sumptuous details and with the ...

From the heart of the American South to the African bush, Dispatches from the Gilded Age is a dazzling collection of essays from Julia Reed, one of America's most engaging and insightful chroniclers.Reed's sharp eye and wit illuminate the high and low of a spectacular era, from her first byline covering the shooting of Dr. Herman Tarnower by headmistress Jean Harris, to profiles of luminaries like Andre Leon Talley, Sister Helen Prejean, President George a...

What if the world was made of ice cream? Bobby and Kate don't just wonder-they dream it!In We Want ALL the Ice Cream, a visit to the ice cream shop turns into the adventure of a lifetime. Imagine floating on rivers of blue moon ice cream under skies dotted with cotton candy clouds. Picture yourself dodging malt ball boulders and uncovering pirate treasures, all made from ice cream.But every adventure has its challenges. Will Bobby and Kate conquer the seven ice cream challe...

Discover the diverse food and culinary traditions from the ten states that border America’s most important river--and the heart of American cuisine--with 200 contemporary recipes for 30 meals and celebrations, and more than 150 stunning photographs.Starting at the river’s source in Minnesota, renowned chef/restaurateur Regina Charboneau introduces readers to a Native American wild rice harvest dinner, a Scandinavian summer’s end crayfish party, and a Hmong Southeast Asian New Year’s...

Published in 1981, The Great American Writers Cookbook was a treasure trove of recipes submitted by the country's most celebrated authors. This all-new collection, a fine follow-up for a new era, features recipes that range from peanut butter sandwiches to eggplant caviar, with dishes-and anecdotes-offered by writers of every imaginable stripe, ethnicity, region, and culture in America.Contemporary novelists such as National Book Award winners Jonathan Franzen and the late...

Published in 1981, The Great American Writers Cookbook was a treasure trove of recipes submitted by the country's most celebrated authors. This all-new collection, a fine follow-up for a new era, features recipes that range from peanut butter sandwiches to eggplant caviar, with dishes—and anecdotes—offered by writers of every imaginable stripe, ethnicity, region, and culture in America.Contemporary novelists such as National Book Award winners Jonathan Franzen and the late...

Welcome To Your Ticket To The Glitterati Life!The ladies of Workin' The Tease have put together 30 bewitching lessons from the magical world of burlesque to serve as your guide to revealing the best version of yourself - inside & out!Enchanting insights revealed include:Happy Is As Happy DoesIt's Okay To SparklePlay Dress Up With Your LifeBe Naked MoreChange Is The Only Constant

The humorist celebrates Southern food, Southern women, and the Southern penchant for enjoying good times in this collection of her food writing.In essays on everything from pork chops to the perfect picnic Julia Reed revels in the simple good qualities that make the Southern table the best possible place to pull up a chair. She expounds on:The Southerner's relentless penchant for using gelatinWhy most things taste better with homemade mayonn...

In her essay collection, Reed "blends David Sedaris-like humor with Southern culinary knowledge, then adds a dash of gentility and a pinch of detail " (Washington Independent Review of Books).In considering the pleasures and absurdities of her native culture, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, "It's the juxtapositions that get you down here." These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South, and in her warmhearted...

"[Reed] has compiled here food-focused curiosities sprinkled with a dash of travel, a pinch of sass, and a whole load of recipes." — Publishers WeeklyJulia Reed, a master of the art of eating, drinking, and making merry, takes the reader on culinary adventures in places as far flung as Kabul, Afghanistan and as close to home as her native Mississippi Delta and Florida's Gulf Coast. Along the way, Reed discovers the perfect Pimm's Royale at the Paris Ritz, d...

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of many kinds.Cornbread Nation 7, edited ...

**This program is read by the author.South Toward Home is a wry and humorous audiobook about life and culture in the American South.**In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South and in her warmhearted and funny new audiobook, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs...