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The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge (American Exploration and Travel Series)
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In these journals, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, a well-known chronicler of western history and an authority on Plains Indians, provides an important account of conditions in Indian Territory from 1878 to 1880, a period of rapid transition.
The Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation in present-day western Oklahoma was the center of Dodge's activity. His writings offer a first-hand record of the 1878 retreat of the Northern Cheyenne, the conditions endured by Indians who remained on the reservation, and the jurisdictional conflicts between Army personnel and representatives of the Office of Indian Affairs.
These journals also provide insight into Dodge's character, with reports of his official duties as a military man and of several landmark events in his family life. Extensive commentaries and notes by Wayne Kime provide further detail, including a history of Cantonment North Fork Canadian River, a six-company post Dodge established and commanded in the region.
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Linus Pauling could be considered the American cowboy of science. His approach to the discipline evinces the same pioneering spirit that drove the early settlers to explore and conquer ever-widening frontiers.
Pauling has always been willing to take risks in proposing controversial new scientific theories: his ground-breaking work on sickle-cell anemia, the theory of anesthesia, chemical bonding, and his near-victory in the DNA race show the tremendous range of his professional talents and curiosity.
Pauling’s approach to life and his role as a public figure reflect the same brand of risk-taking and controversy. Active as a peace crusader and humanitarian, he has never hesitated to question the political or scientific establishments.
He engendered hostility among the scientists of the Manhattan project (developers of the atomic bomb), expressed opposition to 1943 wartime interment of Japanese-Americans, openly defended J. Robert Oppenheimer during the "Red Scare" period, and worked toward a nuclear test-ban treaty in the 1950s.
Anthony Serafini uses letters, documents, and interviews with Pauling’s contemporaries to take the reader through the many facets of Pauling’s life, including his student days, triumphs in chemistry, a 1962 Nobel Peace Prize, and more.
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a great biography.......2004-09-07
This is an excellent compendium of Pauling's life; detailing his major scientific contributions (smaller than is commonly supposed). It also deals with Pauling's shenaningans in destroying the careers of other scientists who disagreed with him. It is excellently written and thoroughly researched, though likely it will irritate the scientific community by exposing many of the sordid practices so common in "objective" science.
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- Linus Pauling: A Man and His Science
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Linus Pauling: A Man and His Science.......2006-04-18
Linus Pauling (1901-1994), biochemist, peace activist, advocate of nuclear disarmament, champion of vitamin C as a remedy for colds and cancer, was a scientific genius who leaped the boundaries of physics, chemistry, biology and medicine, and in so doing helped to create whole new disciplines including molecular biology and chemical physics. The first person ever to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes (Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1963), he was a preeminent personality in mid 20th-century science and intellectual politics. Drawing on scores of interviews with Pauling, his family and his colleagues, and on the two-time Nobel Prize-winner's papers, Serafini limns a fiercely competitive, emotionally constricted man, irreverent, audacious, sometimes self-righteous and bullying a more complex figure than his public persona of eccentric idealist. The influential currents in Pauling's intellect, personality and politics are well characterized in this definitive work, which lay readers and scientists alike will find enlightening and rigorous. Though a self-professed lover of humanity, Pauling practically ignored his own children. His father, an ambitious Oregon druggist, worked himself to death at the age of 32, and his widowed, worn-out, delusional mother was committed to a mental ward shortly before her death.
Serafini book is tops.......2004-11-23
I've read all the biographies of Dr. Pauling and this is clearly the best. In my view it is destined to become the definitive biography of Linus Pauling. Unlike many of the others, this book is. justifiably, quite critical of Pauling while at the same time recognizing his accomplishments. It is an easy read, snappy and clearly explains scientific concepts. If you have to spend money on any pauling biography, buy this one. It is great!
UNFAIR.......2004-10-04
Most of the reviews of this book have been VERY favorable: a couple of them however castigate the author merely because he showed that Pauling was,despite some contributions to science, mainly a cheater (the chapter where it describes a spurious fourth author on a Pauling paper e.g.) To right these wrongs, I'd like to quote from a long favorable review by the eminent MARTIN GARDNER:
- This is the first book-length biography of [the] American scientist...and AN EXCELLENT BOOK it is ... . His fury at being labeled a fellow-traveler prompted numerous libel suits....Only one went to trial -- a million dollar claim against William F. Buckley's National Review. Serafini devotes a COLORFUL chapter to this 10-year battle that ended with Mr. Buckley's legal victory....His work on Vitamin C still has a chance of being his final triumph, but only a slim one. More likely, as Anthony Serafini writes, it will be a once-great man's Waterloo.
- Martin Gardner
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Most people think of yoga as a solitary activity that is inherently therapeutic. While that is generally true, yoga poses and breathing practices can also be prescribed for specific health problems—often in combination with dietary advice taken from Ayurveda, traditional Indian medicine. Yoga Therapy is an essential guide for yoga teachers, advanced practitioners, and anyone who wants to make therapeutic use of yoga. A. G. and Indra Mohan prescribe postures, breathing techniques, and basic Ayurvedic principles for a variety of common health problems, including asthma, back pain, constipation, hip pain, knee pain, menstrual problems, and scoliosis. Yoga Therapy is one of the few books that shows yoga teachers how to put together appropriate yoga sequences and breathing techniques for their students. Mohan details how to correctly move into, hold, and move out of poses, how to breathe during practice to achieve specific results, and how to customize a yoga practice by creating sequences of yoga poses for a particular person.
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Yoga therapy.......2007-05-27
Very good book but could use some user friendly things like a detailed index for quick reference.
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Christopher Kimball, editor and founder of Cook's Illustrated magazine, grew up during the 1950s in rural Vermont, where he spent many summers working as a farmhand. His most cherished memories were of the yellow farmhouse, where an eclectic gathering of workers met at noon for hearty meals of roast, potatoes, boiled greens, baking-powder biscuits, molasses cookies, and perhaps a pie. Kimball's memories of this time make for a book that is as good to read as it is to cook from.
Kimball has painstakingly tried and tested hundreds of recipes for those childhood roasts, cookies, apple pies, and other nurturing farmhouse delights. In The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook, he reworks them for the modern kitchen (olive oil and hand mixers are allowed), while still capturing "the spirit of farmhouse cooking, using simple ingredients simply prepared."
Within each chapter, memories, recipes, and cooking techniques effortlessly roll into one another. In "The Dairy," we are whisked back to Kimball's 10th year, when he milked cows. Back then, "milk was stored in large cans set into a thick metal cooler filled with cold water." This description sets the perfect scene for milky recipes such as an American Baked Custard, several tapioca puddings, chocolate mousses, and cream pies. All adhere to the book's main premise: simple cooking with basic ingredients. Other chapters are solely devoted to meat, vegetables, baking, breakfast, cookies, fruit, and preserving, as well as a buying guide for purchasing the best cookware and kitchen tools. With so much research, and so many recipes and reminiscences, The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook really is an act of culinary love and devotion. --Naomi Gesinger
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Christopher Kimball, editor and founder of Cook's Illustrated magazine, grew up during the 1950s in rural Vermont, where he spent many summers working as a farmhand. His most cherished memories were of the yellow farmhouse, where an eclectic gathering of workers met at noon for hearty meals of roast, potatoes, boiled greens, baking-powder biscuits, molasses cookies, and perhaps a pie. Kimball's memories of this time make for a book that is as good to read as it is to cook from. Kimball has painstakingly tried and tested hundreds of recipes for those childhood roasts, cookies, apple pies, and other nurturing farmhouse delights. In The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook, he reworks them for the modern kitchen (olive oil and hand mixers are allowed), while still capturing "the spirit of farmhouse cooking, using simple ingredients simply prepared."Within each chapter, memories, recipes, and cooking techniques effortlessly roll into one another. In "The Dairy," we are whisked back to Kimball's 10th year, when he milked cows. Back then, "milk was stored in large cans set into a thick metal cooler filled with cold water." This description sets the perfect scene for milky recipes such as an American Baked Custard, several tapioca puddings, chocolate mousses, and cream pies. All adhere to the book's main premise: simple cooking with basic ingredients. Other chapters are solely devoted to meat, vegetables, baking, breakfast, cookies, fruit, and preserving, as well as a buying guide for purchasing the best cookware and kitchen tools. With so much research, and so many recipes and reminiscences, The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook really is an act of culinary love and devotion. --Naomi Gesinger
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I'm so disapointed.......2006-06-24
I have tried two recipes so far and they were both flops! I tried the baking powder biscuits and the buttermilk pancakes (with the whole milk variation). I really like Kimball and love America's Test Kitchen but I do not like this book.
Very good intro book.......2002-11-04
The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook is aimed for those with second houses OR startup kitchens. It is complete with what utensils and pots to buy, with reviews right out of the Cooks Illustrated Magagine. It gives lots of information on the science of cooking too. There are not allot of recipes in here but this is a basic book that lets you understand cooking & what to buy to get started.
If you get this with the Joy and you'll be okay.
The Cook's bible is the upscale version of the Farmhouse, the pots and kitchen equipment are more top-end; Farmhouse is how to make a kitchen on a budget -- your call.
Entirely dependable and entirely wonderful.......2002-05-26
There is great comfort for any cook who finds a cookbook author he or she likes: you know what to expect, you trust their judgement and their recipes, you like their voice. That's the case with Christopher Kimball and me.
Christopher Kimball founded and still edits COOK'S ILLUSTRATED magazine. I always learn something from COOK'S. Its laconic, thorough approach is Chris incarnate, and this unfussy spirit is echoed in "The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook" as well. With its yellow-checked cover, an old-fashioned typeface (Poor Richard, perhaps?), and illustrations reminiscent of woodblock prints by Rockwell Kent or Barry Moser, this is a conscious visual effort to call up the gentle past.
The recipes, however, are anything but nostalgic. Chris flatly debunks assumption after assumption about recipes we thought we knew. He is a demon tester, and has charted wonderful new paths to the same old dishes, making them bright and newly delicious in our mouths. Several "Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook" recipes have become family favorites in my home (especially the scalloped potatoes, which get requested on practically a weekly basis). This book is a stroke of good fortune for any home cook.
Good for Novice Cooks.......2002-03-27
I bought this book to read about Christopher Kimball's kitchen experiments. I love his writing style.
I think this cookbook contains a lot of useful information for beginners. However, it contains nothing that good cooks don't already know. For that reason, I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5.
Very Dependable.......2002-01-17
A NYC Chef, I took this book with me when going down south to cook for 2 older southern gentlemen because I was informed under no uncertain terms that I would have to cook old-fashioned American country food. This book turned out to be very dependable. I am intrigued by the less than satisfactory reviews of the book. He definitely backtracks on some of his recipes in the Cook's Bible (he tells you where) but he also talks about how he improved the recipe here. To be sure, I have modifications in mind for my own taste on several of the recipes, and find the "master recipe" concept for things like mashed potatoes amusing, but this book's results are very enjoyable home-style cooking. One major feature for me was that I've been used to the organic produce and variety one finds in NY, but there, that wasn't available. These recipes came through because they are written for what one can find in a grocery store anywhere in the country.
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Paws And Whiskers
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A Good Read for A Great Cause Sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, these stories, poems, cartoons and photos from up-and-coming writers are sure to delight pet lovers of every stripe and spot. All profit from the anthology will be given to animal rescue organizations with the specific purpose of providing care for abandoned, neglected and abused animals.
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For Pet Lovers Everywhere.......2004-02-21
Paws And Whiskers is a wonderful treat for any pet lover.
The collection of short stories, poems, cartoons and photos covers an astonishing range of pet experiences. There are the humorous and adorable stories like "Puppy Talk" by Rebecca Adkins and "The Cat Who Could Not Be There, But Was" by Sandra Rieser, and recounts of beloved pets by Glenda Dickey and others.
Add to that several more provocative stories exploring other ways that humans interact with animals. These stories include "Spies and Other Mammals" by William Alan Rieser, which asks what are we really teaching dolphins when we train them for warfare. "Katie Collector" by Sarah Mankowski dares to go into the mind and into the grim house of a cat collector, and will definitely make the reader think about how much cat neglect could be avoided if humans made more of an effort to understand these troubled souls. "Too Many Dandelions" by Sarah Mankowski will make even the most hard-hearted reader tear up, as will "Humane Society" by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and "Song of the Backyard Dogs", Sarah Mankowski
And if that wasn't enough, there is a section of fantasy and science fiction pet stories, like the rest of the book, all worth reading. These are "The Seeker Cat" by Trish Allin, "Ramien" by William Alan Rieser, "My Dragonette" a poem by Valentina Ranaldi-Adams and the fascinating and disturbing story "Transmute" by Kim Richards
While it would be difficult to pick a favorite among so many memorable stories, I must single out the exceptionally well-written "The Gift" by Piper Timek, the three exquisite poems by Barbara Sabol and the Bartlett The Bookstore Cat cartoons by the very talented John Mankowski.
Paws And Whiskers is a fine book that includes something special for every pet lover. In addition, all profit goes to animal rescue.
Buy a copy for yourself and another for a friend.
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Velvet Paws and Whiskers
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Whiskers and Paws
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This collection of whimsical poems features child-friendly verse about creatures of all shapes and sizes. Children will love the imaginative poems about ice-skating polars bears and fiddle-playing cats. The gentle, humorous illustrations by Vanessa Julian-Ottie invite readers into a charming and imaginative world. The short, simple verse with an irresistible rhyme engages young children just beginning to read while it encourages a love of poetry for readers of all ages.
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Animal Bodies: Paws, Tails, and Whiskers (Science Starters Level 1)
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Challenging collection of exquisite cut-paper designs includes 33 elegant motifs incorporating hearts, flowers, and leafy tendrils — all printed on one side of fine quality paper. Complete instructions for folding and cutting out patterns suitable for stationery borders, photo and document frames, bookmarks, and other attractive gift and personal items.
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"When you bring flowers into your home and your life, you surround your family and friends with natural beauty that creates a climate of well-being and continuity."
Barbara Milo Ohrbach, author of nine books, including the best-selling The Scented Room, now celebrates the joy of flowers in her gorgeously photographed new book, Simply Flowers.
Ms. Ohrbach brings her creative approach and exquisite taste to arranging fresh flowers, providing all the basics you will need to effortlessly decorate and beautify your home with flowers, from simple country baskets spilling with vibrant wild flowers to stylish arrangements of carefully chosen blossoms.
Filled with practical advice and innovative ideas, including handy lists of botanicals, Simply Flowers is a very personal and imaginative book that takes the mystery out of flower arranging, making it easy and enjoyable. Ms. Ohrbach offers important tips on selecting and cutting flowers, and how to keep them looking fresh and beautiful for as long as possible; choosing the proper vase to complement your bouquet; finding the perfect place for your flowers; clever ways of mixing fruits and vegetables with botanicals; and simple arrangements that are especially quick to make when you're pressed for time. She discusses forcing bulbs and branches; using silk flowers and house plants; and ways to use ribbons and fabrics that will turn your flowers into charming and welcome gifts.
Readers with green thumbs (and even those without) will find helpful suggestions for planning their own cutting gardens or window boxes. And for anyone who likes to entertain, there are easy ideas for inventive table decorations.
At the end of her book, Ms. Ohrbach shares the sources she has relied on over the years for cut flowers and arrangements, books on flowers and gardening, and catalogues for bulbs, seeds, plants, and tools and accessories.
Whether you're a practiced hand at flower arranging, new to the art, or someone who just has a passion for flower-filled rooms, Simply Flowers will be a perennial inspiration.
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Magic Molecules: How Drugs Work
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Almost all of us have used medical drugs at some point to help make us well, or at least to help us feel better while we endure our illnesses. Yet most of them are mysterious to us, even those that are thoroughly understood by scientists. Susan Aldridge wrote Magic Molecules: How Drugs Work as a guide for scientifically literate consumers to help us understand these chemicals and their effects on our bodies. Looking at painkillers, antibiotics, cancer therapies, "smart drugs," and many others, she uses clear, plain language and illustrations to describe the mechanisms of these medications.
But Magic Molecules is no encyclopedia. Aldridge includes fascinating discussions of related topics such as viral diseases, clinical trials, and the history of drug use, interwoven with her descriptions of the drugs we use each day. How does ibuprofen differ from aspirin? Why does chemotherapy make us sick? How come pregnant women have to be so careful with their medications? These questions and more are answered in this book that combines the usefulness of a reference text with the delightful charm of the best scientific works. --Rob Lightner
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We have all been drug users at one time or another. Drugs can be used as medicines, as food additives, for pleasure, and to protect our long-term health. With so many new drugs on the market and an ever-widening definition of what exactly makes a drug a drug, we should all be well informed about the drugs we use--how they work, their benefits, and their risks. This book is a unique guide for the general reader to the drugs of everyday life--from commonly prescribed medicines to recreational drugs (including illicit ones) and food supplements. The author examines how drugs interact with their targets in the body, where drugs come from, how they are developed, and what new kinds of drugs are on the horizon. She reviews all the major pharmaceutical medicines--painkillers, antibiotics, anti-cancer drugs, anti-depressants, heart drugs, tranquilizers, and hormones. Much more than a consumer handbook, this volume conveys the fascinating science behind drugs in an easily accessible way.
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A review of Magic Molecules.......2000-02-01
This book is to be commended for its, clarity of thought ,and flowing prose in its treatment of a subject both broad in scope ,and complex in nature. The Author is able to give the reader an accessible overview of the of the most common diseases affecting mankind, and the of the pharmacological approaches used to combat these illnesses in a manner that deftly maneuvers in level from the molecular to the practical. The only reason that I didn't give this book 5 stars is because that I reserve such a rating in this genre for a masterpiece such as "Creating Mind:How the Brain Works"
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Art in the Blood: Seven Generations of American Artists in the Fuller Family
Blair Fuller
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Written in a humorous, fun style, COOKING WITH THE KOSHER BUTCHER'S WIFE is like no other cookery book. It will keep eager meat lovers entertained as they try out Sharon Lurie's delicious recipes. After 25 years of experimenting, creating and improvising, Sharon finally dispels the old myth that, because cooking with kosher meat means eating only from the forequarter, meals are limited to tough, dry and boring meat! She proves that kosher meat is of the highest grade and quality, and by means of notes and tips, and tried-and-tested recipes, helps the reader prepare mouthwatering beef dishes, as well as wonderful lamb, veal and poultry fare. Other recipes include marinades, soups, deli delights, side dishes, vegetables and unforgettable desserts. All the recipes in COOKING WITH THE KOSHER BUTCHER'S WIFE are also suitable for the lactose intolerant. With the many non-dairy substitutes available today, Sharon proves that non-dairy desserts can be just as delectable as their dairy counterparts.
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A culinary wealth of simply outstanding recipes.......2007-05-13
An experienced and published food writer, Sharon Lurie is also the wife of a kosher butcher and therefore enjoys easy access to all the various cuts of meats. She draws upon her years of experience and impressive expertise in "Cooking With The Butcher's Wife" to share a culinary wealth of simply outstanding recipes that will produce meal time pleasures for every dining occasion from daily family meals to celebratory dining occasions. After the informative chapters about what it means for a food to be declared kosher, oven temperatures and conversion table, and the different kinds of kosher cuts, there are whole chapters of 'kitchen cook friendly' recipes for marinades, bastes and rubs; 'liquid assets', and 'awesome offal'. The preparation for all different kinds of meats are addressed including beef, lamb, veal, and poultry. There are wonderful recipes for 'deli delights', desserts, and more! From Ryan's Shiny Glazed Beef Spare Ribs and Mambo Mango Salsa; to Old-Fashioned Steak Pie with Minted Peas; to Chunky Mexican Sweet Chili Chicken; to Savory Potato Muffins; to African Sundowner Salad; to Chill Out Cheesecake, "Cook With The Butcher's Wife" with its colorful illustrations, clearly listed recipe ingredients, and step-by-step preparatory instructions, will prove to be a popular addition to family cookbook collections in general, and an indispensable necessity for kosher kitchens in particular.
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Keeping the faith: Empire Kosher Poultry meets kosher processing's unique set of challenges.: An article from: Food Processing
Pan Demetrakakes
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This digital document is an article from Food Processing, published by Putman Media, Inc. on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2291 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.
From the supplier: Poultry processor Empire Kosher Poultry Inc has the distinction of being the world's largest kosher food processing facility. The Hebrew word kosher means pure and denotes high standards of cleanliness. Thus, Empire's processing of poultry follows the procedures prescribed by kosher law under the supervision of rabbis employed in the facility. Because of the labor-intensive nature of kosher processing, Empire has positioned its poultry as a premium item. Empire's 330,000 sq ft facility is located in Mifflintown, PA.
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Title: Keeping the faith: Empire Kosher Poultry meets kosher processing's unique set of challenges.
Author: Pan Demetrakakes
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Food Processing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: Putman Media, Inc.
Volume: 60
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- Longing to Belong and Stay Apart
- Gay Jewish Writers Bare Their Souls
- Slightly disagree with previous review.
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Kosher Meat
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`Kosher Meat` is a provocative and enlightening collection of memoir and fiction by a minyan of authors chosen by noted anthologist Lawrence Schimel. Passion, spirituality, tradition, identity, and a refusal to disappear in the face of oppression are persistent themes in this examination of Jewish identity and gay sexuality.
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Longing to Belong and Stay Apart.......2007-01-16
Schimel, Lawrence, editor. "Kosher Meat". Sherman Asher Publishing, 2000.
Longing to Belong and Stay Apart
Amos Lassen and Literary Pride
Being able to pull stories together in an anthology is not an easy job but Lawrence Schimel has admirably done so in "Kosher Meat". There is always sameness in stories like this but what really distinguish them are their differences. There is a variety of voices, a mixture of styles and different approaches to the issues. Some of the stories are highly sexual and others are very emotional but what they all have in common is honesty. The ten stories and introduction in the book give us a picture of the varieties of love and passion.
When I first heard of the book I loved the sheer chutzpah (nerve) of the title. But there is more chutzpah than the title. Schimel dare to compile a book that is both full of lust on one hand and literature on the other. The writing is always intelligent and many times erotic and always direct. The diversity of the stories only helps to make this a true anthology in every sense of the definition of the word.
Schimel's own short story "The Minyan" is included here. In it he describes Simon as he thinks about going to his first sex party with some of the men from his own synagogue. It is his chance to become a part of something; a "minyan" (the ten men required by Jewish law necessary to perform a prayer service) of men who can openly be who and what they want without shame or inhibition.
"My Yidishe Tate" by David May looks at connectivity between two people who discover eroticism through a dead language, Yiddish. In "The Good Son", Brian Stone looks at the issue of being in a "mixed" relationship and Patrick's reaction when he goes home with Noah for his father's funeral. He faces a religion that has been a mystery to him and has to deal with it head on. Similar pieces by Daniel Jaffe and David May deal with relationships centered on the S/M subculture and how violence and pain are part of lovemaking techniques. Jaffe's selection is brutally honest and shows us that that sometimes we chose not to be who we really are because of conflict. Michael Lassell's "My People" s a Way of looking at a Holocaust memorial in a new way.
Other stories by Brian Stanford, Jonathan Wald, David Steinberg, Andrew Ramer and Allen Ellenzweig are just as enlightening. I have heard it mentioned that some of the writing may be lost if the reader is unfamiliar with the Jewish religion but I do not feel this is necessarily so. There is a glossary to explain terms and t would be a pity to mss some of these wonderful stories because one feels limited by religious experience.
This is a wonderful look into the gay psyche and it makes one feel that representation has finally arrived for some of us. As we look into the lives of Jewish gay men, we also lo0ok at their families, their friends and their history. Traditionally, we, as gay men, have looked at a large scale representation while struggling for representation, recognition and acceptance. Through "Kosher Meat" we can learn about individual differences and what distinguishes a community. Knowing that helps us to build the lager community that we all so badly hope for.
Gay Jewish Writers Bare Their Souls.......2000-10-21
ForeWord Magazine Review: "The writers in Kosher Meat lay bare their souls to reveal their innermost thoughts, desires, passions, and anxieties about both sex and Jewish identity." Schimel has put together a collection of ten essays and short stories that are diverse in nature, yet unified to the theme of the work.
Contributors range from award winning poet Michael Lassell to author and '70s gay porn star Rick Sanford. Schimel is a full-time author and anthologist who has published more than forty books. In 1998 his anthology PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality won a Lambda Literary Award. He is also a contributor to this particular anthology with his short story "The Minyan," which describes Simon's thoughts and reactions to participating in his first sex party with a group of men from his congregation. Simon finds himself glad to become part of something bigger than himself: "A Minyan of desire, men who no longer needed to congregate in clandestine secret to worship, but who could love and pray without shame."
Lassell's story, "My People," compares and contrasts losses suffered due to the Holocaust and AIDS. Michael and David meet for the first time and end up sharing their thoughts and experiences while touring the Holocaust Museum.
Through their interaction they discover the need to live and love in the present. "Mein Yidishe Tate," by David May, also explores the connection between two people, but with more of an erotic tone. In his story two lovers discover their secret language of desire--Yiddish. In "The Good Son," Brian Stein relays what it is like to be in a "mixed" relationship. Patrick meets Noah's family for the first time when returning home for his father's funeral.
At times the impact of the writing contained in Kosher Meat can be lost on the non-Jewish reader, but fortunately there is a glossary of terminology contained at the back of the book.
Shimel has proven himself to be a talented editor by bringing experiences to the gay ewish reader who may be feeling lost with the lack of representation in literature, as well as providing insight for the non-gay and non-Jewish reader into the lives of their lovers, friends, and family. Historically, gay men have focussed on the larger picture connected with the struggle for recognition and acceptance. Kosher Meat is an opportunity to learn some of the individual differences that make this community distinctive.
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Lambda Book Report, September 2000: "Eclectic diversity of story themes and styles is a difficult row for an editor to hoe; however Schimel manages to pull these stories together, grouping them so that the differences aren't as obvious as the sameness."
Slightly disagree with previous review........2000-09-26
I'm in the Boston reading group referred to by another reviewer. Although I agree for the most part with his comments, I disagree about Schimel's introduction. I found it highly appropriate and suitable to the book. And let's not forget to give credit where credit is due--as editor, he's the one who found all these wonderful stories and essays!
A reading group pleaser.......2000-09-20
My gay reading group (some Jewish, some not) read this collection of stories and essays about being gay and Jewish. What we generally liked best was the range of voices and approaches to the issue--some stories focused more on sex but others more on emotion/psychology. The favorites of our group were the pieces by David May and Daniel Jaffe (our own Boston writer--hurrah!). David May conveyed a real tenderness in his portrayal of an SM relationship. How amazing to see that two men who use pain and violence as part of their lovemaking would be most turned on by the use of Yiddish, by words. The power of words. Jaffe's piece (an essay)about an adolescent religious Jewish boy ashamed of his gay feelings is so honest. The essay makes the point that sometimes we don't want to be who we are because the conflict is so great. Both these pieces left some of our group's readers in tears. Our only complaint was that some of the other pieces were not as well-written as they could have been. Schimel's introduction is fairly weak and cutesie.
Kosher Meat is hot!.......2000-09-13
To start, you've gotta love the title. And the chutzpah to dare to compile a book that is equal parts lust and literature and satisfies both while sacrificing neither. Playing with the volatile issues of sex and identity these stories arouse the reader and challenge assumptions-something that Schimel has done repeatedly. Lawrence Schimel (the editor of the anthology) shook up all the pat answers on gender with his Lambda award winning "PoMoSexuals" (translation: Post Modern Sexual) and continues his work brilliantly here tackling assumptions, stereotypes, and secrets with directness, tenderness, and ten fine writers.
Erotic and intelligent writing is a rare commodity but Kosher Meat delivers. You may never consider the Holocaust Museum in quite the same way after reading Michael Lassell's "My People". If it were a movie, it would be a bravura performance of all dialogue and close-up shots. Understated, shimmering like a platinum print photograph, it leaves you breathless.
David May's "Mein Yiddishe Tate" begins as if it were "only" porn, the anonymous leather man in San Francisco stuff. The quality of the writing is transparent at first and likewise the emotional impact of the ending is unexpectedly powerful.
While wildly diverse, each of the stories adds to the mosaic of identity of being gay and Jewish-an issue that deserves quite a few books more-and a book that unexpectedly offers superlative writing. Recommended.
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