In Dreena Burton's first two best-selling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan , she offered a dazzling array of healthy, animal-free recipes, many of which were based on her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husband are raising as vegans. Dreena also maintains an active website (www.everydayvegan.com) and blog (www.vivelevegan.blogspot.com) and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her family-oriented, nutritious recipes. In this, her third cookbook, Dreena turns her attention to celebratory food--imaginative, colorful, and delectable vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals for two to dinner parties to full-on galas. Many of the recipes are kid-friendly, and all are appropriate for everyday meals as well.
The book includes 125 recipes and sixteen full-color photographs, as well as meal plans, cooking notes, and advice on vegan wines and beers. Recipes include Lentil & Veggie Chimichangas, Thai Chick-Un Pizza, White Bean Soup with Basil & Croutons, Tomato Dill Lentil Soup, Olive & Sundried Tomato Hummus, "Creamy" Cashew Dip with Fruit, Cr pes with Maple Butter Cream, 5-Star Ice "Cream" Sandwiches, and Hemp-anola (Dreena's take on granola).
Come celebrate with Dreena and impress your guests with these tempting animal-free recipes.
Original as always, Lukacs offers a study not of Hitler himself but of how historians have treated Hitler: how they see him and his actions. No other book on the Third Reich is like this one, because it isn't about the Third Reich. Rather, it considers how we understand the Third Reich through our understanding of Hitler. It's a kind of history about history, then, and not a history about world events. The book reads well--an...
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I must confess that I am fascinated by larger than life bogeymen of history. I devour biographies about such characters as Mao, Hitler, Himmler, Beria, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Fidel Castro, Franco, Robespierre, Lenin, Fouche, Napoleon, Richelieu. While obviously one could never lump them all together (there is a universe of difference between a psychopathic genocidal maniac such as Pol Pot and a respected architect of...
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I'm writing this review having read both Lukacs' book and Ron Rosenbaum's "Explaining Hitler." Some have criticised Lukacs for his omissions, and for what they suppose to be some attempt on his part to mitigate the seriousness or vileness of Hitler's misdeeds. I can only say that (i) It is hardly possible to imagine a book that manages to treat a historical figure at once concisely AND comprehensively. Short and to-the-point...
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"Hitler" has become less a person than a brand name in the years since his death. His name is applied with equal casualness to left- and right-wing politics, and against anything and anyone one doesn't like. What Hitler and the short-lived Nazi phenomenon really was has been tailored to suit the biases of every historian who has examined them. Lukas shows how Hitler and the Nazis are distorted by the lens of each historian's...
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John Lukacs has written a brilliant, scholarly and authoritative masterpiece about the historical aspect of the central figure of the twentieth century. Lukcas artfully and at times eruditely strips away the superfical impression we have of Hitler as a madman who mirco-managed his generals, knew nothing of U.S. industrial power and was self assured, even to the end the Third Reich would win the war to show none of these...
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