New York Places and Pleasures

Kate Simon

HarperCollins (paper)

A personal guide to the towns and villages between Italy's celebrated urban centers, which offers information on customs, history, trains, buses, food and accommodations

Italy: The Places in Between

Travel

Europe

Harpercollins

The daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Kate Simon was brought up in a tenement block in the Bronx area of New York. Her vivid recollections of her childhood and adolescence are contained in Bronx Primitive and its sequel A Wider World. This is a riche and startlingly frank memoir in which Simon captures the immigrant neighborhood of her childhood in the Depression Years of the 1920's as well as the universal uncertainties and triumphs of a young girl on the threshold of womanhood.

Bronx Primitive

Biographies & Memoirs

Harrap

In this reissue of her 1984 classic, Kate Simon reveals the special charm of the Embrian hill towns, the enchantments of the Etruscan tomb paintings of Tarquinia, the beauties of Siena's Campo, the sublimity of the Giottos in Padua, and the watery grace of Treviso - Dozens of other overlooked sites.

Italy: The places in between

Barnes&Noble Books

Sparkling wine is great for celebrating, but pour it into a cocktail and the real party begins. Tiny Bubbles stirs up 40 refreshing concoctions using Champagne, Prosecco, Cava, and other bubbly wines. Drinks include favorites like Mimosasand Champagne Cocktails, plus wonderful new inventions like the homage to maraschino cherries, the Marasco Fizz, and the sweet-tart Melagrana with its combination of limoncello and pomegranate. "Mocktails" are included for those who like the fizz without the buzz and a selection of Bubbly Bites offer some tasty treats to go along with the drinks. Tiny Bubbles gives everyone a reason to raise a glass.

Tiny Bubbles: Fizzy Cocktails for Every Occasion, Using Champagne, Prosecco, and Other Sparking Wines

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

Chronicle Books+

Absinthe Cocktails is devoted entirely to cocktails made with barely-legal absinthe. Since this spirit was legalized in the U.S. in 2007, the absinthe category has exploded with 34 new brands introduced in 2008 and consumers willing to pay $50 for a bottle. This book has something to suit everyone's taste—traditionalists will learn how to properly mix absinthe like an old pro with 30 recipes for classic cocktails, while modern absinthe lovers can experiment with 20 contemporary drink formulas from trendsetting bars such as Los Angeles's Varnish and the Lonsdale in London. Absinthe Cocktails gives going green an entirely new meaning!

Absinthe Cocktails

Bronx Primitive - Portraits in a Childhood (Great Jewish Books on Audiotape)

Historical

JCC Audio Books

I Gonzaga-Storia E Segreti

Newton & Company

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