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Bliss and Other Stories

MANSFIELD, KATHERINE

Biographies & Memoirs

Mansfield Press

Katherine Mansfield

Buon Appetito Toronto! is the story of how Italian-Canadian food culture has evolved in the city and how its influence has helped define our perceptions of what constitutes a good meal. From the convivial social dynamics of the Italian table, to the quest for the perfect coffee, to the introduction of food products and artisanal wine from Europe, Italian-Canadians have led the way in educating Torontonians about the pleasures of the table. Through interviews with 28 of the city's most important chefs, restaurateurs importers and manufacturers, Buon Appetito Toronto! gathers together the people that set the standard for culinary creativity and changed the culture of a great city.

Buon Appetito Toronto! the Influence of Italian Food in Our City: The Impact of Italian Food on the City.

Professionals & Academics

It is 1980. The buildings and storefronts at Barton Street and Sherman Avenue are dilapidated remnants of Hamilton's once-thriving steel industry. The corner is also the nexus of a violent street gang that has left citizens terrorized and police impotent. Mean Season chronicles the random beatings, arson, sexual assaults, and other unfathomable violence of that time in the city's history, as Bobby Sferazza, a smart, tough, football-playing University of Toronto student, returns home to take a summer job as a night-club bouncer. As he attempts to help his widowed mother with his wayward kid brother, his take-no-prisoners mind-set leaves him entangled in drugs and gangs, with his bright future caught in the crossfire.

Mean Season

Literature & Fiction

Difalco, Salvatore

Literary

In the linked stories of Kasia Jaronczyk's Lemons, the lives of Basia and her family are seen through a kaleidoscopic lens that follows them over twenty years from communist Poland, to their new home in Canada, then back to Poland, to make sense of everything that has happened in the interim. A young girl struggles with her awakening sexuality in an environment where corporal punishment and male dominance are the norm, and every man, even a close relative, can be a sexual threat; where absolute obedience is demanded as a sign of love; while on the playground she struggles to find her place a hierarchy of mean, tough, but charismatic girls. Her mother's return creates new conflicts as she fights over inheritance, offers harmful advice to friends, and accuses her daughter-in-law of a crime. Over time, the experiences of Basia and her mother Magda shift and refract the perspectives through which we view how younger and older women, and their relationships, are shaped by cultural and material changes in their lives.

Lemons

Jaronczyk, Kasia

Short Stories & Anthologies

In Glutton for Punishment, Christopher Doda updates an ancient poetic form for the 21st century. The glosa is an old metrical form from the royal Spanish court system where a poet takes four lines from another poet and uses them to create a forty-line poem of his own (four ten-line stanzas where each of the four adopted lines are the last line of each stanza) allowing the poet to pay tribute to, converse or argue with the other poet. Doda's variation on this classic form is to take all the source lines from hard rock and heavy metal lyrics, pushing the musicality of poems and the poetry of rock to its limits, while always forced to keep the beat. As rock stars are the poets of the new century, this book is timely and international in scope, as Doda has used lyrics from bands in Canada and the United States to Iraq to most of Europe and the United Kingdom. This is a book with a playlist: hard core glosa for the new age.

Glutton for Punishment: Hard Core Glosa

Doda, Christopher

Poetry

The Better Monsters

Dutt, Puneet

No one knows exactly who it was or when it happened. The only certainty is that someone in late 18th century Naples took a flatbread - the kind that had existed for millennia across the Mediterranean and Middle East - and topped it with tomato, a native plant of the Americas that had been brought to Europe two centuries earlier. Then in 1889, pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito, in a fateful attempt to impress the visiting Queen Margherita of Savoy, added his own embellishments: mozzarella and basil. With the resulting "tre colori" pizza, an Italian icon was born.Within a few decades emigrating southern Italians brought pizza to the US, but it wasn't till post-WWII that its popularity exploded and mega-chains like Dominos and Pizza Hut spread American-style pizza across the globe. Like any global trend pizza has spawned a thousand variations to the delight of some and the horror of others - pizza bagels, pops, pockets and rolls, cheese-stuffed crust, and many more. But globalization also gives us access to Italian equipment, ingredients and expertise, so we can recreate an authentic napoletana experience outside of Italy like never before. Pizza Cultura takes in-depth look at one of the world's most beloved dishes. The history. The ingredients. The tools of the trade. Why it's so popular. What's authentic. And whether it matters. You'll also find nutritional information, pairing advice, celebrity quotes, chef recipes and a gallery of the best pizza art through the ages.

Pizza Cultura

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Mark Cirillo

Baking

Nightlight for Children of Insomniacs

Quinn, Shannon

Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology

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