<p>The Secret Six John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement Otto Scott 1979ISBN 0-8129-0777-9</p>

The secret six: John Brown and the abolitionist movement

History

Otto J. Scott

Americas

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Reaching for paradise: The Playboy vision of America

Weyr, Thomas

Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews More of Henry Creel's pleasant advice for the single cook (see Cooking for One Is Fun, 1976). His one-person adaptations of well-known and not-so-well-known dishes strike a reasonable balance between the simple and the epicurean, with a lot of chops, braised veal or chicken dishes, scalloped vegetables, and stir-fry variations. Selections include sturdy standbys (split pea soup with ham, shepherd's pie), more august presentations (chicken with champagne sauce), and eccentric inventions (chili pizza). Directions are brief and unfussy, probably better geared to sometime-cooks than to complete ignoramuses. Portions tend to be extremely modest. Though there are introductory essays on shopping and kitchen equipment, one feels (as in the first book) that many prospective buyers will have unanswered questions or indeed unmet needs. Things like a veal curry calling for a tablespoon each of chopped apple and chopped banana might well have suggestions for using the leftover fresh ingredients; and heaven help people on fixed incomes trying to duplicate Creel's collection of Le Creuset pots and pans. In sum, an agreeable book which is not going to be all things to all single-person households.

Cooking on your own

Creel, Henry Lewis

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

<p>A very personal memoir by the daughter of the fabulous couple who made living well the best revenge, author Honoria Murphy's childhood was the stuff of grown-up fantasy. 'Earnest Hemingway taught her to ski and to clean fish and not to wear high heels while bowling. Dorothy Parker showed her how to tipple tequila and lime. Picasso provided art criticism....Cole Porter added the music and F. Scott Fitzgerald the magic. She was the only daughter of Sara and Gerald Murphy, the golden American who, between the wars, created the emigre artists' paradise in the south of France. Their sunny charm, elegant good looks, and trend-setting brilliance, which made them Beautiful People before the term was coined, was chronicled in the bestselling 'Living Well is the Best Revenge.'But there was another aspect to the Murphy's story, shadowing their gilded days with spirit-crushing loss. In this remarkable reminiscence, Honoria Murphy Donnelly includes her parents' sad as well as happy times, the intimate dramas as well as celebrity-studded anecdotes, in a deeply touching portrait of a family both very special and very human. From the lush lawns of East Hampton, New York, to the sun-struck Riviera beaches to the echoing corridors of exclusive Swiss sanitoriums, the legend of Sara and Gerald is funny, harrowing, memorable...but it is finally a story of love and courage, the triumph of a couple who won the hearts of a generation and, now, through their daughter, wins ours.</p>

Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After

Donnelly, Honoria Murphy with Richard N. Billings

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