Greek Revival from the Garden

Greek Revival from the Garden

Author: Patricia Moore-Pastides

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2013-06-30

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1611171911

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The acclaimed cookbook author guides you from your garden to your dining table in this volume of Mediterranean recipes, organic gardening advice, and more. Patricia Moore-Pastides, author of Greek Revival: Cooking for Life, heads to the garden, offering guidance on how to cultivate a healthy diet from the ground up. An accomplished cook and public-health professional, Moore-Pastides presents all new recipes focused on bringing the bounty of the garden to the table in easy and accessible ways. The growing section provides all the information necessary for growing an exciting array of fruits and vegetables in containers, raised beds, or yard gardens. Topics include preparing the soil, composting to create organic fertilizer, watering, working with basic tools, and dealing with common pests and problems. Greek Revival from the Garden then invites the reader into the kitchen. This section assumes little prior cooking experience and includes kitchen safety, common equipment, and cooking methods. Moore-Pastides also shares fifty mouth-watering recipes featuring your harvest of homegrown vegetables, including garden gazpacho, curried butternut squash and apple soup, and nut crusted creamy almond fruit tart.


The Garden District of New Orleans

The Garden District of New Orleans

Author: Jim Fraiser

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1617032786

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The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried Italianate houses decorated with lacy cast iron. Photographer West Freeman evokes the romance of this elegant neighborhood with lovely images of private homes, dazzling gardens, and public structures. Author Jim Fraiser vividly details the historical significance and architectural styles of more than a hundred structures and chronicles both the political and cultural evolution of the neighborhood. The Garden District, unlike the French Quarter, evolved under the auspices of predominantly Anglo-American architects hired by newly arriving, and newly wealthy, Americans. Beyond these wealthy homeowners, the Garden District also offers a startlingly diverse and freewheeling history teeming with African American slaves, free men and women of color, French, Italians, Germans, Jews, and Irish, all of whom helped fashion it into one of America's first suburbs and most extraordinary neighborhoods. Fraiser animates the Garden District's story with such notables as Mark Twain; Jefferson Davis; occupying Union general Benjamin Butler; flamboyant steamboat captain Thomas Leathers; crusading Reverend Theodore Clapp; Confederate generals Jubal Early and Leonidas Polk; jazzmen Joe "King" Oliver and Nate "Kid" Ory; champion pugilist John L. Sullivan; local authors Grace King, George Washington Cable, and Anne Rice; Mayor Joseph Shakespeare; architects Henry Howard, Lewis Reynolds, and Thomas Sully; cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner; and Louisiana Lottery co-founder John A. Morris. In words and photographs, Fraiser and Freeman explore the unexpected evolution of this district and reveal how war, plagues, politics, religion, cultural conflict, and architectural innovation shaped the incomparable Garden District.


Life Along The Hudson

Life Along The Hudson

Author: Pieter Estersohn

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0847863239

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This gorgeous oversized tome features thirty-six sublime country homes, many overlooking the Hudson River. This scenic stretch of estates along the Hudson offers some of the finest examples of American architecture and landscape design. The edition's thirty-five featured homes were designed in a range of styles by notable architects Stanford White, A. J. Davis, Calvert Vaux, Warren and Wetmore, and more. All pair exquisite interiors with expansive lush lawns and riverfront views. Formerly country homes for eighteenth-century landed gentry and nineteenth-century industrialists--Astors, Chanlers, Chapmans, Delanos, Roosevelts--they include Dutch colonial cottages and grand Gothic Revival, Federal, Georgian, and Beaux-Arts residences. Constructed on land owned by the influential Livingston family, who settled in the area in the late seventeenth century, many have been restored to their former splendor by the original owners' descendants as well as recent leaders of New York City industry and the arts, including Richard Jenrette and Brice Marden.


An Affair with a House

An Affair with a House

Author: Bunny Williams

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2005-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781584794707

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"[This] book is part memoir, part decorating manual, part entertaining guide, but most of all it's a portrait of a creative couple and their very beautiful, utterly comfortable home."-


Antebellum Architecture of Kentucky

Antebellum Architecture of Kentucky

Author: Clay Lancaster

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780813117591

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" By the author of the acclaimed Antebellum Houses of the Bluegrass, this book includes significant structures from throughout the commonwealth, illustrating the entire range of stylistic architectural development."


A House in the Country

A House in the Country

Author:

Publisher: Vendome Press

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780865653290

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"The inspirational story of a dream house, conceived by a creative couple, architect Peter Pennoyer and interior designer Katie Ridder"--


A Year at Clove Brook Farm

A Year at Clove Brook Farm

Author: Christopher Spitzmiller

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0847869741

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Welcome to a year of sustainable living with renowned ceramicist Christopher Spitzmiller, with advice and inspiration for seasonal entertaining, gardening, tending heritage chickens, and more. Christopher Spitzmiller is known to his many friends and Instagram fans as the ultimate weekend farmer, who raises his own chicks, grows his own flowers, and puts up his own jam, cider, and honey. In his first book, he treats readers to a full year at his country retreat, Clove Brook Farm. Organized into four sections by season, the book begins with spring: the lilacs and appleblossoms, the dovecote with Indian fantail pigeons, Easter lunch, with daffodils and porcelain, and Spitzmiller's recipe for rhubarb pie. Summer brings hydrangeas, dahlias, readying the chickens for the Dutchess County Fair, and a garden cocktail party. Fall focuses on collecting, cider making, an orchard luncheon and a Thanksgiving table, honey-gathering, and planting bulbs. Winter closes the book with holiday decorating, gilding allium, a holiday buffet, and homemade gifts. Filled with tips on creating beautiful seasonal flower arrangements, living with animals, and garden planning, this is a wonderful resource and gift for anyone longing for farmstead living.