Leopold's Ice Cream
Leopold's Ice Cream

Author: Melanie Bowden Simón

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-27

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578620190

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The three young Leopold brothers, George, Peter, and Basil, traveled from Greece to Ellis Island to begin their American experience in the early 1900s, eventually finding their way to Savannah, Georgia, where they established a humble fruit and ice cream stand in 1919 that became a cornerstone of the community, and later an iconic venue in the heart of an international destination.Leopold's Ice Cream, founded on integrity, hard work, and commitment to the community, has defined memories for locals and visitors for decades with a genuine commitment to excellence and hospitality. Peter Leopold's youngest son, Stratton, who worked in the family business since the age of ten, harnessed his family's values and traditions to forge his own successful path in the film industry for more than forty years. Today, Stratton and his wife, Mary, continue to honor the family legacy, serving the renowned, one-hundred-year-old artisan ice cream recipes in a classic soda fountain setting to visitors from around the world, and shipping pints to customers across the country. This book lovingly captures a glimpse of Leopold's Ice Cream over the last century, as family and guests vividly bring to life its history with personal memories, letters, photos, and recipes. Praise for Leopold's Ice Cream"Though Stratton ventured to Hollywood to become a successful film producer for more than four decades, traveling to far reaches of the world, he never forgot his roots. . . The Leopold's story is the embodiment of the American Dream across two generations. I salute Leopold's Ice Cream in its centennial year and look forward to the next home delivery of my favorite butter pecan ice cream!" -President Jimmy Carter"Leopold's is by far the best place to get ice cream in the heart of Savannah." -Ben Affleck, Academy Award?-winning actor, director, producer, and screenwriter "Leopold's is simply the most delicious temptation." -Helen Mirren, Academy Award?-winning actress "Leopold's-it's the best ice cream ever." -Taylor Hackford, Academy Award?-winning film director

La Americana
La Americana

Author: Melanie Bowden Simón

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781510726536

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La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simón, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Brown’s Talk magazine following the death of her mother and decided to take a vacation in Havana, Cuba, with a friend. Little did she know that she would meet and fall in love with a Cuban man named Luis and dive headlong into a culture defined by beauty, humor, and grace within the unnerving realities of Communism.In this memoir, Simón details her fascination with Cuban culture as she grapples with the death of her mother. She also covers the struggle to get in and out of Cuba at a time when the country is a pariah state. Yet over and over again, Simón manages to slip past international barriers and overcome language and cultural obstacles—all in the name of her love for Luis.This book makes a great read for those with an interest in Cuban history, a zest for romance, or a passion for travel.

Ward Allen
Ward Allen

Author: John Cay Jr.

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 099145250X

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Unnumbered plates are from the movie Savannah based on this book.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Author: John Berendt

Publisher: Random House

Published: 1994-01-13

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0679429220

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

Indianapolis
Indianapolis

Author: Lynn Vincent

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 1501135953

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * “A MUST-READ.” —Booklist (starred review) A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, nearly nine hundred men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. For the first time Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own in “a wonderful book…that features grievous mistakes, extraordinary courage, unimaginable horror, and a cover-up…as complete an account of this tragic tale as we are likely to have” (The Christian Science Monitor). It begins in 1932, when Indianapolis is christened and continues through World War II, when the ship embarks on her final world-changing mission: delivering the core of the atomic bomb to the Pacific for the strike on Hiroshima. “Simply outstanding…Indianapolis is a must-read…a tour de force of true human drama” (Booklist, starred review) that goes beyond the men’s rescue to chronicle the survivors’ fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. “Enthralling…A gripping study of the greatest sea disaster in the history of the US Navy and its aftermath” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Indianapolis stands as both groundbreaking naval history and spellbinding narrative—and brings the ship and her heroic crew back to full, vivid, unforgettable life. “Vincent and Vladic have delivered an account that stands out through its crisp writing and superb research…Indianapolis is sure to hold its own for a long time” (USA TODAY).

Leopold's New Scoop
Leopold's New Scoop

Author: Prendergast

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780692490778

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It's ice cream-lover Lenny Munchompolous' first day on the job at Leopold's Ice Cream, and he could not be anymore excited. In the attempt to earn his official Ice Cream Scoop Hat, Lenny washes, scrubs, and scoops through his training. It's all fun and ice cream until Lenny scoops for the dastardly Leopold's ice cream thief himself, Gary A. Gobbleton. WILL LENNY SAVE THE ICE CREAM FOR LEOPOLD'S AND ALL OF HUMANITY?! OR WILL GARY A. GOBBLETON END THE WORLD?! Find out in "Leopold's New Scoop"!

The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook
The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook

Author: Paula H. Deen

Publisher: Random House (NY)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1400068231

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From one of the most frequently visited restaurants in Savannah, The Lady & Sons, comes this collection of down-home Southern family favorites.

Fordlandia
Fordlandia

Author: Greg Grandin

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781429938013

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The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself, along with its golf courses, ice-cream shops, bandstands, indoor plumbing, and Model Ts rolling down broad streets. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, quickly became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the car magnate, lean, austere, the man who reduced industrial production to its simplest motions; on the other, the Amazon, lush, extravagant, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Ford's early success in imposing time clocks and square dances on the jungle soon collapsed, as indigenous workers, rejecting his midwestern Puritanism, turned the place into a ribald tropical boomtown. Fordlandia's eventual demise as a rubber plantation foreshadowed the practices that today are laying waste to the rain forest. More than a parable of one man's arrogant attempt to force his will on the natural world, Fordlandia depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch. As Greg Grandin shows in this gripping and mordantly observed history, Ford's great delusion was not that the Amazon could be tamed but that the forces of capitalism, once released, might yet be contained. Fordlandia is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Ice Cream
Ice Cream

Author: Laura B. Weiss

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1861899920

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Be it soft-serve, gelato, frozen custard, Indian kulfi or Israeli glida, some form of cold, sweet ice cream treat can found throughout the world in restaurants and home freezers. Though ice cream was once considered a food for the elite, it has evolved into one of the most successful mass-market products ever developed. In Ice Cream, food writer Laura B. Weiss takes the reader on a vibrant trip through the history of ice cream from ancient China to modern-day Tokyo in order to tell the lively story of how this delicious indulgence became a global sensation. Weiss tells of donkeys wooed with ice cream cones, Good Humor-loving World War II-era German diplomats, and sundaes with names such as “Over the Top” and “George Washington.” Her account is populated with Chinese emperors, English kings, former slaves, women inventors, shrewd entrepreneurs, Italian immigrant hokey-pokey ice cream vendors, and gourmand American First Ladies. Today American brands dominate the world ice cream market, but vibrant dessert cultures like Italy’s continue to thrive, and new ones, like Japan’s, flourish through unique variations. Weiss connects this much-loved food with its place in history, making this a book sure to be enjoyed by all who are beckoned by the siren song of the ice cream truck.