Mississippi Comforts
Mississippi Comforts

Author: Ray Flowers

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2021-09-13

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1637104146

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This unique book is a rare find. The author takes the reader on a myriad of real-life experiences and emotions. It is no wonder that the author has been chosen as the new Mark Twain by many circles. Have you ever heard of someone who has listened firsthand a person who lived through the civil war? The author has. Have you ever had to confront a close family member about a life-threatening habit? The author has. Have you ever dreamed of a storybook childhood riddled with unbridled happiness in one moment, with gut-wrenching emotions the next? The author has and writes it beautifully. This is a feel-good story from beginning to end. This is a Kleenex-nearby story. Imagine the exhilaration of a seventeen-year-old kid who simply hears and obeys his best friend, famous physician who happens to be his dad who's instructed the author how to deliver a baby. The author has...six times. Ride with the author as he takes you along with his trusty rifle and his ever-faithful German shepherd dog named Fella as they frolic through the deep woods of rural Mississippi. This was a tumultuous time for our history. During the 1960s and 1970s, when civil unrest was not the exception, it was the norm. Have you ever consoled a friend, whose skin happened to be black, when a field close by his home had just been burned by the KKK? The author has. Have you ever been scared for your life in the present of an operational alcohol-producing still? The author has. Have you ever had an ever-faithful companion who happened to have four legs? This dog is nothing short of amazing. He is a trusted friend and ally for an entire decade. He defends and keeping it ever closer to watch her brother. He is a well-trained German shepherd, willing and able to do his master's bidding. Have you ever seen up close and personal racial injustice an inequality? The author has. Have you ever stood by a close friend who was a man of color, wow he was being spit upon, and scorned simply because of the color of his skin? The author has. The author has a knack for getting underneath your fingernails and scratching a chalkboard with them while you are enjoying the pain. He has a rare gift, setting himself apart from most other authors. What rare find it is when one can enjoy the variety of stories, experiences, and emotions found in one book. This is truly a gift. Enjoy!

Comfort Food
Comfort Food

Author: Michael Owen Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781496810854

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The perfect collection for anyone seeking to understand the cultural importance of comfort food

Mississippi Barking
Mississippi Barking

Author: Chris McLaughlin

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1496836014

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On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like many others in America and around the world, Chris McLaughlin watched the tragedy of Katrina unfold on a television screen from the comfort of her living room on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the devastation afterwards, almost 2,000 people and an estimated 250,000 animals had perished. Miraculously, many pets did manage to survive. But in the months that followed the hurricane, thousands of them were fending for themselves in the ruins of devastated neighborhoods. They roamed the streets in feral packs or struck out alone. Their plight triggered a grassroots rescue effort unlike any this country had ever seen, and while relief organizations such as the Red Cross were tending to the human survivors, and movie stars and celebrities were airlifting food and endorsing seven-figure checks, a much smaller and meagerly funded effort was underway to save the four-legged victims. With no prior experience in disaster response and no real grasp of the hell that awaited them, scores of animal lovers, including McLaughlin, made their way to the Gulf Coast to help in any way they could. Including photos from four-time Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Carol Guzy, Mississippi Barking spans the course of two years as McLaughlin and others ventured into the wreckage of the Gulf Coast to rescue the animals left behind. McLaughlin tells the moving stories of the people she met along the way, both those who lost everything to the hurricane and those working beside her rescuing and transporting animals away from the neglected, derelict conditions in which they barely survived. Within this story of tragedy and cruelty, suffering and ignorance, Mississippi Barking also bears witness to selfless acts of bravery and compassion, and the beauty and heroics of those who risked everything to save the animals that could not save themselves.

Mississippi Vegan
Mississippi Vegan

Author: Timothy Pakron

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0735218145

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Celebrate the gorgeous and delicious possibilities of plant-based Southern cuisine. Inspired by the landscape and flavors of his childhood on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Timothy Pakron found his heart, soul, and calling in cooking the Cajun, Creole, and southern classics of his youth. In his debut cookbook, he shares 125 plant-based recipes, all of which substitute ingredients without sacrificing depth of flavor and reveal the secret tradition of veganism in southern cooking. Finding ways to re-create his experiences growing up in the South--making mud pies and admiring the deep pink azaleas--on the plate, Pakron looks to history and nature as his guides to creating the richest food possible. Filled with as many evocative photographs and stories as easy-to-follow recipes, Mississippi Vegan is an ode to the transporting and ethereal beauty of the food and places you love.

Mississippi Quilts
Mississippi Quilts

Author: Mary Elizabeth Johnson

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781578063581

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These examples evince both the art and the craft during a golden age of handcrafting, from the early 1800s until 1946, a time before the widespread use of motorized sewing machines, synthetic fabrics, and prefabricated batting."--BOOK JACKET.

Delta Jewels
Delta Jewels

Author: Alysia Burton Steele

Publisher: Center Street

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1455562831

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Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.

Home Comforts
Home Comforts

Author: Cheryl Mendelson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-05-17

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 0743272862

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A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.

Comfort and Glory
Comfort and Glory

Author: Katherine Jean Adams

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1477309195

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Quilts bear witness to the American experience. With a history that spans the early republic to the present day, this form of textile art can illuminate many areas of American life, such as immigration and settlement, the development of our nation’s textile industry, and the growth of mass media and marketing. In short, each quilt tells a story that is integral to America’s history. Comfort and Glory introduces an outstanding collection of American quilts and quilt history documentation, the Winedale Quilt Collection at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. This volume showcases 115 quilts—nearly one-quarter of the Winedale Collection—through stunning color photographs (including details) and essays about each quilt’s history and construction. The selections span more than two hundred years of American quiltmaking and represent a broad range of traditional styles and functions. Utility quilts, some worn or faded, join show quilts, needlework masterpieces, and “best” quilts saved for special occasions. Texas quilts, including those made in or brought to Texas during the nineteenth century, constitute a significant number of the selections. Color photographs of related documents and material culture objects from the Briscoe Center’s collections—quilting templates, a painted bride’s box, sheet music, a homespun dress, a brass sewing bird, and political ephemera, among them—enrich the stories of many of the quilts.

Race Against Time
Race Against Time

Author: Jerry Mitchell

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1451645147

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“For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice finally prevailed.” —John Grisham, author of The Guardians On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed. It took forty-one years before the mastermind was brought to trial and finally convicted for the three innocent lives he took. If there is one man who helped pave the way for justice, it is investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell. In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement, decades after the fact. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham and the Mississippi Burning case. Mitchell reveals how he unearthed secret documents, found long-lost suspects and witnesses, building up evidence strong enough to take on the Klan. He takes us into every harrowing scene along the way, as when Mitchell goes into the lion’s den, meeting one-on-one with the very murderers he is seeking to catch. His efforts have put four leading Klansmen behind bars, years after they thought they had gotten away with murder. Race Against Time is an astonishing, courageous story capturing a historic race for justice, as the past is uncovered, clue by clue, and long-ignored evils are brought into the light. This is a landmark book and essential reading for all Americans.

Saveur: The New Comfort Food
Saveur: The New Comfort Food

Author: James Oseland

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2011-04-29

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1452105391

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The acclaimed food magazine presents a wide-ranging celebration of regional American and international dishes that have shaped today’s comfort foods. A steaming bowl of udon noodles, a bubbling serving of macaroni and cheese, a hearty helping of huevos rancheros, a perfectly browned grilled cheese sandwich—these are just some of the 100 mouthwatering recipes in this extraordinary volume that highlights the pleasures of comfort food in all its diversity. Brimming with more than 200 stunning photographs and memorable sidebars that present the people, ingredients, and techniques involved in the recipes, Saveur: The New Comfort Food is an unforgettable journey behind the scenes of our favorite heartwarming dishes.