Table Tales

Table Tales

Author: Hanan Sayed Worrell

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 8891817937

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For all food and travel lovers, this unique cookbook is the first to present Abu Dhabi as a culinary crossroads—where the global goes local—and to highlight the people making it happen. In recent decades, Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, has experienced a steady influx of people from around the world, all bringing their culinary influences. From Syria to Spain, India to Italy, Afghanistan to the Americas, an enticing array of aromas, flavors, and textures has blended with the local foodways to create a vibrant urban food culture of reinvention and collaboration, at home and on the streets. In this book, Hanan Sayed Worrell gives us an unprecedented tour of these fascinating culinary treasures. As a long-time resident of Abu Dhabi, the author takes us where few visitors can go: into the homes and lives of locals and expatriates. Through a collection of touching individual stories, delicious recipes, and vibrant photographs, we experience life in this rapidly evolving city. Table Tales: The Global Nomad Cuisine of Abu Dhabi is inspired by the many meals hosted at the Worrell’s dinner table for guests from around the world. As a careful and affectionate observer of the city for over a quarter century, Worrell guides the reader on a culinary pilgrimage by way of its streets, homes, and flavors.


Table Tales: Greyvord

Table Tales: Greyvord

Author: Jarvey O. Torres-Garzon

Publisher: Jarvey Orlando Torres-Garzon

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13:

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The first of many short tales that took place across the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse during the pandemic. Follow an epic, fictional, dumbfounded adventure following a party of brave adventurers and their unlikely journey that stretches across multiple kingdoms. A party that deals with beast, politics, mystery and the occasional natural-one dice roll.


Coffee Table Tales

Coffee Table Tales

Author: Carlene Reed

Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781589612198

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Barbara kills a man in self-defense but will she feel justified when she finds out who he really is? You'll get a sneak peek into the trials and tribulations of being a writer. Jason risks a very profitable future for one night of fun. A woman overcomes a tragic accident. Romance, ghosts and many more await you. Pour a cup of coffee, cuddle up next to the fireplace and enjoy a story or two. This is perfect for reading while waiting in lines at the bank, post office, doctor's offices or any where. Each of these stories can be read in a few minutes and with the different genres being represented there is bound to be something for everyone.


Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

Author: Sara Roahen

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2009-04-20

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0393072061

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“Makes you want to spend a week—immediately—in New Orleans.” —Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal A cocktail is more than a segue to dinner when it’s a Sazerac, an anise-laced drink of rye whiskey and bitters indigenous to New Orleans. For Wisconsin native Sara Roahen, a Sazerac is also a fine accompaniment to raw oysters, a looking glass into the cocktail culture of her own family—and one more way to gain a foothold in her beloved adopted city. Roahen’s stories of personal discovery introduce readers to New Orleans’ well-known signatures—gumbo, po-boys, red beans and rice—and its lesser-known gems: the pho of its Vietnamese immigrants, the braciolone of its Sicilians, and the ya-ka-mein of its street culture. By eating and cooking her way through a place as unique and unexpected as its infamous turducken, Roahen finds a home. And then Katrina. With humor, poignancy, and hope, she conjures up a city that reveled in its food traditions before the storm—and in many ways has been saved by them since.


The Book of Arthur

The Book of Arthur

Author:

Publisher: Konecky & Konecky

Published: 2004-07

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781568524986

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Some of the most fascinating and exciting stories about King Arthur and his knights have been almost completely overlooked. The Book of Arthur offers an extensive selection of these forgotten tales with an introduction detailing their origins and their place in the Arthurian tradition.


The Knights of The Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and The Holy Grail

The Knights of The Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and The Holy Grail

Author: William Henry Frost

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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First published in the year 1897, the present book 'The Knights of the Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail' is a collection of classic tales of adventure that are based on the medieval European history. This volume is compiled by William Henry Frost.


Table Tales

Table Tales

Author: Ray Repp

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781587904530

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TABLE TALES takes you step-by-step, with tips on cookware, keeping recipes as "green" as possible, but more importantly how to do it well beforehand, leaving the barest "finishing touches" just prior to serving or earlier that day.Presented are 15 dinner parties, appetizers on to the finale. In addition to the do-ahead recipes this book is sprinkled with suggestions about hosting the perfect dinner party: from graciously handling early or late arrivals...unwanted gifts for the hosts...a wine glass spilled on the table...flower and candle decorations that don't block eye contact.Ray Repp and Richard Alther, musician and novelist, entertain at frequent dinner parties in their homes in Vermont and Palm Springs, California. TABLE TALES begins each chapter with an amusing conversation--usually funny, a few sobering--that occur at their always vibrant gatherings. Their ideal is six to eight guests so that everyone has the chance to chat one-on-one, if desired, by dinner's end. Usually there are fresh characters for folks to meet and to become possible friends.Ray is the master chef from a lifetime of serious cooking. Rich does the desserts, flowers and place assignments (generally to separate spouses or to ensure an engaging mix). When they throw a dinner party, they themselves have a blast because from the second people arrive everything has been done in advance!Does it take time? Are the recipes sometimes complicated? Yes, indeed to both. This is a cookbook for foodies who can spend an hour here and there, relax and not rush, and freeze enough for two, three or four future occasions. Or, prepare 20 or 30 individual Beef Wellingtons and keep them frozen for the elegant dinner party planned in one month or so.The menus are typically more interesting than the fare at even the best restaurants. Isn't this why everyone loves when friends pamper guests with a dinner party? Unusual food, festive dress, lively talk, and no work!


Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Author: Nicholas Griffin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1451642814

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Combining the insight of Franklin Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World and the intrigue of Ben Affleck’s Argo, Ping Pong Diplomacy traces the story of how an aristocratic British spy used the game of table tennis to propel a Communist strategy that changed the shape of the world. THE SPRING OF 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. After twenty-two years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved toward a détente—achieved not by politicians but by Ping-Pong players. The Western press delighted in the absurdity of the moment and branded it “Ping-Pong Diplomacy.” But for the Chinese, Ping-Pong was always political, a strategic cog in Mao Zedong’s foreign policy. Nicholas Griffin proves that the organized game, from its first breath, was tied to Communism thanks to its founder, Ivor Montagu, son of a wealthy English baron and spy for the Soviet Union. Ping-Pong Diplomacy traces a crucial inter­section of sports and society. Griffin tells the strange and tragic story of how the game was manipulated at the highest levels; how the Chinese government helped cover up the death of 36 million peasants by holding the World Table Tennis Championships during the Great Famine; how championship players were driven to their deaths during the Cultural Revolution; and, finally, how the survivors were reconvened in 1971 and ordered to reach out to their American counterparts. Through a cast of eccentric characters, from spies to hippies and Ping-Pong-obsessed generals to atom-bomb survivors, Griffin explores how a neglected sport was used to help realign the balance of worldwide power.


The Disappearing Spoon

The Disappearing Spoon

Author: Sam Kean

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2010-07-12

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0316089087

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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery -- from the Big Bang through the end of time. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.


The Raven's Table

The Raven's Table

Author: Christine Morgan

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781939905680

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Listen... The furious clangor of battle. The harrowing singing of steel. The desperate cries of wounded animals. The gasps of bleeding, dying men. The slow, deep breathing of terrible things--trolls, giants, draugr--waiting in the darkness. The wolf's wind howling, stalking like death itself. The carrion-crows, avaricious and impatient, circling the battle-ground, the Raven's Table. Listen... The skald's voice, low, canting, weaving tales of fate and heroism, battle and revelry. Of gods and monsters, and of the women and men that stand against them. Of stormy Scandinavian skies and settlements upon strange continents. Of mead-hall victories, funeral pyres, dragon-prowed ships, and gold-laden tombs. Of Ragnarok. Of Valhalla. For a decade, author Christine Morgan's Viking stories have delighted readers and critics alike, standing apart from the anthologies they appeared in. Now, Word Horde brings you The Raven's Table, the first-ever collection of Christine Morgan's Vikings, from "The Barrow-Maid" to "Aerkheim's Horror" and beyond. These tales of adventure, fantasy, and horror will rouse your inner Viking.