Each writer takes a month in this stunning new book capturing the changing beauty of Vermont's incomparable countryside. Every lover of Vermont will relish this portfolio of over 100 full-color photographs accompanied by poetry and prose that add insight and meaning to the visual experience.Authors include Chris Bohjalian, David Budbill, Galway Kinnell, Reeve Lindbergh, Howard Frank Mosher, Noel Perrin, Katherine Patterson, Castle Freeman, Julia Alvarez, and others.
Not your average best-of-American-home-cooking cookbook. A new season of great recipes from the hit TV show Cook's Country. Take a recipe road trip across America with Cook's Country at the wheel and cook along with the TV show. Discover recipes that are foolproof recreations of classic and regional favorites--from small towns to big cities. Season 12 recipes include American classics like Cast Iron Baked Chicken and Grilled Bacon Burgers with Caramelized Onion as well as newly re-created recipes for Monroe County-Style Pork Chops and Drop Meatballs. And revel in 3 chapters of desserts, including Gooey Butter Cake Bars and Blueberry Jam Cake. In addition to more than 450 recipes for great American food, you'll get information on the origins and inspiration behind many of the dishes. A comprehensive shopping guide lists all of the winning products featured on the TV show.
From the Mayflower’s landing to the age of the internet, New Englanders have always had something to say. Focusing on the unique qualities of both land and people, The Quotable New Englander showcases the linguistic insight of the region’s native and adopted sons and daughters, from writers like Emily Dickinson to politicians like John F. Kennedy. Sometimes insightful, sometimes hilarious, these quotes will have readers smiling, laughing, and shaking their heads.
In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse print sources from family genealogical registers to seed catalogs, the four seasons appear and reappear as a theme in American culture. In this richly illustrated book, Michael Kammen traces the appeal of the four seasons motif in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Its symbolism has evolved through the years, Kammen explains, serving as a metaphor for the human life cycle or religious faith, expressing nostalgia for rural life, and sometimes praising seasonal beauty in the diverse American landscape as the most spectacular in the world. Kammen also highlights artists' and writers' shift in attention from the glories of seasonal peaks to the dynamics of seasonal transitions as American life continued to accelerate and change through the twentieth century. Few symbols have been as pervasive, meaningful, and symptomatic in the human experience as the four seasons, and as Kammen shows, in its American context the annual cycle has been an abundant and abiding source of inspiration in the nation's cultural history.
