Three O'Clock Dinner
Three O'Clock Dinner

Author: Josephine Pinckney

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781570034237

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"Three O'Clock Dinner is a delight."--Weekly Book Review First published in 1945 to international acclaim and winner of the Southern Authors Award, Three O'Clock Dinner is Josephine Pinckney's best-selling novel about an ill-fated marriage on the eve of World War II. This powerful tale written by a consummate Charleston insider and set in the historic city resonates with universal appeal by daring to touch on topics that had been taboo. Three O'Clock Dinner reveals how the modern world has intruded in a most unwelcome way upon the Redcliffs, a Charleston family long on pedigree but short on cash. Mortified when their son "Tat" elopes with the henna-hairied daughter of the Hessenwinkles, an especially galling bourgeois clan, the Redcliffs are determined to respond with civility. They invite their son, his new wife, and her family for Sunday dinner, served at the traditional time of three in the afternoon. Tension builds across an expanse of white damask. After mint julep aperitifs, dinner claret, and Madeira toasts, a chance remark ignites the novel's climax amid a flurry of raised voices, hurt feelings, and broken china. Their new daughter-in-law's revelation further shatters the Redcliffs' well-ordered society but opens a door to forgiveness and redemption.

Three Squares
Three Squares

Author: Abigail Carroll

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0465025528

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We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we follow and the customs we observe at the table and on the go. In Three Squares, food historian Abigail Carroll upends the popular understanding of our most cherished mealtime traditions, revealing that our eating habits have never been stable—far from it, in fact. The eating patterns and ideals we’ve inherited are relatively recent inventions, the products of complex social and economic forces, as well as the efforts of ambitious inventors, scientists and health gurus. Whether we’re pouring ourselves a bowl of cereal, grabbing a quick sandwich, or congregating for a family dinner, our mealtime habits are living artifacts of our collective history—and represent only the latest stage in the evolution of the American meal. Our early meals, Carroll explains, were rustic affairs, often eaten hastily, without utensils, and standing up. Only in the nineteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution upset work schedules and drastically reduced the amount of time Americans could spend on the midday meal, did the shape of our modern “three squares” emerge: quick, simple, and cold breakfasts and lunches and larger, sit-down dinners. Since evening was the only part of the day when families could come together, dinner became a ritual—as American as apple pie. But with the rise of processed foods, snacking has become faster, cheaper, and easier than ever, and many fear for the fate of the cherished family meal as a result. The story of how the simple gruel of our forefathers gave way to snack fixes and fast food, Three Squares also explains how Americans’ eating habits may change in the years to come. Only by understanding the history of the American meal can we can help determine its future.

Splendid in Ashes
Splendid in Ashes

Author: Josephine Pinckney

Publisher: New York : Viking Press

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The fortunes of a dynamic, self-centered Charleston business man and his socialite wife, from 1914 to 1947.

Instant Family Meals
Instant Family Meals

Author: Sarah Copeland

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0593139720

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Make wholesome family favorites with the convenience of your multicooker, slow cooker, electric pressure cooker, and Instant Pot®! “I absolutely love this delicious, nourishing, colorful glimpse into Sarah’s family dining table.”—Molly Yeh, host of Girl Meets Farm and author of Molly on the Range NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOOD NETWORK Sure-bet Turkey Meatball Soup, hearty Double-the-Vegetables Pot Roast, and a Summer Berry Crumble that’s at home on the brunch or dessert table are just a few of the delicious ways Sarah Copeland makes sitting down to a meal with the people you love simpler than ever. From “instant” ready-when-you-wake-up breakfasts to one-pot, no-fuss dinners that cook from start to finish with the push of a button, in Instant Family Meals, you’ll find recipes including: • All-Purpose Crustless Quiche • Coconut Rice Porridge • Soup au Pistou with Pasta and Herbs • Brothy Beef Stew with Dill • Creamy Parmesan Polenta • Marinated Summer Beans • One-Pot Moroccan Chicken and Rice • Red Curry Shrimp with Basil and Lime • Easy Caramel Flan • Double Chocolate Cheesecake Sarah’s time-saving tips, straightforward instructions, and encouraging advice make using any of your multicooker settings a snap.

Dinner with Lenny
Dinner with Lenny

Author: Jonathan Cott

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0199858446

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Features a complete account of the author's twelve-hour interview with Bernstein one year before the classical music personality's death in 1990.

A Talent for Living
A Talent for Living

Author: Barbara L. Bellows

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2006-06-21

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0807131636

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Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and trenchant social commentary found expression in poetry, five novels -- Three O'Clock Dinner was the most successful -- stories, essays, and reviews. Pinckney belonged to a distinguished South Carolina family and often used Charleston as her setting, writing in the tradition of Ellen Glasgow by blending social realism with irony, tragedy, and humor in chronicling the foibles of the South's declining upper class. Barbara L. Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time -- Charleston in the first half of the twentieth century. In A Talent for Living, Pinckney's life unfolds like a novel as she struggles to escape aristocratic codes and the ensnaring bonds of southern ladyhood and to embrace modern freedoms. In 1920, with DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen, she founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which helped spark the southern literary renaissance. Her home became a center of intellectual activity with visitors such as the poet Amy Lowell, the charismatic presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, and the founding editor of theSaturday Review of Literature Henry Seidel Canby. Sophisticated and cosmopolitan, she absorbed popular contemporary influences, particularly that of Freudian psychology, even as she retained an almost Gothic imagination shaped in her youth by the haunting, tragic beauty of the Low Country and its mystical Gullah culture. A skilled stylist, Pinckney excelled in creating memorable characters, but she never scripted an individual as engaging or intriguing as herself. Bellows offers a fascinating, exhaustively researched portrait of this onetime cultural icon and her well-concealed personal life.