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Posted by: Alan in Book Reviews, Books, Christmas, CookBooks, Photography, Short Takes
Yes, I know that we are fully half a year away from Independence Day when a book celebrating the United States flag might be most appropriate, but I came across this lavishly illustrated, Very Over-Sized coffee table book the other day and just Had to share it. Long May She Wave is a history of Old Glory that is loaded with pictures of every depicition of the flag imagineable from actual flags to knitted and crotcheted rugs and matts to products like a cell phone and an airplance, completely wrapped in stars and stripes. At a USD 60.00 cover price I can’t really recommend buying it, but it is sure worth a visit to 929.9209 at the library to check it out. Recommended.
Christmas With Paula Deen was a new release this just past holiday season. I requested a copy as soon as I heard about it, but unfortunately the book did not find its way to me until after the holidays were over. With recipes like fudge made from Velveeta cheese and cocoa, this special holiday installment with my Favorite southern lady and Food Network start is going to be either Very good or Relly awful. You may have to wait until next Christmas time to find out which. (And 200ec to anyone who actually Makes the Velveeta fudge and reports back to the comments here how it is.) Verdict Still Out.
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January 26th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
A colleague brought in fudge made with Velveeta over Christmas and it was great. I didn’t know it had Velveeta in it til after eating it but I tried to discern the taste in my second piece and I just couldn’t taste it. I’m very good at reproducing recipes by taste but this one would not have worked since I couldn’t tell the Velveeta was there at all.
January 26th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I don’t know if you caught the episode of ‘Iron Chef America’ with Paula Deen on it or not, but she made some chocolate fudge with cheese in it and the judges really liked it. I don’t know if I’d actually try it but if it helped her win the battle in Kitchen Stadium it might be worth a try!
January 27th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Chocolate with Velveeta, maybe not for me. But I just tried a piece of dark chocolate at the same time as a piece of sharp cheddar. It was actually quite good, although I really needed a much smaller piece of the cheese as it seems to overpower the chocolate.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Hi,
As the photographer of “Long May She Wave” I’d like to alert you to a series of new book designed, written + photographed by
the same team. This series published by Ten Speed Press is entitled “100 Icons” + currently covers “100 Baseball Icons” from
the National Baseball Hall of Fames collection and “100 Flag Icons” from the collection of Kit Hinrichs (author of “Long May She Wave”)
The 9 inch square hard bound book series will concentrate on unique collections from museums + private collectors.
Thank you,
Terry Heffernan
photographer of “Long May She Wave”, “Art of the Gaman” “100 Baseball Icons” + “100 Flag Icons”
April 7th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Thanks for stopping by, Terry. I will look for the other titles you mention at work.
Best wishes,
Alan/Libdrone