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"Opening a fine bottle of wine. The delight of the guests, their mingling chatter and laughter. And then, sharing. A feast. Recipes. A hundred of them." Cooking has always been for me a resourcing experience during which I allow myself to take my time and where time often seems to stand still. Cooking allows me to focus, to explore every aspect of my creativity, to innovate... Thinking about and assembling various recipes at once, adjusting them. Working with beautiful products from the land and sea. Enjoying the diversity of ingredients as seasons change, sensing their scents and tasting their flavors, capable of taking one on a journey through time. In this book, you will find the recipes that have shaped my childhood, those that were passed on to me, and others that came to me later, which I have refined and re-refined, alternating between rigor and lightness. Some dishes are very simple, others more elaborate, but I hope all are delicate and delectable. Always with the same guiding principle: the desire to bring joy to others and to myself. Let these recipes guide you and adapt the ingredients to your own desires.
Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in women’s popular fiction, which began in 1996 with the publication of British author Helen Fielding’s novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, uses first person narration to chronicle the romantic tribulations of its young, single, white, heterosexual, urban heroines. Critics of the genre have failed to fully appreciate chick lit’s complicated representations of women as both readers and consumers. In this study, Smith argues that chick lit questions the "consume and achieve promise" offered by advice manuals marketed toward women, subverting the consumer industry to which it is so closely linked and challenging cultural expectations of women as consumers, readers, and writers, and of popular fiction itself.
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Though New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924–2004) lived at a time of growing dissatisfaction with European cultural models, and though her (auto-)biography, fiction and letters all testify to the fact that a direct encounter between herself and Buddhism occurred, her work has, so far, never been examined from the vantage point of its indebtedness to Buddhism. It is of the utmost significance, however, that a Buddhist navigation of Frame’s texts should shed fresh light on large segments of the Framean corpus which have tended to remain obdurately mysterious. This includes passages centering on such themes as the existence of a non-dual world or a character’s sudden embrace of a non-ego-...