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That's right – while most people have a few shelves filled with cookbooks I have a room dedicated to my collection and it is without doubt my favourite room in our house! That being said it does also double as our spare room and at risk of scaring off any guests that stay I have limited myself to only four sets of bookshelves to hold my personal cookbook library. The bookshelves bend and sag as they are so crammed full with a huge assortment of cookbooks that are all very special to me in one way or another. Most of the books I inherited from a very special and dear friend who I am sad to say is no longer with us, but her love of cookbooks lives on through me and I try my best to keep adding to the collection. Unfortunately the size restraints of our house and the enormity of the library means that not all books are out on display and it saddens me to admit that about half of my collection remain in big brown boxes safely tucked away in storage, however it is my plan to one day have every book out and within arms reach, ready to be read and re-read! So until that day arrives here is roughly half of my collection....As I said it is a vast assortment of books lovingly accumulated over years by myself and the lovely Mrs Dobson and will just continue to grow.
As time permits I will try and add notes and reviews to the books. Any books marked with (R) have been reviewed so click on the title to see what I thought about that book. Happy Reading and of course Happy Cooking!
Delia Smith's Complete Illustrated Cookery Course – Delia Smith
One is Fun! - Delia Smith
How to Cook Book 1 - Delia Smith
How to Cook Book 2 – Delia Smith
How to Cook Book 3 – Delia Smith
The Delia Collection Soup - Delia Smith
The Delia Collection Chicken - Delia Smith
The Delia Collection Chocolate - Delia Smith
The Delia Collection Fish - Delia Smith
The Delia Collection Italian - Delia Smith
The Delia Collection Pork - Delia Smith
The Delia Collection Baking - Delia Smith
Delia's Vegetarian Collection - Delia Smith
Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking - Delia Smith
Delia's Happy Christmas - Delia Smith
Real Fast Food – Nigel Slater
Real Fast Puddings – Nigel Slater
Real Cooking – Nigel Slater
The 30 Minute Cook – Nigel Slater
Real Good Food – Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater's Real Food – Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater's Appetite – Nigel Slater
Eating for England – Nigel Slater
Thirst – Nigel Slater
The Kitchen Diaries – Nigel Slater
Tender Volume 1 – Nigel Slater
Tender Volume 2 – Nigel Slater
How to be a Domestic Goddess – Nigella Lawson
How to Eat – Nigella Lawson
Nigella Bites – Nigella Lawson
Forever Summer – Nigella Lawson (R)
Nigella Feasts – Nigella Lawson
Nigella Express – Nigella Lawson (R)
Nigella Christmas – Nigella Lawson
Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home – Nigella Lawson (R)
Nigellissima: Instant Italian Inspiration - Nigella Lawson (R)
The Naked Chef – Jamie Oliver
The Return of the Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver
Happy Days with the Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver
Jamie's Kitchen - Jamie Oliver
Jamie's Dinners - Jamie Oliver
Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making you a Better Cook - Jamie Oliver
Jamie's Italy - Jamie Oliver
Jamie at Home - Jamie Oliver
Jamie Does - Jamie Oliver
Jamie's America - Jamie Oliver
30 Minute Meals - Jamie Oliver (R)
Jamie's Great Britain - Jamie Oliver
Jamie's 15 Minute Meals (R)
Save with Jamie - Jamie Oliver
Jamie's Comfort Food - Jamie Oliver
Gordon Ramsay's Secrets
Gordon Ramsay's Passion for Seafood – Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay's Passion for Flavour – Gordon Ramsay
A Chef for All Seasons – Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay's Just Desserts – Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy – Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food – Gordon Ramsay
Kitchen Heaven – Gordon Ramsay
Healthy Appetite – Gordon Ramsay
Cooking for Friends – Gordon Ramsay
Sunday Lunch – Gordon Ramsay
*** Chef – Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay's Family Fare – Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course - Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Home Cooking - Gordon Ramsay
Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odessy - Rick Stein
Coast to Coast - Rick Stein
Flavours – Donna Hay
Off the Shelf – Donna Hay
Instant Entertaining – Donna Hay
Modern Classics 1 – Donna Hay
Modern Classics 2 – Donna Hay
Entertaining - Donna Hay
Simple Essentials: Chicken - Donna Hay
Simple Essentials: Beef & Pork - Donna Hay
Simple Essentials: Pasta, Noodles & Rice - Donna Hay
Simple Essentials: Salads & Vegetables - Donna Hay
Simple Essentials: Fruit - Donna Hay
Simple Essentials: Chocolate - Donna Hay
Simple Essentials: Christmas - Donna Hay
Simple Dinners - Donna Hay (R)
Good Food – Neil Perry
The Food I Love – Neil Perry
Balance and Harmony – Neil Perry
Simply Bill – Bill Granger
Holiday – Bill Granger
Bills Sydney Food – Bill Granger
Feed Me Now! - Bill Granger
Bill's Everyday Asian - Bill Granger
Bill Granger Easy - Bill Granger (R)
Simple Food – Jill Dupleix
Very Simple Food – Jill Dupleix
Totally Simple Food – Jill Dupleix
Good Cooking – Jill Dupleix
The Cook's Companion – Stephanie Alexander
A Year in my Kitchen – Skye Gyngell
My Favourite Ingredients – Skye Gyngell
How I Cook – Skye Gyngell
Entertaining At Home – Rachel Allen
Home Cooking – Rachel Allen (R)
Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights - Sophie Dahl
Season to Season: A Year of Recipes - Sophie Dahl
In the Mood for Food – Jo Pratt
In the Mood for Entertaining – Jo Pratt
Madhouse Cookbook - Jo Pratt (R)
In Search of Perfection – Heston Blumenthal
Further Advances in Search of Perfection – Heston Blumenthal
Family Food – Heston Blumenthal
The Big Fat Duck Cookbook – Heston Blumenthal
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine – Elizabeth David
French Country Cooking – Elizabeth David
English Bread and Yeast Cookery – Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David Classic's (Mediterranean Food – French Country Cooking – Summer Cooking)
Summer Cooking – Elizabeth David
Italian Food – Elizabeth David
A Book of Mediterranean Food – Elizabeth David
Is there a Nutmeg in the House – Elizabeth David
South Wind Through the Kitchen – Elizabeth David
French Provincial Cooking – Elizabeth David
Harvest of the Cold Months – Elizabeth David
Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen – Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David's Christmas – Elizabeth David
Everyday Novelli – Jean Christophe Novelli
Only the Best – Michel Roux
A Life in the Kitchen – Michel Roux Jr.
The Constance Spry Cookery Book – Constance Spry
The Enjoyment of Food – The Best of Jane Grigson – Jane Grigson
Good Things - Jane Grigson
Jane Grigson's Fruit Book – Jane Grigson
Jane Grigson's English Food
The River Cottage Cookbook – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
The River Cottage Meat Book – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
River Cottage Everyday – Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall
River Cottage Light and Easy - Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall (New!) (Kindle)
Tom Aikens Cooking – Tom Aikens
Matt Moran – Matt Moran
Live, Love, Eat! - Wolfgang Puck
Tetsuya – Tetsuya Wakuda
How to Cook the Perfect.... - Marcus Wareing
Once Perfect Ingredient – Marcus Warening
Apples for Jam – Tessa Kiros
In my Kitchen – Annie Bell
Gorgeous Suppers – Annie Bell
Gorgeous Greens – Annie Bell
Gorgeous Desserts – Annie Bell
Gorgeous Cakes – Annie Bell
Gorgeous Christmas – Annie Bell
The Hairy Biker's Food Tour of Britain - Dave Myers & Si King
The Hairy Biker's Mum's Know Best Family Cookbook - Dave Myers & Si King
The Hairy Dieter's: How to Love Food & Lose Weight - Dave Myers & Si King (R)
The Hairy Dieter's: Eat for Life: Dave Myers & Si King
The Hairy Dieter's, Book 3: Good Eating
Cook – Thomasina Miers
Classic Conran – Terence Conran & Vicki Conran
Charlic Trotter Cooks at Home – Charlie Trotter
The Vicar's Wife Cookbook – Elisa Beynon
Recipes from a Rectory Kitchen – Joyce Critchlow
Good Tempered Food – Tamasin Day-Lewis
Ducasse Made Simple by Sophie – Alain Ducasse & Sophie Dudemaine
Grand Livre de Cuisine: Alain Ducasse's Culinary Encyclopedia
Grand Livre de Cuisine: Alain Ducasse's Desserts & Pastries
Home Food – Shore & Townsend
Simply the Best: Demonstrating Our Love of Good Food – Gardner Merchant
Off Duty: The World's Greatest Chefs Cook at Home {Ted Smart}
Ricardo: Meals for Every Occasion – Ricardo Larrivee
Fired Up – Ross Dobson (R)
Fired Up Vegetarian - Ross Dobson (New!)
Casual Entertaining - Ross Dobson (R)
Wholesome Kitchen - Ross Dobson
Gourmet Food for a Fiver – Jason Atherton
How to Eat In – Adam Byatt
Spooning with Rosie - Rosie Lovell
Classic Bull – Stephen Bull
Home Food – Richard Whittington
The Richard Corrigan Cookbook - Richard Corrigan
The Clatter of Forks and Spoons – Richard Corrigan
Barefoot Contessa at Home – Ina Garten
A Platter of Figs – David Tanis
Heart of the Artichoke & Other Kitchen Stories - David Tanis
Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen – Sophie Grigson
Lotte's Country Kitchen – Lotte Duncan
A Slice of Cherry Pie - Julia Parsons
My Father's Daughter: Delicious Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness - Gwyneth Paltrow (R)
Full of Flavour - Maria Elia (R)
A Taste of Home - Angela Harnett (R)
Good Things to Eat - Lucas Hollweg
Tana's Kitchen Secrets - Tana Ramsay
Whitewater Cooks - Shelley Adams
Whitewater Cooks with Friends - Shelley Adams (R)
Whitewater Cooks with Passion - Shelley Adams (R)
The Weekend Cookbook - Catherine Hill
Around the World in 80 Dishes
My Grill - Pete Evans
The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making - Alana Chernila
Pretty Delicious: Lean& Lovely Recipes for a Healthy, Happy New You – Candice Kumai
Eat Yourself Thin Faster
The Wellness Kitchen - Paulette Lambert (New) (R)
Celebrate - Pippa Middleton
Great Pub Food: Make Home Your New Local - Rachel Lane
Spice Trip: The Simple Way to Make Food Exciting - Stevie Parle and Emma Grazette
Clodagh's Kitchen Diaries: Delicious Recipes Throughout the Year - Clodagh McKenna (R)
Recipes from my Mother for my Daughter - Lisa Faulkner
The Way I Cook - Lisa Faulkner
What's for Dinner - Curtis Stone (R)
Homemade Summer - Yvette van Boven (R)
Homemade Winter - Yvette van Boven
Homemade - Yvette van Boven
Lorraine Pascale's Fast, Fresh & Easy Food - Lorraine Pascale
How to be a Better Cook - Lorraine Pascale
Tom Kerridge's Proper Pub Food - Tom Kerridge
Slow Cooking: Mouthwatering Recipes with Minimum Effort - James Martin
Home Cooking - James Martin
Bobby Flay's Bar Americain Cookbook - Bobby Flay
Faking It - Valli Little (Delicious)
How to Cook Everything Fast - Mark Bittman (R)
A Change of Appetite - Diana Henry
The River Cafe Cook Book – Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers
River Cafe Cook Book Two – Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers
River Cafe Cook Book Green – Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers
River Cafe Cook Book Easy – Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers
River Cafe Two Easy – Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers
Rive Cafe Italian Kitchen – Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers
The River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook – Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers
The Harry's Bar Cookbook – Arrigo Cipriani
The Zuni Cafe Cookbook – Judy Rodgers
Est Est Est Cookbook
Best Places Seattle Cookbook – Nims & Casey
From Emeril's Kitchens: Favourite Recipes from Emeril's Restaurants – Emeril Lagasse
Franco & Friends – Ann & Franco Taruschio
Leaves from the Walnut Tree - Ann & Franco Taruschio
Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook – Alice Waters
Chez Panisse Cooking – Paul Bertolli with Alice Waters
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook – Alice Waters
Chez Panisse Fruit – Alice Waters
Chez Panisse Desserts – Lindsey Remolif Shere {Preface by Alice Waters}
Le Gavroche Cookbook
Bistro – Philip Johnson
Pourcel Brothers Cookbook – Jacques & Laurent Pourcel
Breakfast-Lunch-Tea {Rose Bakery} – Rose Carrarini
Sally Clarke's Book
Cooking at The Merchant House – Shaun Hill
Better Gravy & Other Kitchen Secrets – Shaun Hill
New Bistro – Fran Warde
Dolce Italiano – Gina De Palma
elBulli 1994-1997
elBulli 1998 – 2002
elBulli 2003
elBulli 2004
A Day at elBulli: An insight into the ideas, methods and creativity of Ferran Adria
The French Laundy Cookbook – Thomas Keller
Bouchon – Thomas Keller
Under Pressure - Thomas Keller
Ad Hoc at Home - Thomas Keller
Cookbook by Martin Wishart
Essence – David Everitt-Matthias
Maze the Cookbook – Jason Atherton
Sunday Suppers at Lucques – Suzanne Goin with Teri Gelber
The Ivy: The Restaurant and its Recipes – AA Gill
The Savoy Cookbook – Anton Edelmann
Quaglino's: The Cookbook – Richard Whittington
The Three Chimneys – Shirley Spear
La Potiniere - David & Hilary Brown
Simple Cafe Food – Julie Le Clerc
Ottolenghi – Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi
Avoca Cafe Cookbook – Hugo Arnold with Leslie Hayes
Avoca Cafe Cookbook 2 – Hugo Arnold with Leslie Hayes
Paradiso Seasons – Dennis Cotter
The Cafe Paradiso Cookbook – Dennis Cotter
Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant – James Walt & John Sherlock
The Bibendum Cookbook – Conran, Hopkinson, Harris
The Complete Robuchon – Joel Robuchon
The Oxford Companion to Food {1st ed.} - Alan Davidson
The Oxford Companion to Food {2nd ed.} - Alan Davidson
The Oxford Companion to American Food & Drink
Larousse Gastronomique {1st ed.1961} – Prosper Montagne
Larousse Gastronomique {1988} - Prosper Montagne and Robert J. Courtine
Larousse Gastronomique {2001} – Prosper Montagne
Larousse Gastronomique (2009)
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen – Harold McGee
The Cook's Encyclopedia – Tom Stobart
Leiths Techniques Bible – Susan Spaull & Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne
Knife Skills – Marcus Wareing/ Shaun Hill/ Charlie Trotter & Lyn Hall
Culinary Pleasures – Nicola Humble
Will Write for Food – Dianne Jacob
The Writer's Guide to Getting Published – Chriss McCallum
A Tale of 12 Kitchens – Jake Tilson
Cooking Lessons – Daisy Garnett
Kitchen Essays – Agnus Jekyll
The Cooks Companion -
It Must've Been Something I Ate – Jeffrey Steingarten
Roast Chicken and Other Stories – Simon Hopkinson with Lindsay Bareham
Second Helpings of Roast Chicken – Simon Hopkinson
Gammon & Spinach – Simon Hopkinson
Week In Week Out – Simon Hopkinson
Sacre Cordon Bleu: What the French know about cooking – Michael Booth
Freud on Food – Clement Freud
Slow Food - Foreword by Carlo Petrini
The Macaroni's in the Basement - Fran Claro (R)
Ideal Home Entertaining – Susan Spaull
The Sunday Times Vitality Cookbook – Susan Clark
Joy of Cooking – Rombauer/Becker/Becker
Good Housekeeping Cookery Book
Good Housekeeping Eat Well, Stay Well
Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery Course – Darina Allen
Rosemary Shrager's School for Cooks – Rosemary Shrager
Food & Wine: The Magazine's Annual Cookbook 2007
Food & Wine: Best of the Best Vol. 10
Diva Cooking – Victoria Blashford-Snell & Jennifer Joyce (R)
Hot Hot Hot! Cooking with Fire and Spice – Paul Gayler
InStyle Parties
Afternoon Tea Parties – Susannah Blake
Party Food Made Easy – Abigail Brown/ Thomas Garcia/ Michele Gomes & Melissa Web
Healthy Dinner Party Recipes
Something for the Weekend – Ruth Watson
The Really Helpful Cookbook – Ruth Watson
How To Feed Your Friends with Relish – Joanna Weinberg
Supergrub – Malcolm Gluck & Silvena Rowe
Much Depends on Dinner – edited by Carolyn Hart
Today's Special – Anthony Demetre
Cook Simple – Diana Henry
Just One Pot – Lindsay Bareham
10 Minutes to the Table – Xanthe Clay
Recipes to Know by Heart – Xanthe Clay
Mains – Jane Price
No Place Like Home – Rowley Leigh
Masterchef 1995
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 1
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 2
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 3
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 4
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 5
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 6
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 7
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 8
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 9
One Year at Books For Cooks No. 10
Lola's Ice Creams & Sundaes – Morfudd Richard's
Ices The Definitive Guide – Caroline Liddell & Robin Weir
Ices Italia – Linda Tubby
Ice Cream – Joanna Farrow & Sara Lewis
The Ice Cream Maker Companion – Avner Laskin
Paleo Ice Cream - Ben Hirshberg (New)
La Patisserie De Pierre Herme – Montagud Editores
Indulge 100 Perfect Desserts – Claire Clark
Desserts – James Martin
Room For Dessert – Lebovitz
Proof of the Pudding – Phil Vickery
Michel Roux Desserts – Michel Roux
101 Best Loved Chocolate Recipes -
Chocolate – Maxine Clark
Divine Heavenly Chocolate Recipes with a Heart
Chocolate – Linda Collister
Willie's Chocolate Factory Cookbook – Willie Harcourt-Cooze
The Golden Book of Chocolate
Hope & Greenwood Life is Sweet
Sweet Things - Annie Rigg
Smoothies – Louise Pickford
The Perfect Marriage: The Art of Matching Food & Sherry Wines From Jerez
Superplonk 2005 – The Top 100 – Malcolm Gluck
A Wine Miscellany – Graham Harding
The Complete Bartender – Robyn M. Feller
The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking & Pastry – Friberg
Leith's Baking Bible – Susan Spaull & Fiona Burrell
Bake – Rachel Allen
Baking with Passion – Lepard/Whittington
Sue Lawrence's Book of Baking – Sue Lawrence
The Baker's Tale – Catherine Brown
Mary Berry's Ultimate Cake Book – Mary Berry
Baking Chez Moi - Dorie Greenspan (New!)
Cake Pops by Bakerella
The Essential Guide to Cake Decorating
Spectacular Cakes – Mich Turner
Fantastic Party Cakes – Mich Turner
Couture Wedding Cakes – Mich Turner
Pretty Party Cakes – Peggy Porschen
Romantic Cakes – Peggy Porschen
Cake Chic – Peggy Porschen
Boutique Baking: Delectable Cakes, Cupcakes and Teatime Treats - Peggy Porschen
Magical Cakes – Debbie Brown
50 Easy Party Cakes – Debbie Brown
Kate's Cake Decorating – Kate Sullivan
Cakes – Julie Duff
Cupcakes – Shelly Kaldunski
The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook – Tarek Malouf (R)
The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days - Tarek Malouf (R)
The Hummingbird Bakery Home Sweet Home - Tarek Malouf
Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery – Martha Swift & Lisa Thomas
The Cupcake Book – Susanna Fee
Cupcake Magic – Kate Shirazi
Cupcakes – Murdoch Books
Mad About Macarons – Jill Colonna
Macarons – Berebgere Abraham
Red Velvet & Chocolate Heartache – Harry Eastwood
The Il Fornaio Baking Book – Franco Galli
The Italian Bakery – Lee Mangione Cirillo
Windmills In My Oven: A Book of Dutch Baking – Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra
Muffin Magic – Susannah Blake
The Cookie & Biscuit Bible – Catherine Atkinson/ Joanna Farrow/ Valerie Barrett
The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea – Helen Simpson
Bread – Eric Treuille & Ursula Ferrigno
The New Family Bread Book – Ursula Ferrigno
The Handmade Loaf – Dan Lepard
Dough:Simple Contemporary Bread – Richard Bertinet
Crust – Richard Bertinet
Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible – Madhur Jaffrey
Madhur Jaffrey's Far Eastern Cookery
Climbing the Mango Trees – Madhur Jaffrey
Madhur Jaffrey Curries – Madhur Jaffrey
Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Nation - Madhur Jaffrey (New!) (Kindle)
India with Passion – Manju Malhi
Curry: Classic & Contemporary – Vivek Singh
The Cinnamon Club Cookbook – Iqbal Wahhab & Vivek Singh
The Cinnamon Club Seafood Cookbook – Vivek Singh
Vij's Elegant & Inspired Indian Cuisine – Vikram Vij & Meeru Dhalwala
Vij's At Home – Relax Honey – Meeru Dhalwala & Vikram Vij
Rasoi: New Indian Kitchen – Vineet Bhatia
Indian Food Made Easy – Anjum Anand
A Year of Cooking Like Mummyji – Vicky Bhogal
Flavour – Vicky Bhogal
Curry: Fragrant dishes from India, Thailand, Malaysia & Indonesia – {various chefs}
Curries & Bugels – Jennifer Brennan
Fish Indian Style – Atul Kochhar
My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional & Modern Parsi Home Cooking – Niloufer Ichaporia King
Fire and Spice: Parsi Cookery – Joyce Westrip
The Road to Vindaloo (Curry Cooks & Curry Books) – David Burnett & Helen Saberi
The Hairy Bikers' Great Curries - Si King & Dave Myers
Rice, Spice and All Things Nice – Reza Mahammad
Stir – Christine Manfield
Indonesian Regional Food & Cookery – Sri Owen
Sri Owen's Indonesian Food – Sri Owen
New Wave Asian – Sri Owen
Thai Food – David Thompson
The Big Book of Thai Curries – Vacharin Bhumichitr
Stylish Thai in Minutes – Vacharin Bhumichitr
Women's Weekly Beginners Thai – WW
Mini C's Great Thai Dishes – Mini C
Exploring Taste and Flavour – Tom Kime
Street Food – Tom Kime
Blue Ginger – Les Huynh
Lemongrass and Lime -
The Wagamama Cookbook – Hugo Arnold
Ken Hom Chinese Cookery – Ken Hom
Chinese Food Made Easy – Ching-He Huang
Ching's Chinese Food in Minutes – Ching-He Huang
Harumi's Japanese Cooking – Harumi Kurihara
Cooking Moroccan – Tess Mallos
Flavours of Morocco – Ghillie Basan
The Moroccan Collection - Hamlyn
Moro The Cookbook – Sam & Sam Clark
Casa Moro The Second Cookbook – Sam & Sam Clark
Moro East – Sam & Sam Clark
The Momo Cookbook – M
Arabesque – Grey & Lucy Malouf
Moorish – Greg & Lucy Malouf
Saha – Greg & Lucy Malouf
Tamarind & Saffron – Claudia Roden
Arabesque – Claudia Roden
Crazy Water Pickled Lemons – Diana Henry
Middle Eastern Cookery – Arta Der Haroutunian
Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume – Silvena Rowe
Simply Lebanese – Ina'am Atalla
Jerusalem: A Cookbook - Sami Tamimi & Yotam Ottolenghi (New!)
Medina Kitchen – Fiona Dunlop
The World in Bite Size – Paul Gayler
Catalan Cuisine – Colman/ Andrews
The Legendary Cuisine of Persia – Margaret Shaida
Persia in Peckham – Sally Butcher
Modern Mexican Flavours – Sandoval
The New Complete Book of Mexican Cooking – Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz
Mexican Kitchen – Rick Bayless
Mexican Cantina Cooking – Jean-Marie Vincken
Mexican Food Made Simple - Thomasina Miers (R)
Cooking with Chimineas – Wendy Sweetser
Leith's Latin American Cookery – Valeria V. Sisti
The Loving Kitchen - LeAnn Rice (R)
Third Thursday Community Potluck Cookbook - Nancy Vienneau (R)
Creole – Babette de Rozieres
Caribbean Food Made Easy with Levi Roots – Levi Roots
Ducasse Flavours of France – Alain Ducasse
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1st ed.) - Julia Child
From Julia Child's Kitchen - Julia Child
Great Chefs of France – Anthony Blake & Quentin Crewe
Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook – Anthony Bourdain
French – Damien Pignolet
La Bonne Cuisine – De Madame E. Saint-Ange
Ripailles – Stephane Reynaud
French Chefs Cooking – Buller
Foolproof French Cookery – Raymond Blanc
Trish's French Kitchen – Trish Deseine
Nobody Does it Better – Trish Deseine
The French Kitchen – Joanne Harris & Fran Warde
Cooking in Provence – Alex Mackay & Peter Knab
French Leave – John Burton Race
The Paris Cookbook - Patricia Wells
At Home in Provence - Patricia Wells
The Flavours of the Riviera – Colman Andrews
The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen – Paula Wolfert
The Mediterranean Kitchen – Joyce Goldstein
The Spanish Kitchen – Clarissa Hyman
1080 Recipes – Simone and Ines Ortega
Tapas Revolution - Omar Allibhoy
Movida – Frank Camorra & Richard Cornish
Saffron & Sunshine – Elisabeth Luard
The Food of Spain & Portugal – Elisabeth Luard
Piri Piri * Starfish – Tessa Kitos
Real Greek Food – Theodore Kyriakou & Charles Campion
Greek Cuisine: The New Classics – Peter Conistis
Vera's Kitchen - Phaidon
Scandinavian Cooking – (Produced for Ikea)
Foods of Sicily & Sardinia and the Smaller Islands – Giuliano Bugialli
Italy: The Vegetarian Table – Julia Della Croce
Umbria – Julia Della Croce
Veneto – Julia Della Croce
Francesco's Kitchen – Francesco Da Mosto
Bringing Italy Home – Ursula Ferrigno
Gennaro's Italian Year – Gennaro Contaldo
Passione: The Italian Cookbook – Gennaro Contaldo
Aaron Cooks Italian – Aaron Craze
Falling Cloudberries – Tessa Kitos
Twelve – Tessa Kitos
Venezia – Tessa Kitos
The Zilli Cookbook – Aldo Zilli
Foolproof Italian Cookery – Aldo Zilli
Fantastico! Modern Italian Food – Gino D'Acampo
Angela Harnett's Cucina – Angela Harnett
Daily Italian – Tobie Puttock
One Pot Italian Cooking – Massimo Capra
Trattoria – Patricia Wells
Marcella Cucina – Marcella Hazan
Eating Up Italy – Matthew Fort
Pasta, Pizza & Calzone – Alice Waters .....
The Pasta Bible – Jeni Wright
Pasta – Eric Treuille & Anna Del Conte
Truly Madly Pasta – Ursula Ferrigno
100 Great Pasta Dishes – Ann & Franco Taruschio
Italy in Small Bites – Carol Field
The Silver Spoon – Phaidon
The Silver Spoon Pasta - Phaidon
The Great Golden Spoon – Food Editore
The Oxford Companion to Italian Food – Gillian Riley
Gastronomy of Italy – Anna Del Conte
Entertaining All Italiana – Anna Del Conte
The Classic Food of Northern Italy – Anna Del Conte
Risotto with Nettles – Anna Del Conte
Made in Italy – Giorgio Locatelli
Tony & Giorgio – Tony Allan & Giorgio Locatelli
Viva Italia! The New Flavours of Italy – Maxine Clark for M&S
Carluccio's Complete Italian Food – Antonio Carluccio
An Invitation to Italian Cooking – Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio's Passion for Pasta - Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio's Italian Feast - Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio's Vegetables - Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio's Italia - Antonio Carluccio
Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian
Italian Slow & Savoury – Joyce Goldstein
The Food of Italy – Claudia Roden
Food From An Italian Garden – Judith Barrett
Alvaro's Mamma Toscana – Alvaro Maccioni
Stephanie Alexander & Maggie Beer's Tuscan Cookbook – Stephanie Alexander & Maggie Beer
The Tuscan Year: Life and Food In An Italian Valley – Elizabeth Romer
Toscana in bocca – Grazietta Butazzi
Beaneaters & bread soup – Lori De Mori & Jason Lowe
Easy Tasty Italian – Laura Santtini
Two Greedy Italians - Antonio Carluccio & Gennaro Contaldo
Two Greedy Italians Eat Italy - Antonio Carluccio & Gennaro Contaldo
Simply Italian - Michela, Emanuela and Romina Chiappa
New Scottish Cookery – Nick Nairn
Island Harvest – Nick Nairn
Scots Cooking – Sue Lawrence
Scotland on a Plate – Ferrier Richardson
Edinburgh on a Plate – Ferrier Richardson
A Touch of the Borders – (The Lavender Touch)
Classic Scots Cookery – Catherine Brown
The Scots Kitchen – F. Marian McNeill
The Scots Cellar – F. Marian McNeill
Maw Broon's Cookbook
Howgate: The Story of a Scottish Inn – Bill Garrad
Food in England – Dorothy Hartley
English Food – Jane Grigson
The New English Kitchen: Changing the way you shop, cook and eat – Rose Prince
The New English Table – Rose Prince
Made in Great Britain - Aiden Byrne
The Best of Modern British Cookery – Sarah Freeman
Great British Menu
Marco Pierre White's Great British Feast – Marco Pierre White
The Hairy Bikers Food Tour of Britain – Si King & Dave Myers
The Complete Rhodes Around Britain – Gary Rhodes
New Classics – Gary Rhodes
Matt Tebbutt Cooks Country – Matt Tebbutt
The Elements of Taste – Gray Kunz & Peter Kaminsky
Taste – Sybil Kapoor
The Big Ready Steady Cookbook
Grill It! Chris Schlesinger & John Willoughby
Blistering Barbecues – Kate Weatherell, Nigel Tunnicliff & Tim Reeves
Pork & Sons – Stephane Reynaud
Terrines – Stephane Reynaud
John Torode's 'Beef' – John Torode
Roasts – Sonia Stevenson
Steak – Sonia Stevenson
Steak – Paul Gayler
Meat – Murdoch Books Test Kitchen
Roasting: A Simple Art - Barbara Kafka
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Beat Connection with White Arrows and Teen Daze @ 7th St Entry
July 15, 2012
Never was a night at the 7th Street so filled with dancing as Sunday, July 15th. Teen Daze and White Arrows opened for Beat Connection, and regardless of their stylistic differences, each group got the crowd moving like there was no tomorrow. Teen Daze bravely took the stage first to an audience that was…less than crowded…but throughout his set of pulsating beats and overarching, soothing synthetic drone, the few who were there silently agreed that those who weren't should regret it. White Arrows followed the warm up to an audience who had thankfully grown in size, as the Dirty Projectors show next door had about come to a close. The band put on a lively performance full of soaring melodies, magically understated vocals, and complete with visuals of hypnotizing projections over the stage. At one point, the bassist even jumped off the stage to dance through the crowd while waving his red, flashing tambourine to the beat. Playing mostly off of their newest and only full length, Dry Land is Not a Myth, each and every song delivered exactly what the audience wanted, including dance-ability. You can witness a White Arrows performance first hand by viewing their in-studio they did with us before the show at www.radiok.org/instudios. Finally, Beat Connection walked on stage and anyone in the room could feel the buzz of excitement in the audience – which had filled out by this time. Whether they were playing songs from their new album, or older tracks, each one was received with wild applause and cheers. The only seemingly worth-while way to describe the music is infectious. It was impossible to tell the difference between someone who had listened to Beat Connection for years and someone who had never heard of them before walking into the room, because every body on the floor was alive with motion. When the band left the stage after their set, chants for more filled the venue. After only a minute or two, they couldn't resist coming back to do a few more, ending with a collaborative jam bringing White Arrows and Teen Daze back on stage. Without a doubt, each of these bands is worth seeing again next time they roll through Minneapolis. But if they keep charming crowds the way they did last night, I'm certain the room will be full from the get-go next time.
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Well, if you fail to see the difference between consensual sex between two dudes and an adult having sex with a minor, i don't think we can do anything for you mate.
I'm trying to understand how this is going to help reduce homophobia. Yeah, I get it- a joke, irony, but still. Were there really no better options?
Wait, was he trying to do that? If so, boy this is a shitty vid. Here i thought he just wanted to have a laugh.
I didn't make a comment about the option for being gay, I made a comment about a sweeping generalization.
That's totally different. That's portraying a person as something they're not. But you see, there's this thing called 'acting'. And, since this is a digital representation of a person NOT INTENDED TO BE THE ACTOR, then I can't see any problem with how it's used. Especially since he's not a very distinctive person. If he was instantly recognisable from the image, and it was used as a slight against him, I'd understand it. But to get upset because you're a motion capture for a possibly gay character?
Jim was actually trying to use just about every porn-novel clique he could in there, it was kind of funny. Most of those metaphor could have been applied to any sexual situation involving a guy with either gender. People assume because I'm anti-gay men, that I'm ignorant, but truthfully due to my reasons for my outlook I'm more familiar with the whole set of cultures than most people in them are. As far as such things go Jim could probably play that speil as proof that he isn't gay since other than the insertsion of some gay innuendo and popular character names there was nothing to do. It's probably a contender for worst gay porno ever created (in jest or not).
That said, when it comes to the numbers, I've looked into this more than most people would be comfortable with. Both as a victim of child molestation (when I was six) myself and things I leaned during Code Adam training, etc... I've spent a lot of time looking into it and my position has waffled between a few axises over the years before settling on gays and lesbians being differant issues, and being solidly anti-gay men (which I won't go into at length here). Your correct that statistics can be made to lie, and I've made that arguement myself on certain kinds of propaganda from other sides, but when it comes to things like overall numbers you can figure out where they tend to fall pretty easily.
The current gay claims that like 20% to 30% of people are homosexual are bunk, even if they make for good liberal propaganda, and they go through a lot of work to make it seem like these numbers could be true. This is one of the reasons why you see so much effort to force the media to include gay characters in dramas and such. To put things into perspective if between 1 out of 5 to 1 out of 3 people on the planet were gay there never would have been issues with oppression that's just too many people to oppress and force into hiding through most of history. With a representitive population that loud there would not be issues with one person being too scared to help others, and simply the intertia of property ownership and business would have altered things. Even 1% would be pushing it because that's 1 out of every 100 people, which would still represent a minority too numberous to keep down this way. To put things into perspectives Jews have typically had tiny populations within the nations they have inhabited, and even being hated, they have wound up representing a substantial force within society that couldn't just be ignored, while forced into hiding at specific times, they always returned in force. The point is 1% is too many for things to have been "forced into the closet through fear". The Nazis made an active effort to hunt down homosexuals, and while they got bunches of them culumatively, the numbers just weren't that big compared to other minorities they were hunting down, despite some attempts nowadys to inflate it.
One out of a thousand or ten thousand is more accurate as a ballpark because that's enough to be forced totally underground by society, even when drawing together in small groups due to similar interests. It's also fairly representitive of the numbers collected during the more effective gay purges that have been attempted. The Nazis aren't the boogie men of humanity because they sucked at hunting their targets down for example.
Now of course, there are points that can be made in response about the amount of homosexuality recorded at specific times, such as during the twilight years of the Roman Empire. However homosexuality *IS* a medical condition tied to chemicals (as is sexual attraction in general) and the human biological system. We don't understand everything about sexuality, but we do know the basics, and why things like castration work (by removing organs that help receive and process chemical signals). Some people can be born reacting to transmissions of their own gender, or perhaps processing chemicals wrong in their brain due to other problems, and others might wind up there due to outside stimulus such as injury, enviroment, diet, etc... not everything is understood perfectly, but it's likely that something about the enviroment of some of these more decadent nations at the time whether it be food, some kind of disease that altered the biology, but didn't persist into modern times, or whatever could have lead to the increase in that condition to a higher point than other periods of history.
The point is there is an effort made to make it LOOK like gays are everywhere, but that's hardly the case. It's not hard to find gay people if you seek them out (given that it's no longer forced underground) but at the same time it's possible to go to pretty large gatherings of people and not have one present at all, simply by the numbers, not due to any active attempt to keep them out.
As far as Mass Effect goes, what you are talking about IS entitlement though. See if your saying that they have all of these othr sexual behaviors (hetero, alien, lesbian) they need to have gay men too, that's entitlement by definition... when you say they HAVE or NEED to be represented. What's more, by that logic your argueing that every sexual deviation NEEDS to be covered if any are going to be. In this case "deviation" is anything other than the norm, which is homosexuality of either flavor. See, to a gay man what he is, is normal, but the same can be said of someone into say scat, extreme bondage, or a furry or whatever. Saying that the gay man should be able to find appropriate content that stimulates him is like saying that there should be an option to have Kelly ride Shepard around his quarters with a riding crop for those submissives out there who can't get it off any other way, or scat play as an option added into the romantic dialogues, or getting Miranda to enter the bedroom in a Girrafe themed fursuit, or whatever.... it never ends, which is why a minority should never be considered entitled to anything, if the writers put something there so be it, if not then just let it go, leave it to them, not political demands.
To be entirely blunt while I appreciate the sexual/adult content in games, I also don't think a general adventure game like this needs to be turned into a sexual carnival, and when you follow this logic through that's what you get because it goes from being a sideline to a major area of development with more thought than it warrents. Everyone has their kinks, I don't think many people want to hear about the nasty little things I'd love to do to Kelly or Liara with a Shepard of either gender BUT I'm not going to go out there insisting that Bioware cater to my hang ups. Likewise if I was playing a game with a romantic subplot and there were no options for me, I'd just ignore it, say if there was only gay men present in a game, I wouldn't sit there and say "noes! we need you to redo the game just for me!" well unless it was grossing me out enough where I'd just not play the game.
That said from what I've seen (though I have yet to play it) all the liberals should probablty forget about Mass Effect and go protest "Bonecraft". I mean it won't happen because it won't get the same platform that Mass Effect gives (and this is all about attention the end, and trying to make gays seem like a bigger deal than they are), but really that represents the issues more than Mass Effect does. Bonecraft is based largely around heterosexual and lesbian action, and from what I've seen the gay men (very stereotypically flaming gay male elves) are the bad guys who you are encouraged to kill as one of the enemy factions. That should be an issue because Sex is the *point* of that game unlike Mass effect. Of course it won't happen, because as I mentioned it's too limited a platform to make a good show, and I'd imagine the guys doing the political QQing realize what idiots it would make them look like for the attempt. :)
Wow Jim, just.... wow. You seem to have a promising career as an erotic (and gay) novelist. Best of luck to you!
That wasn't clever, at all. And this is coming from someone who agree's that people making a big deal about ME3's Male on Male romance options is idiotic.
Thanks, with your totally called for, clever and non-condescending approval I can now live my life to it's fullest! Aces to that!
You should feel as good about yourself as you think you should. You deserve it. :) Really, a class act!
Back on topic, I think a lot of fans have been clamoring about the gayness for no reason. It's purely optional, so I think it's silly.
I just hope the team handles it tastefully unlike in DA2. That game's romanced were like they were written by one of those slash fic gals.
Not if it comes at the expense of a poorer quality game.
As I said before, the man's feeling should be respected, even if you don't agree with them. You obviously think he is over reacting, fine, that's your opinion. But it's not asking to much to respect the mans feelings.
well you seem to have a problem with the whole thing
for fucks sake...its not going to ruin the game...in previous games you could bang aliens now if that didnt ruin the game (which surprise surprise it didnt) then I dont see how shepard having a 30 second scene with another man is going to ruin the game
Err.. I did find it funny. Like what you said, I laughed at. I'm sorry if ti came off the other way.
Which is why this game shouldn't have gotten it, because it IS freaking retconning and retcons are cheap. But if the next Bioware game includes gay options from the beggining of the arc of the character, what would be the problem?
I just think he should chill out, is all I'm saying.
You are a king amongst men, truly.
Thank God for Jim Sterling.
Sorry, hard to convey tone online. I was mostly back-teasing, anyway. :)
I couldn't finish the video. It might've turned me gay.
so you say your "anti-gay"....does that mean you think gays should be "cured" in some way or another?
anyway I dont see why its a big deal, persoanlly I dont see this as "catering to a specifi group" I see it more as allowing more options for shepard..both in charachter and romance options
I have a problem with people making sweeping generalizations.
I realize that is how you feel, but I think the man has a right to have feelings on this matter just like Ms Ainsley would have a right to have feelings about how she was portrait.
Portrayed, surely?
And it's still objectively wrong to destroy a whole series of narrative potential because you didn't want people to think you might fancy a bit of bum.
damn spell check!
...your opinion is that he should chill out, but your using the word "objectively".....what?
No, no, destruction of narrative potential is objectively wrong. That's not an opinion, that's fact, that.
Because it's not a 30 second scene. It's a series of dialogue trees, written scenarios, coding, animations, voice acting and testing, all of which takes up a lot of development time. Development time which could have been spent adding more content or improving on existing content.
Add into that the excuses Bioware will have to write up due to not making any mention of it in the previous 2 games, the possibilities of falsely initiating it just by being friendly ala DA2 and the obvious pandering to knee-jerk accusations of homophobia, it all seems more trouble than it's worth. Does the gay community now feel vindicated because a virtual character can stick it up a guys arse?
Would the Day 1 dlc have been in the main game if Bioware didn't feel they had to put a gay romance in?
I spit Kool-Aid on my screen when he said "dick-sucking lips."
That was... I'm not a mass effect fan, but I'll admit it, I fapped.
Being forced to do something that you find uncomfortable is also wrong.
Also I don't think that the ME series would be seriously affected if there was no gay option.
Fan-Fucking-Tastic! But alas, sadly I lack a gay boner, even in the radiance of our God given Jim Sterling.
On the topic of gay Mass Effect fan works, search for the following artists if you are in the mood to fuck up your mind.
Ah fuck it, go to paheal and kill every last brain cell you have, yah bunch of wankers.
this isnt a major retcon..actually as far as ashley/femshep (or maleshep and kaiden) its not such a huge stretch of logic
So, I don't get it. Is there a movement saying that Mass Effect 3 will turn you gay? Because otherwise I don't see the joke.
Hilarious, and amazing and fitting music. Dat FFIX soundtrack.
I've never liked Jim, but this was just brilliant. I must give credit where credit is due.
You are quite versed in alien sex, I am truly frightened and fascinated.
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High Output LED Headlight Test
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On Monday, October 1, Taylor Swift teased the title song off her forthcoming album Red.
In a quick introduction, Swift said, "I wrote the song about the fact that some things are hard to forget because the emotions involved with them are so intense. And to me, intense emotion is red."
Swift has been keeping busy in advance of her album release and will grace the covers of two magazines in November. In Glamour, she touches on the where, what, why and most importantly who of her songwriting, but proves a tough nut to crack when questioned about reported boyfriend Conor Kennedy.
"I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through."
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Swift also shows a new, more mature side of herself when talking about the public's perception of her, saying, "I think some people think it's just apple pie and sunshine and sprinkles and ponies. Which is just funny. But I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows."
Meanwhile, in a behind the scenes video of her photo shoot for Marie Claire UK, Swift talks about relationships — in relationship to her album.
"My album Red is inspired by all the different tumultuous, crazy, wonderful, awful, exciting, riveting, intense, terrible relationships I've experienced in the last two years. They're not beige. It was either intense love or intense regret, frustration, all that. All of it to me seemed red. So I wrote a song called "Red" that, to me, really mapped out what all those relationships stood for."
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Red is out on October 22.
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Caleb Followill Gossip
Caleb Followill gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Caleb, Lily, and baby bump
Here's a quick post for you fans of Kings of Leon – Caleb Followill and his wife Lily Aldridge were photographed at LAX yesterday. They're expecting their first child. Full Story
Caleb, are you better?
Kings of Leon played the ACC in Toronto last night. The band resumed touring in Vancouver on September 28 and my friend (and trainer) Hayley McGowan was there, said they were amazing and that Caleb sounded amazing, and was so appreciative of the Vancouver audience and seemed to be grateful to be back on stage again. Full Story
Timetable on recovery
Kings of Leon – you heard what happened at their show in Dallas the other night? Caleb Followill was not right. And apparently hasn't been right for a while. Here's what he told the crowd before stumbling offstage: "My voice is completely 100 per cent wrong, I'm sorry... Do you know what? I'm going to drink some beer and I'm going to drink some tequila and I'm going to have a good time, and for the record I'm not drunk. Full Story
Caleb & Macauley Culkin's little brother
Caleb Followill is engaged – Us Weekly reports exclusively. Her name is Lily Aldridge. A model, obviously. They've been together a while. And in exactly four weeks from tomorrow, Kings of Leon will release the highly anticipated Come Around Sundown, their follow-up to the massively successful Only By The Night. Full Story
Kings & Peas & no one cares about Diddy
Victoria's Secret last night in New York. Rockers love models. So of course there was a Followill presence last night at the show as Jared and Caleb showed up on the carpet before taking their front row seats and then headed over to the New Moon afterparty. Jared's face is killing me in front of that dancing woman. Full Story
Kings and pretty boys
Everyone was out last night New York. On the heels of the VMAs and during the thick of NY Fashion Week, the city is a celebrity clusterf-ck, more so than usual. These situations can make for unlikely hook ups. And so at Avenue last night spotted leaving together were Chace Crawford and Kings of Leon. Full Story
Caleb for a very pregnant lady
Just received this adorable email from Sandra in Barrie validating why I never want to have a child. Sandra, however, is about to have her third. "So I'm just a few days away from meeting my 3rd babe...a boy after 2 lovely girls. I'm tired. I'm cranky. I'm achy,...way to pitch motherhood, huh? LOL But lately my spirits have been lifted with any Kings of Leon sightings (Caleb mostly!), Brad Pitt, or the Coop. Full Story
Kings of Leon: LAX
Photographed leaving Los Angeles yesterday – Caleb, Nathan, Jared, Matthew, also known as Kings of Leon. This is the summer they became mainstream and very popular. Now everyone is a KoL expert, everyone knows enough to claim that Because of the Times is better than Only By The Night, Sex On Fire is the new cougar anthem, and the MiniVan Majority can't wait to play it after the kids go to bed. Full Story
Morning Kings
Sigh. They're so big now. Big enough to be on The Today Show. And this is great for them. After so many years of being recognised overseas and totally neglected here, this is so great for them. But Kings of Leon on morning tv feels a little…gross? Maybe it's just me. Am seeing them for the first time in Vancouver August 16th. Full Story
MTV Kings
!!!!!!!!!! It was announced today that Kings of Leon will perform for the first time on MTV at the Movie Awards. For sure Caleb's voice will hold up much better than Chris Martin's last year. Ugh. Do you remember that? Like, quit jumping around if you can't sing and jump at the same time. Full Story
Nothing to say...
But it's rare pap sightings of Caleb Followill and confession: I listen to him every night, I dream about him every night. And the only reason he's not on my Freebie Five is because he just might be a Lifetime List candidate and also... some crushes are so personal and private it's like talking about them violates the imaginary relationship. Full Story


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If we've learned anything about Octobers the last few years, it's that the month tests, stretches and hones every aspect of loyalty fandom.
Therefore, to adequately preview the madness that is the baseball playoffs, we've invited some of our favorite writers for each of the eight playoff teams to write about their teams. These will be running all day today and tomorrow, and we very much hope you enjoy them.
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A.J. Daulerio is a staff writer for Philadelphia magazine and is sometimes refered to as a testicular euphemism on this site.
Oh, hello! It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
Let us begin.
Here is a Phillies team that a good portion of the city (myself included) gave up on thanks to the slow start, the untimely slumps, the injuries, the rickety pitching staff and a manager who appeared to have the baseball IQ of a drugged ape.
This is a team that spent 99 percent of the season in second place.
Even though confidence was at an equally odd, disorienting high last Sunday at Citizens Bank Park, there was still that pesky loser's nag of doubt. This was the fourth week of football season on a Sunday afternoon, and watching baseball this time of the year — at the ballpark, no less — was already strange. But as I pranced into CBP (Yes. A big, queer prance.) with a brown bag of Coors Light (Yes. A big, queer bag of Coors Light), I was still acutely aware that this could blow up. Even though the Marlins were up 5-0 before Jamie Moyer tossed his first pitch, there was still doubt. Tiny doubt, at that point, but it was still there. There could be a one game playoff on Monday and that, although exciting, would be a faith-suck. So it was best to enjoy this moment — this gay-Coors Light-prancing moment — because history suggested this could very well be the best part of the day.
But as the ninth inning rolled around and that big "F" flashed on the scoreboard relaying the news that the Mets had unbelievably, miraculously lost AGAIN, I finally let it go. Somehow, the Phillies didn't miss the Wild Card this year. Somehow, they were division champions. Somehow, for once, everything just got all Johnny Nash-clear and bright.
This is a different kind of joy, mind you. This is one that has always eluded most Philadelphia sports fans and one that is, admittedly, tough to process. This isn't the same joy felt when the Eagles won the NFC Championship in 2004 (they were supposed to, finally), or the Sixers in 2000-01(not highly improbable) or the Flyers regular-season dominance during the Bobby Clarke GM-era (again, familiar, predictable.) This joy isn't even the 1993 Phillies, who held onto the division lead the whole entire year and wrapped it up pretty easily in September. No, this is different. This is a gift. Two and half days after that 6-1 victory (convincing, no less) over the Nationals I am still stunned, trapped in T. Hill-pose, still grasping for logic and familiarity to return: No, that didn't happen. That didn't. No way that just happened.
It did. This city had one ping-pong ball then somehow came away with the number one pick.
So, here they are. The 2007 Philadelphia Phillies, the team to beat waaay back in January, now has home field advantage in the National League Division Series.
Of course, the Padres would have been the opponent of choice, but it's the Rockies. The surging Rockies, with their powerful bats, their devout Christianity and their furious momentum. No, you don't want to play the Rockies, they say, not right now, you don't. They're too tough and they have too much power in that lineup...
Sure. Let's play 'em. Todd Helton can hold as many prayer circles as he wants because , to paraphrase the great Inquirer columnist Bill Lyon, who was also dusted off for the occasion, "Neither God, Jesus Christ, nor a fire-shitting demon from hell wants to fuck with the Phillies right now. "
Okay, maybe he didn't say that. Ever. Close enough.
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I feel the MVVM community has become overzealous like the OO programmers in the 90's - it is a misnomer MVVM is synonymous with no code. From my closed StackOverflow question:
Many times I come across posts here about someone trying to do the equivalent in XAML instead of code behind. Their only reason being they want to keep their code behind 'clean'. Correct me if I am wrong, but is not the case that:
XAML is compiled too - into BAML - then at runtime has to be parsed into code anyway. XAML can potentially have more runtime bugs as they will not be picked up by the compiler at compile time - from incorrect spellings - these bugs are also harder to debug. There already is code behind - like it or not InitializeComponent(); has to be run and the .g.i.cs file it is in contains a bunch of code though it may be hidden. Is it purely psychological? I suspect it is developers who come from a web background and like markup as opposed to code.
EDIT: I don't propose code behind instead of XAML - use both - I prefer to do my binding in XAML too - I am just against making every effort to avoid writing code behind esp in a WPF app - it should be a fusion of both to get the most out of it.
UPDATE: Its not even Microsoft's idea, every example on MSDN shows how you can do it in both.


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in order to confirm whether I understand the relation ship between amps, columbs and electrons I decided to try out the following.
my laptop adapter's label reads 3.34 amps. I assume that:
- amps are the rate of flow of charge (i.e speed of flow measured in coulombs per second) at a point in a circuit.
- that elementary charge (e) is the charge of one electron
- that one coulomb is the sum of the charge given by 1/e electrons
so the number of electrons that will pass through my laptop (or at least the adapter) per second are:
3.34 x (1/e) = 2.084664255E19 electrons
is this correct?
EDIT: having seen the answers I have seen that there's a lot of information missing here.
The point of the circuit I would like to focus on is any cross section of the cable that leads from the adapter to the laptop.
I also assume that the laptop is at full power and drawing the following as labelled on the adapter:
- 19.5 V (since this is out of the adapter I'm assuming DC current)


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Monday, September 26, 2011
Monitor this....
The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it. In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify "key bloggers" and to monitor "billions of conversations" about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs. This is yet another sign that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact. As first reported on Zero Hedge, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a "Request for Proposal" to suppliers who may be interested in participating in the development of a "Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution". In other words, the Federal Reserve wants to develop a highly sophisticated system that will gather everything that you and I say about the Federal Reserve on the Internet and that will analyze what our feelings about the Fed are. Obviously, any "positive" feelings about the Fed would not be a problem. What they really want to do is to gather information on everyone that views the Federal Reserve negatively. It is unclear how they plan to use this information once they have it, but considering how many alternative media sources have been shut down lately, this is obviously a very troubling sign.
You can read this "Request for Proposal" right here. Posted below are some of the key quotes from the document (in bold) with some of my own commentary in between the quotes....
"The intent is to establish a fair and equitable partnership with a market leader who will who gather data from various social media outlets and news sources and provide applicable reporting to FRBNY. This Request for Proposal ("RFP") was created in an effort to support FRBNY's Social Media Listening Platforms initiative."
A system like this is not cheap. Apparently the Federal Reserve Bank of New York believes that gathering all of this information is very important. In recent years, criticism of the Federal Reserve has become very intense, and most of this criticism has been coming from the Internet. It has gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has decided that it had better listen to what is being said and find out who is saying it.
"Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from various social media outlets and news sources. They monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria. They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document."
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York intends to listen in on "billions of conversations" and to actually determine the "sentiment" of those that are participating in those conversations.
Of course it will be those conversations that are "negative" about the Federal Reserve that will be setting off the alarm bells.
"Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers"
Uh oh. So they plan to "identify" key bloggers and influencers?
What exactly do they plan to do once they "identify" them?
"The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms –Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube."
Hopefully you understand this already, but nothing posted on the Internet is ever anonymous. Everything on the Internet is gathered by a vast host of organizations and is used for a wide variety of purposes. Data mining has become a billion dollar industry, and it is only going to keep growing.
You may think that you are "anonymous" when you criticize organizations like the Fed, but the truth is that if you are loud enough they will see it and they will make a record of it.
"The solution must provide real-time monitoring of relevant conversations. It should provide sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) around key conversational topics."
Why do they need to perform "sentiment analysis"?
If someone is identified as being overly "negative" about the Fed, what will they do about it?
"The solution should provide an alerting mechanism that automatically sends out reports or notifications based a predefined trigger."
This sounds very much like the kind of "keyword" intelligence gathering systems that are currently in use by major governments around the globe.
Very, very creepy stuff.
Are you disturbed yet?
For those of us that write about the Federal Reserve a lot, this is very sobering news.
I wonder what the Fed will think about the following articles that I have posted on this site....
*Unelected, Unaccountable, Unrepentant: The Federal Reserve Is Using Your Money To Bail Out European Commercial Banks Once Again
*Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
*19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of Our Economic Problems
*Is Ben Bernanke A Liar, A Lunatic Or Is He Just Completely And Totally Incompetent?
*10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal Reserve Had Never Been Created
What is their "Social Media Monitoring Solution" going to think about those articles?
Unfortunately, this is all part of a very disturbing trend.
Recently, a very creepy website known as "Attack Watch" was launched to gather information on those saying "negative" things about Barack Obama.
Suddenly, everyone seems obsessed with what you and I are saying.
This just shows how the power of the alternative media is growing.
Not only that, but it seems as though the government also wants to gather as much information on all of us as possible.
For example, a new rule is being proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services that would force health insurance companies to submit detailed health care information about all of their customers to the federal government.
Every single day our privacy is being stripped away a little bit more.
But now it is often not just enough for them to know what we are doing and saying. Instead, the "authorities" are increasingly stepping in to silence important voices.
One of the most recent examples of this was when Activistpost was taken down by Google. We are still awaiting word on why this was done.
Sadly, the silencing of Activistpost is far from an isolated incident.
Hordes of YouTube accounts have been shut down for their political viewpoints.
Quite a few very prominent alternative media websites have been censored or attacked because of what they stand for.
So why is this happening? Well, it turns out that the power of the alternative media is growing. According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, 43 percent of Americans say that they get their news on national and international issues from the Internet. Back in 1999, that figure was sitting at just 6 percent.
The American people are sick and tired of getting "canned news", and they are increasingly turning to the Internet in a search for the truth.
As I have written about previously, the mainstream media in this country is overwhelmingly dominated by just 6 very powerful corporations....
Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don't even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans don't really seem to care about who owns the media. But they should. The truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media. The average American watches 153 hours of television a month. In fact, most Americans begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching or listening to something. Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands each year.
The "news" that we get from various mainstream sources seems to always be so similar. It is as if nearly all mainstream news organizations are reading from the same script. The American people know that they are not getting the whole truth and they have been increasingly looking to alternative sources.
The monopoly over the news that the mainstream media once possessed has been broken. The alternative media is now creating some huge problems for organizations that were once very closely protected by the mainstream media.
The American people are starting to wake up and they are starting to get very upset about a lot of the corruption that has been going on in our society.
But it turns out that the "authorities" don't like it too much when Americans try to actually exercise free speech in America today. For example, you can see recent video of female protesters in New York City being penned in by police and then brutally maced right here.
Are you sickened by that?
You should be.
What the "authorities" want is for us to shut up, sit in our homes and act as if nothing wrong is happening.
Meanwhile, they seem determined to watch us more closely than ever.
So are you going to be afraid to talk negatively about the Federal Reserve now that you know that they are going to be watching what you say on the Internet?
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BRIDGEPORT -- The state Supreme Court Monday threw out the conviction of a city man found guilty of sexually assaulting a severely handicapped woman.
In a 4-3 decision, the high court ruled that despite evidence the 26-year-old woman cannot speak and has little body movement, there was no evidence she could not communicate her refusal to have sex with the defendant, Richard Fourtin Jr. As a result of the ruling, Fourtin goes free and cannot be tried for the case again.
Fourtin's lawyer, Senior Assistant Public Defender Nicole Donzello, declined comment on the decision.
In January 2008, the 28-year-old Fourtin was convicted by a jury here of attempted second-degree and fourth-degree sexual assault and sentenced to six years in prison for sexually assaulting the severely handicapped woman in the Success Village housing complex in late 2005.
The woman, now 29, who in court only went by her initials, L.K., has severe cerebral palsy and cannot verbally communicate. She is so physically restricted that she is able to make motions only with her right index finger.
In order for the woman to testify during the trial, a small video camera was placed over her and a tray affixed to her chair. On the tray, the prosecutor placed a board printed with the letters of the alphabet along with the words "yes" and "no" on top.
After each question, the woman's left hand would push her right hand, index finger sticking out, across the board to either spell out a word or answer yes or no. It was an exhausting process that lasted four days.
However, the defense argued that there was evidence the woman could communicate by biting, kicking, screaming and gesturing. They presented testimony at trial from a home health aide who said the woman would kick and groan if she didn't get food she wanted.
The state Appellate Court later ruled she is not physically helpless under the state law in which a jury convicted Fourtin. The state then took an appeal to the Supreme Court.
"We are not persuaded that the victim was either unconscious or so uncommunicative that she was physically incapable of manifesting to the defendant her lack of consent to sexual intercourse at the time of the alleged sexual assault," the high court ruled Monday.
The three dissenting justices accused the majority of acting as a "13th juror," in the case and substituting their opinion for that of the jury.
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