Since 1926, Pelican Publishing Company has been committed to publishing books of quality and permanence that enrich the lives of those who read them.
Award-winning singer and songwriter Johnette Downing teams up with Deborah Ousley Kadair for another perfect storybook, which celebrates life in Louisiana and introduces young readers to the spice of Southern culture and food.
RodnReel.com is the largest online fish and game organization in the United States. Its members are a community of avid sportsmen and women who have shared information about camp sites, hunting gear, fishing equipment, and all the tips and tricks of their favorite sport. In this outdoor cookbook, they share the end result: the meal. A Contributor’s Bio introduces readers to the chefs in a personal manner. People have come from all over to enjoy the marshes, woods, and swamplands and to share the recipes they have spent lifetimes perfecting.
America’s top chefs are serving up the perfect recipes for the refined tastes of gourmet dining—and they’re good for you as well. Inside The Chefs’ Healthy Collection are more than 150 tasty recipes from the nation’s top restaurants, all of which are remarkably healthy, containing less than 500 calories each.
Cajun cooking, which originated in South Louisiana’s bayou country, is hot and spicy and relies on easy-to-acquire ingredients. Creole food has a more citified style and developed in the Creole kitchens of New Orleans. Restaurants in Louisiana have developed a style of their own, at times combining Cajun and Creole influences to produce “Louisiana Cooking,” a truly original cuisine that relies on spicy sauces, fresh produce and seafood, and thick gravies. Paperback.
This guide to the Chesapeake Bay crab culture includes dozens of recipes, a history of Bay crabs, and illustrated instructions on buying and cleaning the popular crustacean. As the main ingredient in chowders, pastas, and appetizers, the taste of blue crab is part of life in the Chesapeake Bay area, a region steeped in crab culture. Home to the oldest commercial fishing industries in the country, it provides approximately one-third of the crabs consumed in the United States.
The sensation of throbbing or soreness in the upper body can be misdiagnosed by physicians as well as patients. Internal organs generate a diffused pain that is difficult to localize. When a perceived case of indigestion turns out to be a heart attack, the importance of addressing each painful sensation becomes apparent. Doctors have access to journals and articles explaining the origins and conditions symptomatic of chest pain; however, it is hard for those not in the medical community to decipher this medical jargon. After much encouragement from his own patients, Albert J. Miller saw the need for a layman’s volume. Anyone who has a family history of heart disease, an existing heart condition, or is aging will benefit from this quick reference.
“Stay there until the war is won,” Pres. Franklin Roosevelt said to Chester Nimitz after Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941. Nimitz rose to the challenge, eventually becoming commander in chief for US forces in the Pacific theater. The remarkable life of Chester Nimitz is presented for young readers.
No need to worry about the greenhouse effect, the dangers of nuclear war, the shortage of water, or the ozone layer. The Chicken Little Agenda: Debunking “Experts’” Lies assures us that the sky is not falling! R. G. Williscroft, well prepared to turn the spin doctors upside down, reveals scientific evidence that will expose the rationale of environmental extremists by explaining, clarifying, and providing special insight into world issues through his accessible language and great sense of humor. This is the ePub/eBook version of this title. This is not the print edition.
No need to worry about the greenhouse effect, the dangers of nuclear war, the shortage of water, or the ozone layer. The Chicken Little Agenda: Debunking “Experts’” Lies assures us that the sky is not falling! R. G. Williscroft, well prepared to turn the spin doctors upside down, reveals scientific evidence that will expose the rationale of environmental extremists by explaining, clarifying, and providing special insight into world issues through his accessible language and great sense of humor.
A classic tale meets Southern spice!
A glimpse into the legacy of the “chief of chiefs.”
This is the ePub/eBook version of this title. This is not the print edition.
The South has long been home to unique and enduring tales. Too often, these fables are obscured by the region’s colorful past. It is rare that an author touches on such a tender history and brings forth a collection so rewarding and poignant. James Everett Kibler has captured the essence of Southern writing in this remarkably touching anthology of fables.
Children of Strangers is the powerful and moving novel of love in a community bound by race and class. Famie is a mulatto girl whose ancestors—free blacks—rivaled the white planters in wealth and culture. But on a Louisiana plantation in the 1920s, she is an outcast, rejected by whites because of her black ancestors and unwilling to associate with the sharecroppers who are descendants of slaves.
The folk tales of the Vietnamese culture are extremely important, as they depict the creation of their people and their traditions. Here, some of the favorite tales of the Children of the Dragon are researched and retold for a modern audience with grace and a touch of humor.
In this volume of her poetry, Elaine Carmichael Crump creates delicate word pictures in free verse. Her writing talent is gracefully demonstrated in her moving poem, “Whisper to Me.” Paperback.
Images are expertly imbued into the mind by vivid description. In Chita, Lafcadio Hearn paints life on a marshy, eclectic Gulf Coast island in the middle of the nineteenth century. Chita is a young white girl who is orphaned by a shipwreck and then adopted by a Spanish family on the island. Languages, cultures, and people collide and meld into a nebulous, but distinctive, way of life. Paperback.
Dark, white, bittersweet, milk, Dutch-process, unsweetened—chocolate in all its guises is celebrated in this delicious compilation of recipes by award-winning chef Bev Shaffer. She provides an exhaustive introduction to the basics of chocolate: how to recognize good chocolate, temper chocolate, melt chocolate (using several methods), and even chop chocolate. This cookbook provides a thorough explanation of the language of chocolate that will make even the novice a chocolate expert.
At the J-Bar Nothing Ranch on Christmas Eve, Patricia, Jason and their mother are waiting alone for their father to return from his drive. With an approaching Blizzard, they decide to go ahead and find a tree themselves, a scraggly mesquite branch that is not nearly as pretty as the cedar tree their father usually brings them. Hardcover.