Asian Ice Cream: For You and Your Kids
Author: Arron Liu
In this book, Arron Liu introduces the most popular and delicious ice cream in the Asian countries, such as China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. With over 387 colour photographs to depict every detail procedures of making ice cream, it can certainly help you to clearly understand the process and to make the most delicious ice cream successfully.
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Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most
Author: Gwendolyn Bounds
This is the story of a place, the kind of joint you don't find around much anymore, a spot where people wander in once and return for a lifetime.
Nestled along the banks of the Hudson River directly across from the United States Military Academy at West Point sits the rural town of Garrison, New York, home to Guinan's -- a legendary Irish drinking hole and country store. While searching for a place to live and a temporary haven following the September 11th attacks, Manhattan journalist Wendy Bounds was delivered to Guinan's doorstep by a friend. And a visit that began with one beer turned into a life-changing encounter.
Captivated by the bar's charismatic but ailing owner, Bounds uprooted herself and moved to tiny Garrison. There she became one of the rare female regulars at the old pub and was quickly swept up by its motley characters and charms. What follows is a riveting journey as her fate, and that of Guinan's, unfolds. Told with sensitivity, humor and an unflinching eye, Little Chapel on the River is a love story about a place -- and the people who bring it to life.
Along Bounds's journey you'll meet the people of Guinan's: Jim Guinan himself, the stubborn high priest of this little chapel who spins rich tales of the town's robber barons, castles and mythological swans that feed at his front door; his grown children, whose duty to their father, and the town, have kept Guinan's up and running against immeasurable odds; Fitz, a tough-talking Vietnam vet who eventually takes the author under his wing; Tom Endres, who first rowed to the bar illegally as a cadet and who returned as a full-fledged colonel in the U.S Army; Walter, the kindhearted and neurotic next-door neighbor who torches dandelions with his lighter; and Lou-Lou, the overweight doe-eyed hound and the most faithful four-legged parishioner at the pub.
This beautifully written, deeply personal and brilliantly insightful book is as much about remembering to value the past as it is about learning to seize the present. Filled with stories of joy and sorrow, of universal family struggles with loyalty, love, betrayal and redemption, this work ultimately brims with hope as Bounds expertly captures a nostalgic slice of quintessential American life. And while chronicling the pub's fight to endure and her own search for a simpler way of life, she shares how and why the spirit moves those who come to worship in this little chapel on the river.
Booklist
"Bounds captures the warmth of the place and the rootedness it [Guinan's] symbolizes."
Publishers Weekly
Bounds and her partner lived across the street from the World Trade Center; they both wrote for the Wall Street Journal and were getting ready to go to work when the planes struck the towers on 9/11. They made their way to friends uptown, and in the following months, they parked themselves in a variety of temporary accommodations, as their building was uninhabitable. One friend brought them to Guinan's, an old Irish bar in the small, upper Hudson River town of Garrison, N.Y.-and Bounds soon felt at home. She gradually let herself become enmeshed in the Guinan family saga, as well as in the intertwined tales of the regular customers. Before long, "the invisible red velvet rope" lifted, and she was helping out at the bar and setting up shop when the aging owner was hospitalized for diabetes-related surgery, buying a ramshackle home nearby and generally becoming included in the Guinan extended family. Bounds's story isn't flashy or dramatic; it's as low-key as her new, non-Manhattan friends. It modestly reminds us that in this uncertain world, when you come to a place that speaks to you, you should hold it dear and treasure it while it lasts. Photos. Agent, David Black. (July) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
In the era of big box stores, chain restaurants, and the proliferation of cloned communities, this debut about a family-owned pub in Garrison, NY, on the Hudson River will be perceived as timely and meaningful. Bounds, a Wall Street Journal columnist, found sanctuary at Guinan's after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which forced her to evacuate her apartment in downtown Manhattan. Besides victuals, newspapers, early- morning coffee, and late-night beers, the pub served up conversation, free music, and soothing routine. Two decades ago, Guinan's would have been both ordinary and unique in the way that all small-town emporiums were ordinary and unique, but probably not the subject of a marketable book. Today, its mere existence renders it extraordinary. Bounds sketches the pub's regulars with humorous, compassionate strokes and questions-in light of this place so slow to change and stubborn in its values-whether the fast track to widespread homogenization is really the route we should be traveling. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 3/15/05.]-Maria Kochis, California State Univ., Sacramento Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
What People Are Saying
Dennis Smith
"Compelling . . . I could not put it down."
—author, Report from Engine Co. 82, A Song for Mary and Report from Ground Zero
Frank Gannon
"Reading Wendy Bounds's very fine book is much like a delightful night spent visiting a pub in Ireland."
—author, Mid-Life Irish
Billy Collins
"Gwendolyn Bounds has perfectly captured the sounds, flavors--indeed, the soul--of a quickly disappearing kind of small town life."
—Poet Laureate, author of Picnic, Lightning
Nancy Cobb
"A seamless, shining tale."
—author of In Lieu of Flowers
Malachy McCourt
"Set aside a huge chunk of time to read this book as putting it down would cause heartache."
—author of A Monk Swimming
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