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While slick television cooking shows and high-profile celebrity cookbooks are all the rage these days, The Church Supper Cookbook takes us back to a simpler time when potluck suppers would inspire each guest to bring their specialty dish to the table, whether it was that "fabulous lemon pie you make" or lasagna or ham loaf. We love these types of dishes because they remind us of childhood, of home, of "the good old days," but sadly, it seems, we can never quite duplicate them at home using a standard cookbook. The Church Supper Cookbook sets out to rectify that situation by presenting 375 of those homespun favorites, collected from parish members of churches across the country.
Filled with quiches and casseroles, pasta salads and potato salads, hearty breads and upside-down cakes, this book will surely transport readers to the potluck dinners of their past. These sorts of dishes--such as Spaghetti Pie, Chicken Sour Cream Bake, and cheesy Spinach Squares--are treasured not only because they are tasty, but also because they're easy to prepare, inexpensive, and hearty enough to feed a crowd. As such, the recipes, as you might expect, rely heavily on canned goods, pre-made sauces and frozen vegetables, and sour cream, bacon, cheese, and butter for flavor. So, if you're on a diet or prefer your meals to be made with fresh ingredients or from scratch, steer clear of this cookbook. But if you are drawn to kitschy Americana, or yearn for Pineapple Upside-Down Ham Loaf, The Church Supper Cookbook certainly fits the bill. --Robin Donovan
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Some of the best food in any community can be found at a local church supper or potluck. But the recipes are often closely guarded secrets. Not anymore! In The Church Supper Cookbook, America's best cooks unveil more than 375 of their most requested recipes. These are treasures that have been passed down from generation to generation, picking up the unique touch of each family member who has made them. Each dish has been a proven winner again and again at countless family gatherings, church functions, and community get-togethers. First published in 1980 and carefully revised and updated for the contemporary home cook in 2001, this comprehensive volume now appears in a very affordable paperback edition. And with the extraordinary range of recipes-from classics like Coq au Vin, Quiche Lorraine, Hot German Potato Salad, and Red Velvet Cake to one-of-a-kind favorites like Shrimp and Blue Cheese Casserole, Lazy Man's Stew, Salmon Mousse with Cucumber Sauce, and Scripture Cake-you'll never be at a loss for a satisfying family meal, a knockout bake sale recipe, or an easy covered dish to please the crowd.
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A More Sophisticated Church Fund Raising Cookbook.......2003-12-26
There are two dangers in evaluating this book. One can overestimate it's value by focusing on the very reasonable price for an advertised 375 recipes, and buy it's patter that these recipes include valuable secrets which will produce better results than what, a New York celebrity chef, probably. Alternately, one can look down one's nose at the source of the recipes and claim that there is little value in these homespun recipes.
There are elements of truth in to both positions, but both positions are guilty of not appreciating the audience for which the book was written. The book is a grown-up and slightly citified version of recipes assembled by church groups into a book to be sold to make money for the parish or womens group or some other worthy civic cause. Almost all recipes will produce tasty results without resorting to any hard to find or hard to make ingredient. Few, if any, will ask you to skin a sweet pepper or bake a fillet in paper. Even better, the book contains homespun versions of classic cuisine such as Cassoulet and Coq au Vin and is not shy about asking you to use a few cups of wine in some dishes. This is a perfect cookbook for rural New Hampshire. It does not even bother me that most of the recipes came from the same part of the country. The book may have been better with a better representation of southern, New Orleans, or southwest cuisine, but I don't think the book's audience will really miss it.
What I am afraid the book's audience will miss is an original culinary experience. I just don't see the point of making Coq au Vin with boneless chicken breasts as this book's recipe suggests. You can get a reasonable dish with a winey taste in mushrooms and white meat, but that isn't Coq au Vin. To get real Coq au Vin, you must go to Julia Child or David Boulud. You would even find something more authentic and worthy of the name in a Martha Stewart volume.
Another problem with this book is that there is a lot of inconsistency in the style of recipe writing, even with the single experienced editor.
I think this book would have been a lot better if it had left out all of it's baking recipes. The recipe for pastry dough will probably work, but it totally ignores the wisdom of every good pastry chef I've seen of the Food Network regarding using cold ingredients, handling the dough sparingly, and having a delicate touch with the butter. Good cooking often requires finesse. Good baking always requires finesse. I especially dislike the statement at the beginning of the book which recommends substituting butter for margerine. This substitution can be disasterous in some cases such as cookie baking, and somewhat grim in many other cases, especially if you happen to hit upon a margerine with the warning against cooking in small print.
The book has a patina of erudition in it's naming classic dishes such as Paella Valenciana, but a native of Valencia would probably get heartburn over the statement that Paella Valenciana is made in all sorts of different ways. It is true than hundreds of culinary writers have said this about `paella', but not about `Paella Valenciana'. A sample of false erudition there.
This is a good book for what it does. I would recommend it as a second cookbook, as long as the first cookbook was `The Joy of Cooking' or `James Beard's American Cookery' or some other well regarded basic cookbook which gives proper attention to the subtlties. For a more sophisticated first cookbook, the old standard `Mastering the Art of French Cooking' is as good as it was 40 years ago.
Disappointing.......2003-11-04
The subtitle is very misleading.Having lived in New England, I love it as much as anyone, but to say the recipes come from across the country is a misrepresentation. Ninety-five percent of the recipes are from NH,CT,and NY. There are a couple from CA and one from another state, but that is it. The recipes are fine, but certainly not what I expected.
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Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions.
Challenging the image of the migrants as helpless and poor, Gregory shows how both black and white southerners used their new surroundings to become agents of change. Combining personal stories with cultural, political, and demographic analysis, he argues that the migrants helped create both the modern civil rights movement and modern conservatism. They spurred changes in American religion, notably modern evangelical Protestantism, and in popular culture, including the development of blues, jazz, and country music.
In a sweeping account that pioneers new understandings of the impact of mass migrations, Gregory recasts the history of twentieth-century America. He demonstrates that the southern diaspora was crucial to transformations in the relationship between American regions, in the politics of race and class, and in the roles of religion, the media, and culture.
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Excellent look in population shift.......2007-07-27
This was required reading for a graduate course in American history.
In his book The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, author James N. Gregory proceeds thematically, rather than chronologically. His intent is to use a stereoscopic method (stereoscopes set two similar but different images next to each other, thus tricking the eyes and the brain into fusing the images in a way that makes them three dimensional) in order to achieve a third dimension (page 8): not only to examine the great internal movements of black and white peoples from the American South to the American North and West, but also to examine the social, cultural, economic, and political impact that this massive internal movement of peoples had on the history of America during the twentieth century.
Gregory's The Southern Diaspora is divided into nine chapters: Chapter 1, "A Century of Migration," is an overview of the of the migration cycles and the changing economics and demography of these migrations over the course of the twentieth century, concluding that the Southern Diaspora was numerically larger than previous scholars have understood; Chapter 2, "Migration Stories," surveys the public meanings of the two sets of exoduses and highlights the unique role that media institutions and social scientists played in shaping the expectations and interactions of southerners on the move; Chapter 3, "Success and Failure," answers questions about the economic experience of black and white southerners, dismantling the maladjustment paradigm that had been so prominent in previous scholarship while also showing the critical differences in the opportunity structure facing black and white southern migrants; Chapter 4,
"The Black Metropolis," examines the communities that African Americans built in the major cities, resurrecting the label "Black Metropolis" and mapping the new and powerful cultural apparatus of those communities; Chapter 5, "Uptown and Beyond," examines the very different community formations of white southerners who spread out through suburbs and rural areas as well as big cities, struggled with confusing issues of social identity, and developed cultural institutions of historical import (e.g., diaspora country music and the white diaspora literary community would help to reshape understandings of both region and race); Chapter 6. "Gospel Highways," explores the diaspora's impact on American religion as both racial groups built Baptist and Pentecostal churches and helped to revitalize and spread evangelical Protestantism, with important political as well as religious implications for America; Chapter 7, "Leveraging Civil Rights," develops the issue of black political influence, demonstrating how important geography was to the initial phases of what ultimately became the civil rights movement;
Chapter 8, "Re-figuring Conservatism," brings the white migrants into the story of race, class, and regional transformations, exploring contributions to white working class conservatism on the one hand, and to new formulations of white liberalism on the other. Chapter 9, "Great
Migrations," brings te diaspora to a close in the 1970s and 1980s, and summarized some of Gregory's major findings (pages 8 and 9).
One important point made by Gregory is that for as long as there was something called the American South, southerners in significant numbers had been leaving; the South itself expanded through migration as white southerners in the early 1800s carved out new states for cotton and
slavery, while others moved to places north and west that today are understood to be regionally separate from the South. White out-migration was especially heavy in the two decades after the Civil War, with many leaving for farming opportunities and others settling in the North's big
cities-New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago-where the nation's commerce was concentrated. By the end of the nineteenth century, there were more than 1 million southern-born whites living outside their birth region. Census takers also counted more than 335,000 southern born African Americans living in the North and West in 1900 (page 12).
African Americans had left the South in the nineteenth century for different reasons and in different directions. Before the Civil War, some had been taken west by slaveholders who dared to move their human property into places like California and Kansas; others had escaped
northward, typically to Ohio, upstate New York, Massachusetts, and Canada. There was also something of an exodus of free black people from the South after 1830, with many of them settling in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. Emancipation increased out-migration among black southerners, much of it directed toward northern cities (New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago were key destinations for freed people from Virginia and Maryland after the Civil War), but rural destinations were also and equally important: black southern migration, frequently organized by "colonization" or "emigration" societies, moved north into Indiana and west into Kansas from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee in the 1870s and 1880s (pages 12 and 13).
The central thesis of Gregory's Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, is threefold. First, the size of the black and white southern diaspora was much more substantial than previously reported: over the course of the
twentieth century, close to 8 million black southerners, nearly 20 million white southerners, and more than 1 million southern-born Latinos participated in the diaspora (page 14). Second, the twentieth century southern diaspora can be divided into two periods: the first phase of migration . starts during the initial decade of the century, grows in the second decade when at least 1.3 million southerners leave home, reaches a peak in the 1920s with 2 million new black and white southern migrants, then tapers off in the 1930s; a much bigger second wave begins with World
War II when more than 4 million southerners move north or west, grows even larger in the 1950s when at least 4.3 million leave the South, remains near that level through the 1960s and 1970s, and then declines in the 1980s and 1990s (pages 14 and 15). Third, white southern out-migrants
outnumbered black southern out-migrants during every decade of the twentieth century, and usually by a large margin. But the southern black exodus had the more important impact: blacks were leaving the South at much higher rates than whites, and many were going to geographic
regions that had known little racial diversity (pages 15 and 17). The largest number of black migrants lived in the Great Lakes states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin); they were also the key destination for white southerners. The Middle Atlantic states (New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey) were second as a destination for African Americans, but-with the exception of New York City-much less popular with whites. The Pacific states was the third important area of settlement for both groups, especially California: by 1970, more than 1.6
million white and 571,000 black southerners lived in that state. California was also the chief destination for Tejanos and other southern-born Latinos, 213,000 of whom had settled there by 1970; Hispanic southerners had also migrated to Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana (pages 18 and 19).
Gregory challenges the image that southern migrants in the north and west were merely helpless and poor. While they faced many cultural, social, and economic challenges from within and without their culture, these migrants also had a substantial support system of family relations, organizations, and institutions that enabled them not just to survive, but even to thrive and succeed in differing environments despite tremendous odds. Financially, the majority of southern migrants did much better than their contemporaries who chose to remain in the South.
Whites and blacks left the South for related but somewhat different reasons, and found very different opportunities in the North and West. Those differences turned on the central issue of race, and from that flowed other significant differences derived from geography, class dynamics, and community formation patterns. Racial privilege granted southern white migrants significant economic and spatial advantages (i.e., the choice of where, how, and with whom they settled) over their black counterparts; that advantage was used to choose the best housing they could afford in the least dense neighborhoods, often in outlying, rather than central, urban areas. The fact that black and white southerners settled in different sorts of places, in different
concentrations would have implications not just on southern individual and group experiences, but on the North, the West, and the nation as a whole. Despite the fact that white migrants had greater numbers, black migrants gained capacities to influence cultural and political institutions that would ultimately dictate profound historical changes; The fact that whites chose dispersion over concentration, and opted for places that initially would not be centers of political and cultural power, worked against the construction of physically defined southern white communities. The loyalties and activities of elites and middle-class migrants became a key resource for African American communities, while white, middle class expatriates kept their distance from working class migrants, limiting the possibilities for group institution building and political influence. White southern migrants were influential in the promotion of evangelical churches, the development and spread of country music, and in the particular brand of racial conservatism and white working class politics that benefited from southern white symbolism.
African American influence was more comprehensive and consequential: the building of communities in the major cities in America during a period when those cities monopolized important forms of power, especially in media (publishing houses, newspapers, magazines, record companies, theatre, and film), inspired African American literature and artistic endeavors in a myriad of forms and in a slow, but steady and meaningful acknowledgement of its worth. Politically, the particular arrangement of parties, unions, and municipal and federal governments in northern metropolises, especially during the "long New Deal," gave black voters and activists opportunities to leverage governmental power. By working with allies that were available only in those places, by finding balance-of-power openings that appeared as urban regimes reorganized (and as the northern democratic Party tried to consolidate its hold on federal power)-while using tactics that were safe and effective only in those settings-the seams of power were loosened in a governmental system that previously had rarely responded to the demands of socially despised minorities (pages 325-327). Finally, regional reconstruction was the other
important legacy of the Southern Diaspora. Over time, black and white migrants southernized aspects of the regions they settled by introducing tastes, practices, and institutions-including food, music, religion, accents, and political styles-that moderated the differences between the
South and the rest of the United States (page 327).
In my opinion, Gregory has successfully presented a thematic history of the black and white disapora from the American South to points North and West. The only weakness, as I see it, is that this examination could not have been made in a more chronological, and less thematic fashion. Or given the daunting nature of his effort, if the had been more satisfied to provide a more intensive examination of only one or only several of his intended themes, the work would not give this reader a sense of being "all over the place." Nevertheless, Gregory has contributed a
necessary work of revisionist history of scholastic depth and eminent readability.
Recommended reading for anyone interested in American history.
harder experiences for blacks than for whites.......2007-06-24
By now, several historians have looked at the experiences in the massive migrations of Negroes from the American South to its northern cities from 1900 to the post World War 2 era. But of course, many poor southern whites also voted with their feet and moved north. The unifying theme Gregory has chosen is to look at both migrations. And to compare and contrast the experiences of both groups.
For studying whites, he goes beyond looking at the so-called hillbilly ghettos that sprang up in various northern cities. In the popular (white northern) imagination of the times, these were considered well nigh akin to the often neighbouring black ghettos. Gregory points out that most southern whites had quite different experiences, though they were still invariably stereotyped by white northerners.
We see examples of blacks and whites struggling to improve themselves. Often politically. While there were indeed many common facets, what persistently emerges is that blacks had to work harder to overcome obstacles.
Required for class.......2007-02-10
This book was required reading by a professor. His superior intellect decided this was a good book so I am compelled to agree... even if I didn't read it.
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Now more than ever, vacationing Americans are choosing to stay right here in the U.S., to look inward at our own rich national heritage. Thus, there has never been a more appropriate time for this sweeping, gorgeously photographed look at rural America's most enchanting houses of worship. "The country church tells us who we are. In doing so, it provides a sense of security, especially in times of crisis," says Pulitzer Prize nominee William Morgan in his introduction.
The outcome of an inspired two-year cross-country road journey of writer and photographer, American Country Churches touches the heart of America-and many of its religious denominations-as it presents 250 moving, all-new color images of more than 40 of our nation's most uplifting, soul-soothing spaces. The introductory text places the churches within the greater context of American history, while short essays on each church highlight its particular role in the story of its region, architects, and worshippers. As this glorious volume proves, no matter which state one calls home, there are always nearby places to go to find solace. AUTHOR BIO: William Morgan has taught at Princeton University, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Louisville. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, and he is the author of The Abrams Guide to American House Styles. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Radek Kurzaj is a travel and architecture photographer based in Sczecin, Poland, and New York City. His books include Abrams' Living Large in Small Spaces, Colonial Houses: The Historic Homes of Williamsburg, and The Abrams Guide to American House Styles.
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Country Churches.......2007-05-13
I have ordered several similar books and this is the best of the lot. Great pictures. Great price. Enjoyable. I keep going back for reference.
buy, read and enjoy........2006-02-23
this book was a present for my step-mother,residing in an assisted living facility in brunswick,maine. she is a wonderfully religious woman and really enjoyed this book. congratulations to the authors.and thanks to amazon for making it available.
Beautiful Book.......2004-10-01
This is a beautiful book. Mr. Morgan made great choices of which churches to photograph. The table of contents uses thumbnail images so you can quickly find the churches that interest you. The photography is superb. Altogether a book that is a joy to possess.
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White Soul is an examination of the social, political, and religious foundations that bring rural and urban working-class white people and country music together as a dominant force in 20th century American music. An elitism of the upper class is named, e
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STUNNING SANCTUARIES.......2003-03-15
Country Churches moves beyond the boundaries of just being a book profiling church architecture. In this wonderful tome, Raymond Zirblis captures the beauty and simplicity of country churches in the rural communities of Europe and the Americas. Unlike their larger counterparts in the city, these churches evoke a powerful sense of spirituality and grandeur in their simplicity.
In order to appreciate the aesthetics of these churches, the author gives us a brief history of church architecture's early development. From there we are taken on a panaromic tour of how these different architectural styles translated themselves into rural settings. What you see is simply stunning.
The photographs of the churches are fantastic. You get the feel of the sacredness and warmth of these varied sanctuaries that are out in the middle of nowhere. In Latin America you see the impact of European church styles melded with the indigenous culture to form an architectural synthesis of spirituality. I found the pictures very moving and powerful in their display of these house of worship. As we go from country to country, the author explains the historical context which impacted upon the building of these edifices.
This is an excellent book for those who are curious about church architectural in general and country churches in particular. If you are a photography buff who specializes in taking pictures of churches, you will appreciate the beauty displayed in each photo. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it for your spiritual enjoyment.
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Mary Meade's Country Cookbook: Traditional American Cooking
Ruth Ellen Church
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Cumfort Cooking at It's Best!.......2002-10-30
The recipes are easy for the novice and a great starting place for the advanced cook. Chicken, Fish, Meats, Vegetables, Deserts, Breads, you name it. No exotic or hard to find ingediants and written in plain english. If you are a snob avoid this book. On second thought, try it, you may just find out that food doesn't have to be snooty to be good. Just plain, delicious, comfort food (without the PBJ sandwich). Food like grandma used to make!
Mary Meade's Country Cookbook: Traditional American Cooking.......2001-01-10
This cookbook is great in the sense that the meals are easy to prepare and you don't have to buy a lot of "strange" or "different" ingredients to make the recipes. What one needs to realize is that if you like this cookbook and want to buy others from her, the old, out of print cookbook titled "Mary Meade's Country Cook Book" is the one and same, page for page, recipe for recipe.
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