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Touching on virtually every aspect of the food culture, Bitter Harvest is a vibrant example of the emergence of the chef as a political voice to be reckoned with. A food manifesto for the new millennium, it is a must-read for anyone concerned with health, nutrition and the future of our planet. You will never look at your dinner plate in quite the same way again.

These two divergent systems of violence led to two distinct public responses. In the South, widespread rioting quelled public and private questioning of slavery; in the North, the milder, more controlled riots generally encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery movement. Grimsted demonstrates that in these two distinct reactions to mob violence, we can see major origins of the social split that infiltrated politics and political rioting and that ultimately led to the Civil War.

A volume in a series of historical sketches produced by scholars at Lancaster University, this well-crafted small book condenses a great deal of information about a difficult subject: the tumultuous history of Ireland in the 20th century. A time of almost constant war and partisan division, the period from the foundation of the modern Irish state to the recent peace accords in Northern Ireland was marked by shifting allegiances, sometimes unscrupulous leaders, and ideological strife. T.G. Fraser takes a balanced view, noting that the vast majority of Ireland's people, north and south, wished only for the peace and prosperity that began to emerge, albeit very slowly, after Ireland and Great Britain joined the European Community in 1973. The book closes with a useful bibliography for further reading. --Gregory McNamee