Every recipe in this book is very good. Most (almost all) recipes are very easy to make and looks like you worked a long time on them. The Pesto Mold on page 20 is easy to make and everyone will ask for the recipe. The sausage snacks on page 30 are a nice change to meatballs. Pesto tortilla snacks are very easy and great tasting also. The pumpkin chocolate chip muffins and fruity muffins make great gifts around the holidays. The Parmesan Caesar salad is a salad a I make all the time. All the potato dishes are great tasting; the squash casserole is the best I have every had. The sweet potatoes are great (even if you don't like sweet potatoes. I could go on. This cookbook has a nice feature with the children's section. I have used this book so much and bought so many as gifts.

This is a wonderful book. It is full of great recipes that are not only good, but easy to prepare. I highly recommend it!

I have tried many of the recipes in this book and like 99% of them, so do my family and my friends. My favorites include; Frogmore Pickled Shrimp, Swamp Chili, Okra and Tomatoes, Pasta with Shrimp, Lemon and tomoatoes and many more than I should probably list. The book is well laid out (easy to follow), ingredients are easy to find and the serving suggestion are on target. Try this book. You'll like it.

For those who have a connection to the College, this book offers an excellent history of Bowdoin, its founding principles, and challenges overcome. For those who have trouble pronouncing the word Bowdoin (Boe'-din), prepare to be introduced to an institution that is every bit what makes some people swear by the magic of a classical New England liberal arts education

A well written and illustrated history of one of America's better liberal arts colleges. The book is large. The black and white and colot illustrations are very good. The author has also written a very good travel book about Maine. My only criticism is that the book lacks recent photos of the campus and a campus map. The campus is usually rated as one of the 10 most beautiful in America. An earlier book about the architecture of the buildings is out of print. This book is well worth the modest price.

As an avid ex-sailor and amateur historian the Bowdoin has been well known . What is lacking in the book are several ommissions that should be added in the next edition .

Ex. An index would be useful in chasing down facets of information that one might wish to pursue . E.g. "Etah" is mentioned . As I know it is a base in Greenland it is not easy to extract data on this area. {One wonders if the word is a slap at humor-{Backwards it spells "Hate"} Also missing are maps of each major voyage and the time frame that it covered , If the author would get in touch with me I have an historical card and picture of the Bowdoin mailed in 1925 from Canada showing the bowdoin at the three radio operators that manned the Zenith short wave radio as well as the Bowdoin . . The card relates that it was at Etah which is 78 degrees north latitude

Virginia Thorndike has done a nifty job of turning historical fact into a poignant, compelling story, weaving the voices of her sources to create the varied tapestry of Bowdoin's long, distinguished career. She has a gift for story telling, and for including and explaining shipbuilding concepts (such as "treenails") without interrupting the flow. One felt what it was like to be sailing the Labrador on Bowdoin, or to be struggling to restore her when she had fallen on hard times.

I do have one criticism: any book so filled with people, places and events should have at least a rudimentary index. For shame, North Country Press! I read the book over a series of weekends and found myself wanting to refer back now and then. That's a nit, though: this is a good read!

An engaging and readable account of a famous and much-loved traditional sailing vessel, much of it through the accounts of the people directly involved in sailing the Bowdoin, or restoring her later in her long life. The author is particularly good at presenting the people involved and letting their interests and quirks show through, without becoming intrusive (reminiscent of John McPhee). The writing exceeds the usual standard for enthusiast books about boats.

Is Bowdoin Davis intentionally seditious when he writes that Duchamp, "the perceived destroyer" of artistic conventions integrated art historical traditions within his work? This book allows the reader--even one not schooled in 20th-century art history--to access levels of meaning in Duchamp's significant works. While explaining the impact of the artist's visit to a 1912 Munich exhibition of machinery and machine-produced artifacts, Davis connects imagery, language, and technology in surprising ways. The impact of this book goes beyond its immediate subject matter, because the author pricks the reader's preconceived notions of Surrealism and pieces together new ways of seeing art. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of photographs, this volume is as transformative as its subject.

The book chronicles the debates in Victorian science concerning the antiquity of humanity. The work reminded me of another author's work - Martin J.S. Rudwick. I enjoyed the book.