This book is great for the person who LOVES to eat great food and is not afraid to try great tasting and different dishes. The Pound Cake is our families number one ask for dessert, along with the Carrot Cake! The meat dishes are wonderful and very different! Like they say try it you will like it! How true this IS..

Dewdney's "Permugenesis" is both an extension and a reworking of the first two sections of his long poem, "A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario." Phrases from the first two books ("Spring Trances in the Control Emerald Night" and "The Cenozoic Asylum") are repeated, though often in mutated form, and get a chance to mate with and breed all sorts of interesting new sentences. Dewdney's prose poems are dreamlike, often hallucinogenic -- one often feels he's speaking his own language. If John Ashbery and Annie Dillard had a child -- well, I'm not sure that he'd write like Dewdney; but I'm pretty sure the two of them would get along.

This is a must read and good reference book for mortgage professionals, including lenders and practitioners in secondary mortgage business. The book gives excellent review of the development of residential lending in US, of government regulations, major market players, and important product types. Then the book gets to the details of mortgage lending processes and also touches the secondary markets. Readers can definitely gain valuable and practical knowledge on residential lending business after walk through the book.

I love this book. Favorite recipes: Flan (very authentic), Mexican Chicken salad (I make it all the time and my friends love it too).

This is a super introduction to the habit-forming, varied cuisine of New Mexico! The recipes are tested in the Cooking School, so you can be sure that they are workable. Since I have attended three classes at the school, it is with confidence that I recommend this book. The recipe for New Mexican Green Chile and Cabbage Soup with Sausage alone is worth the price! There is a good list of sources for Southwestern ingredients in the back. My only criticism is that I find the layout of the index to be confusing.

Beautiful Photography and top level info make this an excellent guide to begin planning of your trips to the national parks of the southwest.

Good basic text for the beginning woodworker. The projects are simple, the drawings are clear. The author only briefly touches on woodworking techniques, though, so the complete beginner will need to go to some other source. As a professional woodworker, I have used many of the projects in this book as a starting point for my own Southwestern and rustic furniture.

Texans are a proud lot. They pride themselves on their cuisine, which is really not Southwestern and definitely not Southern, as the second largest state has diverse traditions, cultures and cuisine, and some absolutely delicious food.

Here's a wonderful book with glorious recipes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah and New Year's. Beautiful photographs, cooking tips, menu ideas and sidebars quoting selected family traditions give the book a warm, personal touch. It's a book to read and enjoy even if you're not the one doing the cooking.

Best of all, most recipes are easy. You'll learn how to roast, smoke and deep-fry turkey along with recipes for making all the trimmings -- from Texas corn bread dressing to Dorothy's no-fail giblet gravy, even the ubiquitous green bean casserole all the way down to pumpkin, pecan and sweet potato pie.

Griffith's book caters to ethnicities. There's a recipe for Tex-Mex hot tamales and flan for the Latino community as well as potato latkes, sweet noodle kugel and rugelach for the Jewish faith. But you certainly don't have to be Hispanic or Jewish to try these recipes -- all tested and ready for becoming your own traditions, too.

There's even a section on making homemade food gifts, a grand way to say "happy holidays" to friends and relatives with a personal touch. Spicy pecans, Lone Star caviar and Texas trash are among the festive recipes.

Don't miss this book. It's the perfect companion for the holidays.

Having read this book, one finds it was written more as a history book than a fact book. It was an excellent book, mostly for those students of Texas history. It gives details as if you were living in that time frame. Kinda like a time machine back to the 1835-36 period. I would recommend this book only to the serious in mind of Texas history. Otherwise you might find it pretty boring.

This cookbook is one of my stash that I pull out regularly. I have several favorites I make over and over again plus I check it out often for new dishes to try. My sister in-law was one of three women who tested every recipe submitted for the book. The recipes are accurate, fool-proof and delicious. I have given it as a gift several times and always hear back from friends how much they like the book too! Some of my favorite recipes are, "Black Bean Salsa," "Texas Tortilla Soup" and "Southern Sweet Potato Casserole."