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June 28, 2024
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 | Barbecue The first indigenous tribes Christopher Columbus encountered on the island he named Hispaniola had developed a unique method for cooking meat over an indirect flame, created using green wood to keep the food (and wood) from burning. Reports indicate that the Spanish referred to this new style of cooking as barbacoa: the original barbecue. As the Spanish explorers who followed Columbus turned their expeditions north, they brought the cooking technique with them. In 1540, close to present-day Tupelo, Mississippi, the Chicksaw tribe, in the presence of explorer Hernando de Soto, cooked a feast of pork over the barbacoa. Eventually, the technique made its way to the colonies, traveling as far north as Virginia. Fire up the grill and check out these titles |
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 | Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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 | Tomi Adeyemi Named one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people, Tomi Adeyemi is a Hugo & Nebula Award-winning Nigerian-American writer, model, & writing teacher based in New York. After graduating from Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she studied West African mythology, religion, & culture in Salvador, Brazil. Her first novel, Children of Blood and Bone, debuted at #1 on The New York Times Bestseller list & remained on the list for over 120 weeks. Tomi's Children of Blood and Bone trilogy is being developed into a feature film with Paramount Pictures. Tomi can be found teaching creative writing at The Writer's Roadmap. In 2020, she was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media, and her website has been named one of the 101 best websites for writers by Writer's Digest. Check out her books here |
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 | Nonfiction to Read This Summer Recommended by the NYT-Memoirs from Anthony Fauci and Anna Marie Tendler, a reappraisal of Harriet Tubman, a history of reality TV from Emily Nussbaum- and plenty more. Check them out here |
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| Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”-Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind
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