![]() Here he shares his sage advice for cooking over charcoal and his must-make recipe for spare ribs. Millers book highlights the fundamental racial interconnectedness that lies at the heart of American life, and the American table. I’ve acknowledged the enormous Black contribution to American barbecue in previous books, of course, and have written about African American pit masters in newspaper articles and blogs. Adrian Miller marshals considerable evidence to show in Black Smoke, his thorough, scholarly, enjoyable study revealing that barbecue is deeply rooted in African-American history and culture. "The happiness I get when people are enjoying my food is one of the best feelings I can imagine," he says. Such a book is the new Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue by Adrian Miller. He'll teach you how to smoke a whole turkey, grill succulent fish (his secret is honey butter), perfectly char a vegetable salad, and then some. In Rodney Scott's World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day ($24.99, ), written with Lolis Eric Elie, he shares life stories and how he learned his craft, plus recipes that go far beyond beef and pork. Miller details the history of barbecue back to its Indigenous. ![]() ![]() His first restaurant, Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ, opened in Charleston in 2017, and he has an outpost in Birmingham, Alabama, as well as another coming in Atlanta. Black Smoke chronicles a rich culinary contribution. ![]() At age 11, he cooked his first hog when his father bartered a deal: Get grilling, and you can go to that basketball game tonight. Courtesy of Penguin Random House Go Inside Rodney Scott's World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Dayįor South Carolina-raised Rodney Scott, barbecue is a calling. ![]()
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![]() She told me her name was Rehanna and she was the Muslim chaplain. Then she started saying prayers in Urdu and reciting verses of the Quran. A nice lady in a headscarf held my hand and said, “Asalaamu alaikum,” which is our traditional Muslim greeting. ![]() The only thing I knew was that Allah had blessed me with a new life. Javid Kayani, deputy medical director of University Hospitals Birmingham who had been in Islamabad when I was shot and was the reason I was now in Birmingham, was there when I was brought around and says he will never forget the look of fear and bewilderment on my face. All sorts of questions flew through my waking brain: Where was I? Who had brought me there? Where were my parents? Was my father alive? I was terrified. To start with, my left eye was very blurry and everyone had two noses and four eyes. I was speaking to them, but no one could hear me because of the tube in my neck. The nurses and doctors were speaking English, though they all seemed to be from different countries. The first thing I thought when I came around was, ‘Thank God I’m not dead.’ But I had no idea where I was. I was thousands of miles away from home with a tube in my neck to help me breathe and unable to speak. ![]() ![]() while unconscious and without my parents. I had been flown from Pakistan to the U.K. ![]() ![]() Shakespeare will go on explaining us in part because he invented us. ![]() They abide beyond the end of the mind's reach we cannot catch up to them. ![]() He knows us better than we do: 'The plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically, cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves. How to understand Shakespeare, whose ability so far exceeds his predecessors and successors, whose genius has defied generations of critics' explanations, whose work is of greater influence in the modern age even than the Bible? This book is a visionary summation of Harold Bloom's reading of Shakespeare and in it he expounds a brilliant and far-reaching critical theory: that Shakespeare was, through his dramatic characters, the inventor of human personality as we have come to understand it. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays. Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know Dan always has something fresh and new to say, so please join us in welcoming Dan Raviv to today's episode of GDA Podcast.ĭan Raviv: Wow. After living in New York City, Tel Aviv, London, and Miami, he is now the Washington correspondent for a global TV news service called i24. Dan's book is "Spies Against Armageddon", which is his new history of the clever and secret ways that Israel protects itself. He's also written a book explaining US Israeli relations and even a book about the Marvel comic books company and how it came back from bankruptcy. Along the way, Dan has also written five books, including a best seller about Israel's security called "Every Spy a Prince". But he's had a long career of good news and bad news. ![]() There's no question his biggest day was 9/11. Gail Davis: You've probably seen and heard Dan Raviv over the years as he's covered the world's biggest events on CBS. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 -“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. ![]() |