The Slow Cooker Cookbook by Audrey Deane

The Slow Cooker Cookbook by Audrey Deane

Longlisted for the National Book Award>

A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture--from Beyonc to>Game of Thrones--to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.

Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Ang lica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother's story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality.

In>Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.

The border between the real and imagined is a speculative space where we can remember, or re-world, what has been lost--and each chapter engages in this essential project of world-building. In one essay, Villarreal examines her own gender performativity through Nirvana and Selena; in another, she offers a radical but crucial racial reading of Jon Snow in>Game of Thrones; and throughout the collection, she explores how fantasy can help us interpret and heal when grief feels insurmountable. She reflects on the moments of her life that are too painful to remember--her difficult adolescence, her role as the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants, her divorce--and finds a way to archive her history and map her future(s) with the hope and joy of fantasy and magical thinking.

Magical/Realism is a wise, tender, and essential collection that carves a path toward a new way of remembering and telling our stories--broadening our understanding of what memoir and cultural criticism can be.

With winter firmly upon us, turn to this book for a variety of time-saving recipes for a slow cookerThere are all sorts of interesting recipes to try out, many of which you wouldn't think you could make using a slow cooker. * Choice Magazine *

Audrey Deane has a BSc.(Hons) Degree in Food Science & Nutrition. Coupled with 12 years' experience in the food retail sector Audrey has acquired many skills ranging from food production and global ingredient procurement to recipe development, food writing and book editing. After maternity leave Audrey started her own freelance food consultancy FOODMATTERS (www.food-matters.co.uk)

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ISBN 13	9781908974129
ISBN 10	1908974125
Title	The Slow Cooker Cookbook
Author	Audrey Deane
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2013-08-15
Number of pages	208
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