Böcker av David Floyd

From mild jalapeno and pasilla peppers to hazardous habanero and pequin peppers, The Hot Book of Chilies contains dozens of recipes and a gallery of 97 varieties of peppers with useful information on their degree of hotness, health benefits, biology, and history. This is the perfect resource for both timid triers and lovers of heat to learn how to grow, use, cook, and enjoy chili peppers of all ranges of spice. From salsas and hot sauces to jams and chutneys, you'll be able to incorporate your favorite chili peppers into your everyday meals!

From the notable emergence of orphan figures in late eighteenth-century literature, through early- and middle-period Victorian fiction and, as this book argues, well into the fin de siecle, this potent literary type is remarkable for its consistent recurrence and its metamorphosis as a register of cultural conditions. The striking ubiquity of orphans in the literature of these periods encourages inquiry into their metaphoric implications and the manner in which they function as barometers of burgeoning social concerns. The overwhelming majority of criticism focusing on orphans centres particularly on the form as an early- to middle-century convention, primarily found in social and domestic works; in effect, the non-traditional, aberrant, at times Gothic orphan of the fin de siecle has been largely overlooked, if not denied outright. This oversight has given rise to the need for a study of this potent cultural figure as it pertains to preoccupations characteristic of more recent instances. This book examines the noticeable difference between orphans of genre fiction of the fin de siecle and their predecessors in works including first-wave Gothic and the majority of Victorian fiction, and the variance of their symbolic references and cultural implications.