Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection

2021-12-07 Matthew Swanson

Author : Matthew Swanson
Release : 2021-12-07
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 77X/5 ( reviews)

Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection write by Matthew Swanson. This book was released on 2021-12-07. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Practice makes perfect, and Ben Yokoyama will settle for nothing less than perfection! A hilarious new Cookie Chronicles adventure that fans of Wimpy Kid or Dog Man will gobble up with gusto. When Ben's fortune cookie tells him that practice makes perfect, he refuses to settle for anything less. He demands better parents, superior hobbies, and a brand-new best friend, who might technically be a superhero. The pursuit of perfection is thrilling until Ben is forced to give up the things he loves most--including baseball, personal integrity, and his dog's enthusiastic kisses. Life lessons from a goldfish and a spine-tingling near-death experience help Ben realize that his flaws are also the keys to his greatest strengths--and that the people and things that make him happiest will always be perfectly imperfect.

The Geography of Bliss

2008-01-03 Eric Weiner

Author : Eric Weiner
Release : 2008-01-03
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)

The Geography of Bliss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geography of Bliss write by Eric Weiner. This book was released on 2008-01-03. The Geography of Bliss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

Chop Suey

2009-07-16 Andrew Coe

Author : Andrew Coe
Release : 2009-07-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 514/5 ( reviews)

Chop Suey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chop Suey write by Andrew Coe. This book was released on 2009-07-16. Chop Suey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time. It's a tale that moves from curiosity to disgust and then desire. From China, Coe's story travels to the American West, where Chinese immigrants drawn by the 1848 Gold Rush struggled against racism and culinary prejudice but still established restaurants and farms and imported an array of Asian ingredients. He traces the Chinese migration to the East Coast, highlighting that crucial moment when New York "Bohemians" discovered Chinese cuisine--and for better or worse, chop suey. Along the way, Coe shows how the peasant food of an obscure part of China came to dominate Chinese-American restaurants; unravels the truth of chop suey's origins; reveals why American Jews fell in love with egg rolls and chow mein; shows how President Nixon's 1972 trip to China opened our palates to a new range of cuisine; and explains why we still can't get dishes like those served in Beijing or Shanghai. The book also explores how American tastes have been shaped by our relationship with the outside world, and how we've relentlessly changed foreign foods to adapt to them our own deep-down conservative culinary preferences. Andrew Coe's Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States is a fascinating tour of America's centuries-long appetite for Chinese food. Always illuminating, often exploding long-held culinary myths, this book opens a new window into defining what is American cuisine.

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