Short Cut Cook or Hideous Absinthe

Short-Cut Cook: Make Simple Meals with Surprisingly Little Effort

Author: Jacques Pepin

Jacques Pépin, America's favorite French chef, makes your cooking easier with 150 timesaving recipes.

• Make crackers by spritzing wonton wrappers with oil and bake until golden.
• Use frozen butternut squash for quick soup.
• Freeze salmon and cream cheese appetizer rollups for easy slicing.
• Prepare cheese straws appetizers with frozen puff pastry.
• Need an elegant entrée in record time?
  Sauté pork cutlets with prunes and steak sauce.
• Spoon a rich-tasting sauce of wine, ketchup, and mustard over grilled steak
• Mix melted chocolate with whipped cream for quick chocolate mousse.
• Fill a store-bought, hollowed-out pound cake with quick food processor lemon buttercream.

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Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle

Author: Jad Adams

Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice for Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired paintings by Degas and Manet, van Gogh and Picasso. It was blamed for conditions ranging from sterility to madness, to French defeats in World War I. The campaign against "the devil in a bottle" resulted in its ban throughout most of Europe. Its reputation for toxicity eventually extinguished the fin-de-siècle's infatuation with absinthe, but not before it had influenced generations of artists on both sides of the channel. This book is a biography of "the green fairy": from its place in the lives of writers and artists who were inspired--and ruined--by it, to its more recent rediscovery by Ernest Hemingway and today’s would-be sophisticates.