Stirring Words: Reflections and Recipes from A Harte Appetite
by Tom Harte
ISBN 978-0-960413-4-4 Southeast Missouri State University Press
$22.00
Which came first, Oreo or Hydrox? Why is Boston Cream Pie called a pie when it's clearly a cake? Who really invented chili? What famous dishes were discovered by accident?
To Tom Harte, for whom food is a consuming passion, questions like these are not half-baked. For 10 years he has been writing culinary reflections on such matters for the Southeast Missourian, the largest newspaper between St. Louis and Memphis. The cream of this reflective crop, covering topics as diverse as Peeps and pate a choux, and their attached recipes are included in this volume.
Some the essays delve into the history of food, like the one about lebkuchen, arguably the oldest cookie in the world. Others, dealing with culinary queries and curiosities, attempt to explain the nomenclature of food or the logic behind common recipe conventions. Still others pay homage to great gourmets like Thomas Jefferson, August Escoffier, or Julia Child or to great ingredients like butter and brown sugar. He also includes a culinary exam and lesson on how to write a recipe.
Whether he's championing the virtues of funnel cake or recounting his experiences judging a national pie contest, Harte is often whimsical, always informative, and never uninteresting. His over 200 carefully selected recipes will be a welcome addition to anyone's files.
The Gold of Cape Girardeau a novel
by Morley Swingle
ISBN 0-9724304-0-7 Southeast Missouri State University Press
$19.95
A treasure trove of gold is found buried next to a skeleton with a bullet hole in its skull. Young lawyer Allison Culbertson faces the toughest courtroom battle of her career to prove the gold belongs to her client. The secrets of the gold are revealed in an unforgettable story that transports the reader from a modern courtroom to the glory days of steamboating on the Mississippi, from young love on the river to the perils of living in a town of split loyalties during the Civil War.
Balancing on a Bootheel: New Voices in Poetry from Southeast
Missouri
editors Jon
Thrower and Susan Swartout
ISBN
978-0-9760413-3-7 Southeast Missouri State University Press
$10.00
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Featuring:
Clay Matthews Shawn McLain Ben Marxer Nicole Trokey Doc Bertram Nicole Stanfield Michael G. Howell Jarret Green Jon Thrower
The poets featured in this collection are young writers from Southeast Missouri, and they represent some of the exciting talent popping up in the area. They are involved in local writing collectives, work with various literary magazines, and have been published in magazines such as Diagram, Dicey Brown, 2River View, Lunarosity, among others.
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Winner of the 2005 Kniffen Book Award and the 2006 Governor's Humanities Book Award
Matthews: The Historic Adventures of a Pioneer Family
by Edward C Matthews, III
ISBN 0-978-0-9760413-0-6 Southeast Missouri State University Press
$19.00
Matthews: The Historic Adventures of a Pioneer Family is the first full-length biography of the Matthews family in Southeast Missouri, which brings to life the individuals whose ambitions and perseverance have made an indelible mark on the region.Spanning more than two hundred years and eight generations, the story of the Matthews family is an account of the birth of a nation, the settlement of the Louisiana Territory, and the subsequent growth and development of Southeast Missouri. Described in detail are events that have taken place in the lives of Matthews family members, capturing their personalities, their public achievements, and their private tragedies.
At the heart of the story is C.D. Matthews. Born a poor farm boy in the 1840s, he risked his life supplying corn and wheat to the South during the Civil War and went on to amass a fortune in banking, lumber, railroads, and land. As his holdings and family grew, so did the region and nation around him, all part of the same expanding story - good times and bad, the wild days, the tame, and the unforseen.
The Complete Book of Kong
by William Trowbridge
ISBN 09724304-5-8 Southeast Missouri State University Press
$14.00
The Complete Book of Kong gathers the poetic wit, woe, and wisdom of both new and favorite Kong poems--from William Trowbridge's previous books, and from numerous literary magazines and anthologies--into a collection that will rattle your cage. This Kong is undiluted and indomitable, ready for anything from power lunches to paparazzi, from Manhattan to Mambo, from Godzilla to God. He is hip and horrendous, always terribly in love with a small screaming blonde, and still bearing the biggest, brightest heart Hollywood has ever broken. Kong treads fortissimo where mortals fear to go and holds forth in these poems with the fresh, no-nonsense voice that makes Trowbridge one of poetry's most cutting-edge bards.