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Cooking with grease : stirring the pots in American politics / Donna Brazile.
LIBRA Rare E840.8.B725 A3 2005 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brazile, Donna, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brazile, Donna, 1959-.
- Brazile, Donna.
- Gore, Al, 1948---Friends and associates.
- Gore, Al.
- Gore, Al, 1948-.
- Political consultants--United States--Biography.
- Political consultants.
- Women political consultants.
- African American political consultants.
- Friends and associates.
- United States.
- African American political consultants--Biography.
- Women political consultants--United States--Biography.
- Presidents--United States--Election--2000.
- Presidents.
- United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- New Orleans (La.)--Biography.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Friendship.
- Presidents--Election.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 352 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Shuster paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2005.
- Summary:
- An account of the author's political and personal life describes her childhood in New Orleans and her role as the first African American woman to head a major presidential campaign.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Jean's kitchen: finding the right pot
- Blackened catfish
- Red beans and rice
- Crawfish étouffée
- Garlic grits
- Jambalaya
- The melting pot
- Smothered chicken
- Brown gravy (roux)
- Crabmeat lafitte
- Stuffed po' boys
- Creole shrimp bisque
- Bell peppers
- Dirty rice
- Cochon de lait (Roast suckling pig)
- Oysters bienville
- Café du monde: coffee and beignets
- Epilogue: Electoral Gumbo- new recipe for victory
- Afterword: Pickled okra
- Jean's seafood gumbo.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Elliott Beard."
- "With a new afterword"--Cover.
- "Cover design by David Ter-Avanesyan. Cover photography © Carol T. Powers/The New York Times."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 074325399X
- 9780743253994
- 9781442098817
- 1442098813
- OCLC:
- 271100123
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