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Introducing Chef Michael Fahey; former certified executive chef and culinary educator, fellow of the American Academy of Chefs; originally from Chicago, Illinois; he has been in the hospitality industry for over 30 years. Chef Michael has had the experiences in most types of foodservice operations as Executive Chef, Food and Beverage Director, General Manager and consultant. Most recently worked in Key West for Key West Cooking School and Small Chef at Large Catering providing culinary education and world class catering at the Hemmingway House, the Little White House (with former White House Chef Walter Schieb) and Sunset Key along with many other private and public venues. Chef Michael has provided his world class cuisine in New York City, Palm Beach, Cincinnati and his home in Western North Carolina. Chef Michael produced a cookbook in 2008, Cooking American Style, Up on Cedar Mountain, featuring a collection of his recipes, poetry and photography. He has worked for former VP Dan Quayle, Governors' in North Carolina, New York and Florida, Donald Trump, Tina Turner, Neil Young, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffet and thousands more. Chef Michael was Chef de Cuisine for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament for 8 years and Executive Chef/F&B Director for private clubs and resort hotels. Chef Fahey established the Blue Reef Hospitality, LLC to provide the Florida Keys catering, Key West Cooking School and hospitality consulting. Blue Reef Catering and Key West Cooking School operated in Key West until 2019. During that time he was F&B Manager/Executive Chef at the Doubletree Grand Key Resort, along with consulting for the Florida Keys Community College to help establish their Culinary Arts program. Chef Michael had bought a cabin in Sapphire, NC while he was F&B Director/Executive Chef at the Cedar Creek Racquet Club in Cashiers, NC a position he held for 5 years prior to relocating to Key West. Ready to get back to his mountains, Chef Michael moved back to North Carolina during the Covid crisis. Always an advocate for education, Chef Michael accepted the position at Brevard College as Executive Chef. Where Chef Michael will pursue helping to solidify the Food Service Program and who knows maybe start some cooking classes to help people learn more about food and cooking.

Introducing Chef Michael Fahey; former certified executive chef and culinary educator, fellow of the American Academy of Chefs; originally from Chicago, Illinois; he has been in the hospitality industry for over 30 years. Chef Michael has had the experiences in most types of foodservice operations as Executive Chef, Food and Beverage Director, General Manager and consultant. Most recently worked in Key West for Key West Cooking School and Small Chef at Large Catering providing culinary education and world class catering at the Hemmingway House, the Little White House (with former White House Chef Walter Schieb) and Sunset Key along with many other private and public venues. Chef Michael has provided his world class cuisine in New York City, Palm Beach, Cincinnati and his home in Western North Carolina. Chef Michael produced a cookbook in 2008, Cooking American Style, Up on Cedar Mountain, featuring a collection of his recipes, poetry and photography. He has worked for former VP Dan Quayle, Governors' in North Carolina, New York and Florida, Donald Trump, Tina Turner, Neil Young, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffet and thousands more. Chef Michael was Chef de Cuisine for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament for 8 years and Executive Chef/F&B Director for private clubs and resort hotels. Chef Fahey established the Blue Reef Hospitality, LLC to provide the Florida Keys catering, Key West Cooking School and hospitality consulting. Blue Reef Catering and Key West Cooking School operated in Key West until 2019. During that time he was F&B Manager/Executive Chef at the Doubletree Grand Key Resort, along with consulting for the Florida Keys Community College to help establish their Culinary Arts program. Chef Michael had bought a cabin in Sapphire, NC while he was F&B Director/Executive Chef at the Cedar Creek Racquet Club in Cashiers, NC a position he held for 5 years prior to relocating to Key West. Ready to get back to his mountains, Chef Michael moved back to North Carolina during the Covid crisis. Always an advocate for education, Chef Michael accepted the position at Brevard College as Executive Chef. Where Chef Michael will pursue helping to solidify the Food Service Program and who knows maybe start some cooking classes to help people learn more about food and cooking.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett philosophy on life and how to live it, “like sitting with Buffett at a beachside bar, listening to him spin tales” (Time). “Buffett took his family on a three-week trek around the Caribbean. . . . His colorful travelogue is interspersed with memoirs of his youth and music career—both of which revolve around his continuing search for the perfect fishing spot.”—USA Today For Parrotheads, armchair adventurers, and anyone who appreciates a good yarn and a hearty laugh, here is the ultimate backstage pass. You’ll read the kind of stories Jimmy usually reserves for his closest friends and you'll see a wonderful, wacky life through the eyes of the man who's lived it. Jimmy takes us from the legendary pirate coves of the Florida Keys to the ruins of ancient Cartegena. Along the way, we hear a tale or two of how he got his start in New Orleans, how he discovered his passion for flying planes, and how he almost died in a watery crash in Nantucket harbor. We follow Jimmy to jungle outposts in Costa Rica and on a meandering trip down the Amazon, through hair-raising negotiations with gun-toting customs officials and a three-year-old aspiring co-pilot. And he is the inimitable Jimmy Buffett through it all.

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.