Italian Shortcut

A perfect cookbook for anyone who just doesn't have time to cook No time to cook? No worries! You can finally skip the drive-through and put home-cooked meals on the table any night of the week! The key is saving time not just in the kitchen, but during that time-consuming trip to the supermarket. "Supermarket Shortcuts" will get you in and out of the supermarket quickly, efficiently, and cheaply with strategies for streamlining your shopping, then preparing hundreds of delicious, quick meals, almost from scratch. Filled with 370 recipes made easy and speedy with convenient prepackaged foods and pre-set shopping lists, "Supermarket Shortcuts" includes A variety of home-style favorites and new flavors, like Cheesy Meatball Stew, Stir-fry Chicken and Peppers, and Spiked Pot Roast and Potato SimmerWays to make meal preparation faster and easier-saving you not only time in the kitchen, but also time (and money!) at the supermarketA "Shortcuts to Supper" chapter presents 50 great-tasting convenience products followed by five recipes for each (250 recipes in all!), all ready with a minimum of time and effort "1 Grocery Bag, 5 ways" chapter presents a shopping list with 10 ingredients and lets you decide which of five recipes you want to fixA make-ahead chapter perfect for removing stress from dinnertimeA "Workaday Dinners" chapter with family-style recipes ready in 30 minutes or less, with short ingredients lists (10 or fewer ingredients) featuring easy-to-find convenience products and/or fresh ingredients that require minimal preparation With 24 pages of beautiful color photos, "Supermarket Shortcuts "has the easy, quick recipes you need to make dinnertime-and shopping for dinner-a snap.

30 Days to Great Italian is a simple and fun course that will enhance your language skills in just weeks! Straightforward and effective teaching methods help students understand and speak Italian. Using a simple approach to grammar, 30 Days to Great Italian teaches what's really useful without nit-picking or employing technical jargon. The package includes a book and an audio CD, maps, cultural tips, and links to internet sites.

This book explains Italy s endless political instability and its historical, cultural and economic roots. It also illustrates why, even after the creation of the Italian state, Italy was never really unified. Piero Gobetti described fascism once as the "autobiography" of the Italian nation. This book explains why today it is possible to describe "berlusconism" - a cultural, political and social phenomenon in Italy- as the most recent version of this country s autobiography.

From neorealism's resolve to Berlusconian revisionist melodramas, this book examines cinema's role in constructing memories of Fascist Italy. Italian cinema has both reflected and shaped popular perceptions of Fascism, reinforcing or challenging stereotypes, remembering selectively and silently forgetting the most shameful pages of Italy's history.

Beloved television host and cookbook author David Venable is back with an eagerly anticipated collection of recipes, each with a full-color photo, that save on time but not on flavor. Who says everything has to be made from scratch? Here you'll find lots of time-saving supermarket shortcuts, including new ways to use cake mixes, flatbreads, bottled sauces, seasoning packets and more. Plus you'll find clever ideas for using an air fryer, pressure cooker, slow cooker, blender and other common kitchen appliances for faster and easier cooking for everything from small bites and brunch, to soups, salads, entrees, special occasion beverages and desserts--there's something here for everyone.

In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. Americans, as Wendy Wall argues in this innovative book, were united, not so much by identical beliefs, as by a shared conviction that a distinctive "American Way" existed and that the affirmation of such common ground was essential to the future of the nation. Moreover, the roots of consensus politics lie not in the Cold War era, but in the turbulent decade that preceded U.S. entry into World War II. The social and economic chaos of the Depression years alarmed a diverse array of groups, as did the rise of two "alien" ideologies: fascism and communism. In this context, Americans of divergent backgrounds and beliefs seized on the notion of a unifying "American Way" and sought to convince their fellow citizens of its merits. Wall traces the competing efforts of business groups, politicians, leftist intellectuals, interfaith proponents, civil rights activists, and many others over nearly three decades to shape public understandings of the "American Way." Along the way, she explores the politics behind cultural productions ranging from The Adventures of Superman to the Freedom Train that circled the nation in the late 1940s. She highlights the intense debate that erupted over the term "democracy" after World War II, and identifies the origins of phrases such as "free enterprise" and the "Judeo-Christian tradition" that remain central to American political life. By uncovering the culture wars of the mid-twentieth century, this book sheds new light on a period that proved pivotal for American national identity and that remains the unspoken backdrop for debates over multiculturalism, national unity, and public values today.