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13
Nov

Why University Presses Matter

We are pleased to have Library Relations Manager Rachel Lee blogging for us as part of the University Press Week blog tour! The tour continues today at University of Hawai’i Press, who will …

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08
Nov

Happy International Tempranillo Day

Not that you need an excuse to tuck into a great bottle of Tempranillo, but we’re giving you one anyway! Today is International Tempranillo Day, a celebration of the Tempranillo grape with …

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30
Oct

Moral Fire and Mitt Romney

This guest post is cross-posted from Joseph Horowitz’s blog, Unanswered Question. Horowitz is the author of  Moral Fire and many other books. Previously a New York Times music critic, then Executive Director of …

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26
Oct

Mexican Cuisine’s African Roots

Thanks to Marilyn Tausend for this guest post on the fascinating, little-known history of Africa’s influence on Mexican cuisine. Tausend is the author of the new UC Press book La Cocina Mexicana: Many …

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22
Oct

Why I Wrote The Hakka Cookbook

This guest post comes to us from veteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan, a recipe editor for Sunset Magazine for 34 years and former president of the Association of Chinese Cooking Teachers …

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17
Oct

A Case for Expensive Oil

While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney seemed to argue in last night’s debate over which was better, cheap oil or cheaper oil, it can be refreshing to hear another perspective. In an …

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02
Oct

Clark Terry Wins Satchmo Award

Big congratulations are in order for Clark Terry, who recently received the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation‘s prestigious Satchmo Award, which carries a $5,000 prize. On Terry’s website, his wife Gwen writes that …

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