Bøger af Gillian Clark

Chef Gillian Clark is at the end of her rope. Her checkered career in food has come to a complete halt. Maybe that's not a bad thing. It seems like the business these past few years has been rubbing her the wrong way. She's lost her way and forgotten why she started cooking in the first place. She left marketing to get away from the work day that set her innards a blaze and had her reaching for antacid. Now the making and selling of food has her reaching for harder stuff-taxes are passed due, the landlord wants more rent, the customers didn't come all this way for Lobster Newburg; they want fried chicken. Moreover, she is never able to get any judge she appears before to take her side. And issues of race make her wonder who she's really cooking for. Chef Gillian Clark is beyond tearing her hair out. She's ready to jump. And as she sinks to the bottom of the Potomac River, her 20 years of life in food spills over into her semi-consciousness. Played out before the reader is this oxygen deprived look at what should have been a great career. Chef Gillian Clark is the award-winning interpreter of classic American cuisine. She achieved local celebrity as the Executive Chef and Owner of the famed and critically acclaimed, but now closed, casual fine dining restaurant, Colorado Kitchen. She regularly appears on the Food Network frying chicken with Bobby Flay or surprising Guy Fieri with a Turkey-Brie Turnover and on National Public Radio talking food and culture for Weekend Edition and as a regular commentator with the Huffington Post. Recently, Gillian thrilled food lovers. with. her memoir/cookbook, Out of the Frying Pan--detailing her rise up the food industry ranks as a single mother.

The most important days of our lives are often the ones which come without warning. Although it was just another regular day that began with another annoying buzz of the early morning alarm clock for Jenny, a nurse working at the hospital her rise had already set in motion a chain of events that would change her life forever. And although her mother had always told her that every single action of a person contributed to "life's rich tapestry", Jenny could never foresee how the day's events would result in her now uncertain future. Witnessing the mugging of an old couple during her lunch break, the thief steals her bike to make a quick getaway. Shaken but taking control of the situation, the level-headed nurse consoles the couple and takes them to the police station to file a report. However a few streets down the wallet thief rides Jenny's bike straight into oncoming traffic. Hit by a car and lying in the middle of the road, in the ensuing chaos the wallet is stolen by yet another opportunistic thief as bystanders run to the mugger's aid, setting into motion a series of events that will change the lives of everyone involved forever. Shrugging the day off as a spot of bad luck, Jenny attempts to put the events behind her. However, as fate would have it her story is far from over, and it'll be sooner than she thinks before she sees the people involved in this hectic day again. In her excellent new novel, Gillian Clark weaves an intricate and interconnecting tale of destiny and fate as the lives of these strangers slowly become entwined in the pages.

What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other? Late antique philosophers, Christians included, asked these central questions. This title explores their answers, and uses those answers to ask further questions, reading lamblichus, Augustine and others in their social and intellectual context.

Explains just how and why Augustine came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely secular existence to follow a life of prayer and study, leading to a true comprehension of God and the Bible. This title deals with Augustine's own experiences of religion, philosophy and Christian faith.