Vegan Central & Eastern European Recipes
This one is sort of a bread spread, it's very good at parties. Bake the eggplant on the middle rack for about an hour, turning it over once or twice untill it is soft and it's skin is charred and blistered. Meanwhile, cook the onions in 4 ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Elizabeth Frank
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every ... [... more]
Random House |
Deliana Simeonova
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every ... [... more]
Random House |
Pinhas Sadeh
Translated by Hillel Halkin, this is a remarkably diverse and immensely entertaining gathering of Jewish legends and the first worldwide anthology of Jewish folktales. It draws from both traditional Eastern European literary sources and the vast ... [... more]
Random House |
Leonard Wolf
The Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town, a social satire, a kabbalistic allegory, an innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling, a ... [... more]
Random House |
Vegan Central/Eastern European Recipes
Slice the vegies, put them into a soup pot and fill with water to about 1 1/2 to 2 inches above the vegetables. When the vegetables are soft, mash them with a potato masher (do not put into a blender or food processor; the idea is to have a ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
The Twelve Chairs
 Poor translation: I think this book suffers mostly through translation because I've seen the Russian film versions any number of times, and found "The Twelve Chairs" to be utterly hilarious. However, the humor seems lost in the Northwest [... more]
CDN$22.92
Amazon CA |
The Rose Garden: Gulistan
The title says it best The ROSE GARDEN: Simple but yet grounded in substance and wisdom. Saadi breathes the jist of his life and the truth he has experienced into short stories that take much longer "to get" (interpet/understand) then to finish. [... more]
CDN$23.96
Amazon CA |
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
The hollowness of modern life: This little book contains three short stories: "How much land does a man need?", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", and "The Kreutzer sonata". Although the stories are widely different, they share a [... more]
CDN$2.25
Amazon CA |
Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka
One of Hrabal's Best!: Total Fears takes the form of a series of letters to an American student before and during the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia. It is equal parts a love story, a personal memoir, and aching commentary on the fears Hrabal felt [... more]
CDN$14.07
Amazon CA |
Spiritual Wisdom Of Hafez
Of A Great Mystical Master: This is a wonderfully mystical book about the Persian master poet Hafez, whose poems remain popular today with Iranians all over the world as a great divination tool. The authors are an Iranian woman, H. Pourafzal, who learned [... more]
CDN$37.95
Amazon CA |
Tales from Two Pockets
From Amazon.com: Karel Capek (1890-1938), one of the greatest Czechoslovakian authors of the century, and who mastered numerous forms of writing, was particularly inventive with the genre of mystery, detective, and crime fiction. In Tales from Two [... more]
CDN$22.95
Amazon CA |
