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Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated Food52 Mighty Salads: 60 New Ways to Turn Salad Into Dinner in Books

Jun 18, 2018  
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Food52 Mighty Salads: 60 New Ways to Turn Salad Into Dinner
Food52 | 2017
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Food52 Mighty Salads: 60 New Ways to Turn Salad into Dinner--and Make-Ahead Lunches, Too by Editors of Food52 is a very extensive collection of recipes including a lot of earthy recipes as well as some of the classics with European and Asian based choices as well.

What I like the most about Food52 cookbooks is all the helpful hints they give you such as how to refresh wilted greens, best way to store and easiest way to peel hardboiled eggs. This book is filled with good advice as well as gorgeous recipes. It has great photos and there is an abundant amount of dressing recipes and not just your standard vinaigrettes. I really want to try the seared scallop salad with black lentils, peanut noodle salad, spring vegetable panzanella and the Caesar- style kale salad sounds interesting.

I received this book from Ten Speed Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
  
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David McK (3550 KP) rated The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3) in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
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The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3)
Ben Kane | 2011
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Final part in Ben Kane's Forgotten Legion trilogy, this follows the same format as the previous two books ('The Forgotten Legion' and 'The Silver Eagle') in following it's protaganist section about, ending each section on a cliffhanger.

Whereas before this could be slightly jarring (moving from Rome to, eg, Alexandria, and then back to Rome), it works slightly better in this novvel as some of the characters are working their way back to the seat of the Roman Republic eventually taking it section about within the environs of the city.

As the series has been working up to, the novel also culminates in the fateful Ides of March, with the infamous assissination of Julius Caesar in the forum by a disgruntled group of nobles.

The series as whole was readable enough, and while I may read a few more by this author, I doubt I'll be going out of my way to look for them.
  
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David McK (3550 KP) rated Hunting the Eagles: 2: Eagles of Rome in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
Hunting the Eagles: 2: Eagles of Rome
Hunting the Eagles: 2: Eagles of Rome
Ben Kane | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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I actually read this in a busy period, as a sort of on-again-off-again kind of deal amongst a couple of other (shorter, less involved) novels.

This is the second in Ben Kane's 'Eagles of Rome' series, that deals with - in the first novel (Eagles at War) perhaps Rome's most famous defeat of all: that which led (according to legend) the Emperor Augustus Caesar to cry 'Varus, give me back my legions' after that general lost three legions and - horror of horrors! - their eagles in the battle (ambush) of Teutoberg Forest.

This novel follows some key characters from that novel (and survivors of the ambush), from a revolt by the Legionaries through to another battle in a forest/bog land and is told from both the point of view of the Romans and from the German war leader Arminius (who successfully carried out that ambush).

Like the previous entry in the series, Ben Kane's knowledge of the period definitely shines through in this!