Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore or LaBelle Cuisine

Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore

Author: Hilda M Ransom

Chapters cover the folklore of bees and bee culture—from Egyptian, Babylonian, and other ancient sources to practices in modern Europe. Rare illustrations of bees, hives, and beekeepers as they appear in paintings and sculpture; on coins, jewelry, and Mayan glyphs; and carved into African tree trunks.

Table of Contents:

I.	Early Times	19
II.	Ancient Egypt	24
III.	Sumeria, Babylonia, and Assyria	35
IV.	India and China	43
V.	The Hittites, Western Asia, and Crete	55
VI.	The Hebrews and Mohammedans	65
VII.	Beekeeping in Greece	75
VIII.	Beekeeping among the Romans	83
IX.	Bees and Honey in Greek and Roman Myths	91
X.	The "Ox-born Bee"	112
XI.	Honey in Greek Religious Rites	119
XII.	The Food of the Gods	133
XIII.	Bees and Honey among the Germanic and Slavonic Peoples in Central Europe	140
Part I.	Historical
XIV.	Bees and Honey among the Germanic and Slavonic Peoples in Central Europe	155
Part II.	Myths and Folklore
XV.	Bee Folklore in Finland. The Kalevala	176
XVI.	Beekeeping in the British Isles	189
Part I.	Mainly Historical
XVII.	Beekeeping in the British Isles	211
Part II.	Legends and Superstitions
XVIII.	Customs and Superstitions in France	233
XIX.	Folk-stories from Various Lands	241
XX.	The Bee in America	260
XXI.	Ritual Uses of Milk and Honey	275
XXII.	Primitive Peoples of To-day	285
	Index	301

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LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About

Author: Patti LaBell

"From the time I was a little girl, I knew there were two things in this world I was born to do: sing and cook. I've spent my life developing my voice and my recipes, and to tell you the truth, I'm hard pressed to say where I'm happiest--in concert or in the kitchen, making music or making meals."

For Patti, cooking is about love. Taught by the great Southern cooks in her family--her mother, father, and aunts Hattie Mae and Joshia Mae--Patti LaBelle has kept these family heirlooms close to her heart. But now, she invites you into her kitchen and serves up more than 100 of her favorite recipes, from treasured down-home favorites--Say-My-Name Smothered Chicken and Gravy, Fierce Fried Corn, and Aunt Hattie's Scrumptious Sweet Tater Bread--to good-enough-for-dinner-parties dishes--Shrimp Etouffée, Roast Leg of Lamb with Rosemary-Lemon Rub, and Aunt Mary's Philadelphia Buttercake.

Wherever Patti goes, so do her electric frying pans and bottles of hot sauce. After her raise-the-roof shows, she often goes back to her hotel room and whips up a meal for her band or celebrity visitors. When she's home--at holiday time and at family gatherings--or just after one of her sold-out concert tours, Patti likes nothing more than to head for her kitchen and cook her Geechee Geechee Ya Ya Gumbo, Pass-It-On Pot Roast, or Burnin' Babyback Ribs. And like her bestselling memoir, Don't Block the Blessings, her accompanying personal reminiscences will fill your heart just as her recipes will fill your stomach.

Patti LaBelle's LaBelle Cuisine has the recipes you'll want to cook, eat, and share with friends. Filled with the legendary diva's favorite dishes andstep-by-step instructions on how to prepare them, LaBelle Cuisine makes you feel like Patti's in the kitchen with you, demonstrating the recipes and techniques that can turn anybody into a fabulous cook.

Publishers Weekly

"From the time I was a little girl," says LaBelle, "I knew there were two things in this world I was born to do: sing and cook." Admirers of LaBelle's Grammy-winning vocal style are sure to find her Southern dishes just as dynamic. Starting with such chapters as Sensational Salads, Soups, and Sandwiches, she cooks and talks her way through Meat, Poultry and Seafood entrees, Fabulous Fixin's and To-Die-For Desserts and Breads. Her famous jalapeno-spiked Potato Salad, Pass-It-On Pot Roast, Screamin' Mean Greens and Wicked Peach Cobbler make colorful appearances, along with practical cooking tips and plenty of exuberant attitude. This is high-style down-home cooking, sophisticated, flavorful, mostly calorie-laden and generally irresistible; the fact that Patti has fixed her Luscious Liver and Onions and Over the Rainbow Macaroni and Cheese for the likes of Mick Jagger, Oprah and Elton John just adds to the fun. LaBelle (author of the bestselling autobiography Don't Block the Blessings) believes in cooking for pleasure and therapy: as she says, "Usually when people are stressed out they want a pill, but honey, give me a pot!" Readers will want one, too, by the end of this book, for LaBelle's enthusiasm is infectious.

Gourmet Observer

If cooking is an expression of love, then LaBelle Cuisine is a lovely, heartwarming tribute to those who inspired and adored her.