Bøger af Julie Hill

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

The Ultimate Hummus Cookbook is your ultimate guide to exploring the endless possibilities of this popular Middle Eastern dip. With 100 delicious and nutritious recipes, this cookbook will show you how to create a variety of hummus flavors that are sure to satisfy any palate.Each recipe is accompanied by a full-color image, giving you a glimpse of the delectable dips you'll be creating. With 100 colored images, one for each recipe, you'll be able to see the beautiful presentation and texture of each hummus dish.From classic hummus to unique flavors like roasted red pepper and spicy jalapeno, this cookbook has something for everyone. You'll also find recipes for hummus made with other legumes, like black beans and edamame, as well as recipes for using hummus as a versatile ingredient in other dishes, like hummus stuffed chicken breasts and hummus pizza.The Ultimate Hummus Cookbook also includes information on the history of hummus, its health benefits, and tips for making the perfect hummus every time. Whether you're a hummus enthusiast or a newcomer to this delicious dip, this cookbook will guide you through the process of creating delicious and nutritious hummus with ease.With The Ultimate Hummus Cookbook, you'll be able to impress your friends and family with your culinary skills, as you explore the world of hummus with unique and flavorful recipes.

This story is about a woman that suffered domestic abuse with her diseases of Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis, that took her life, and her partner did not understand what was going on. She tried to escape and Ben, a doctor on his way home, took her hand and changed her life, even though her last confrontation with her partner left her stabbed and bleeding. Falling in love was the last thing on either of their minds.

An engaging and richly appreciative account of life in Afghanistan in Pre-Taliban times. Another Afghanistan: A Pre-Taliban Memoir is set in the mid-1970s, when Julie Hill was posted with her husband, a United Nations Development Program Representative in Kabul, in between the fall of the old monarchy and the takeover of the country by the Taliban in the 1990s. The book fills a void in what most people know about that country, which has been largely defined by the excesses of the Taliban and the politics of the US and the old Soviet Union. While the Taliban do not enter the picture until 20 years after her departure, in the popular mind, they create a clear demarcation line between the old and new Afghanistan. Besides, given the country's millennial history, a 20-year interlude is of little consequence. For the ordinary reader, only the Taliban has coherence as a concept, so she has used them in her title. In any case, Afghanistan remains very much in the news, albeit perhaps for all the wrong reasons, and the author would like to balance the network news with a more personal and engaging chronicle of that country and its people. Afghanistan half a century ago was at peace with itself, with its neighbors, and even with its warlords. The politics of the region was stable, education was encouraged, women were being liberated slowly, and the country was moving in the direction of becoming a modern secular state. The book offers a view of Afghanistan and of its people-including the foreign community-on an intimate level, afforded by the fact that she was involved both in the diplomatic wife's organization and in conversations with ordinary citizens in the country' s remote corners. Representing the UN at the Diplomatic Wife's Organization, she witnessed firsthand the tension between East and West during the peak of the Cold War, albeit in a more informal but no less interesting arena. As an Alexandrian Greek she was neutral in the balance that pitted diplomatic wives from the West against those from the Soviet or Eastern bloc and the non-aligned nations. Significant, memorable, and often humorous exchanges occurred at the diplomatic events she attended. Speaking Dari with women cloistered in their homes in the countryside, the author gained insights into their country and its culture. She was exhilarated and yet also perplexed to meet such a generous, gracious, and handsome people, and yet to find some of them-too many of them-caught up in violence of both a very public and very personal kind. Afghanistan emerges in her book as a country both stunningly beautiful and bewildering, immensely rich in archaeological remains. The book tries to awaken a lost interest in remnants of civilizations and in the country's fabulous bazaars and creates a vivid tableau of traveling adventures based on first-hand observations. Given her origins, the author has always been fascinated by the exploits of Alexander the Great and the vibrant cities the Greeks left behind, which included Ai Khanum in Afghanistan. She was privileged, as it was a rarity for a foreigner to gain a permit, to visit the legendary city on the border of the Amu-Darya River. Completely destroyed few years later by the Taliban, the area has reverted to a field of opium poppies. The book takes the reader into places where life bustles with bargaining and gossip in bazaars and teahouses, into places where there was no road at all, traveling without a map or land mark in sight. She encounters nomads on their annual pilgrimage to higher mountains and grapples with the dilemma of their way of a life, and their cultural extinction with the emergence of the Taliban and the widening impact of globalization.

But it is only by understanding what has gone wrong, that everyone - politicians, business people and us as consumers - can create a new and better material world.