FREE/BARGAIN - Cookbooks - 2015

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Do prisoners in some prisons in the U.S. have their own microwaves, or do most, if not all, have them in common areas where they can use them? How about the U.K.? Years (30 or 40) ago, it was common in the U.S. to hear people be critical of prisoners having color TVs in their cells. I don't hear that anymore, I don't know why.

Now some stupid human rights law requires jails to provide cable TV to the inmates.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Do prisoners in some prisons in the U.S. have their own microwaves, or do most, if not all, have them in common areas where they can use them? How about the U.K.? Years (30 or 40) ago, it was common in the U.S. to hear people be critical of prisoners having color TVs in their cells. I don't hear that anymore, I don't know why.

Searching for key words "prison private microwave" yields some interesting results. Here are three sets that I found particularly interesting:

• Prison Talk > FOR FAMILY & FRIENDS > General Prison Talk > Question re: Microwave In Cells - Computers?

You'll likely find your answer in a forum like PrisonTalk.com.

• "Jury awards inmate injured in South Bay prison $1.2 million"

When Roy Hyatt gets out of prison in two years, he is likely to be a wealthy man.

Hyatt, serving a 17-year sentence for a 1997 aggravated assault in Duval County, was awarded $1.2 million by a Palm Beach County jury this week to compensate him for losing the sight in one eye when another inmate at South Bay Correctional Facility threw boiling water in his face.

Prisoners injuring each other with substances heated in a microwave, fighting over microwave privileges, or extorting each other for microwaveable food is to be expected in a correctional facility, and for that reason I was surprised to learn that inmates - even in minimum security prisons - are permitted to use microwaves, unsupervised. As Orange Is the New Black portrays, violence and bullying occur even in minimum security facilities. Just like in high school. Only with adults. Who are convicted criminals. Some of whom are power hungry, sociopaths, psychotic, and/or obligated to show they're not to be crossed.

Here's a link to the memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, that inspired the Netflix series.

• "10 of the World’s Most Luxurious Prisons, and One Wild Card Thriller"

The criminals in these prisons live in much better conditions than some "civilians". Wouldn't be surprised if some of these inmates had private microwaves.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Do prisoners in some prisons in the U.S. have their own microwaves, or do most, if not all, have them in common areas where they can use them? How about the U.K.? Years (30 or 40) ago, it was common in the U.S. to hear people be critical of prisoners having color TVs in their cells. I don't hear that anymore, I don't know why.

I just realized that I committed a logical fallacy with my question at the beginning of the above paragraph. It is possible for both of these to be true: prisoners in some prisons in the U.S. have their own microwaves and most have them in common areas where they can use them.

I wanted to make that correction so ya'lls wouldn't think that I'm ignernt.

The professor of the logic course that I took in college is probably rolling over in his grave. Bless his dear soul.

[GtrsRGr8]

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FYI--Social Circle is about 40 miles east of Atlanta (I didn't know that "off the top of my head," I was curious and looked it up).

I wonder why there are so many more Southern cookbooks than there are Northern cookbooks? Could it be because the food is so much better down here? hahah

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Chicken and Dumplings, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cornbread, Collard Greens, and Sugared Pecans!

By any measure, the Blue Willow Inn in Social Circle, Georgia is as southern as you can get. Proprietor Billie Van Dyke says that no one is allowed to leave hungry, and certainly no one should after feasting on a variety of Southern salads, meats, vegetables, breads and desserts and, of course, sweet tea, the "Champagne of the South," and lemonade. Housed in a gloriously restored southern mansion, The Blue Willow Inn is home to Southern hospitality and charm at its best.

The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook offers delicious Southern recipes, vintage pictures from the early days of Social Circle, and fascinating anecdotes about the restaurant. It's a book that's wonderful for reading or for cooking.

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[Froide]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I just realized that I committed a logical fallacy with my question at the beginning of the above paragraph. It is possible for both of these to be true: prisoners in some prisons in the U.S. have their own microwaves and most have them in common areas where they can use them.

I wanted to make that correction so ya'lls wouldn't think that I'm ignernt.

The professor of the logic course that I took in college is probably rolling over in his grave. Bless his dear soul.

MECE Principle, also taught in math (set theory) and to management consultants in training.

[Cinisajoy]

At the gr8 one, I think it is because the north has more varied cooking than the South.
Down here we have bbq, BACON, butter, milk eggs and potatoes. I almost forgot chicken fried steak and gravy.
Also the heat in the south causes food to have less calories than the same meal up north. So the southerners can afford to eat all those rich foods.

I guess I should add the caveat: if you are a vegan, do not try to find food at a southern funeral luncheon. The vegetables will either be smothered in butter or bacon and all the desserts will have milk, cream and eggs.

Now seriously I think it is because the south is a region and the North is various states. Also southern cooking has a specific Dewey decimal number, there is no number for northern cooking.
641.5975 is southern.
Texas is 641.59764

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

. . . .
if you are a vegan, do not try to find food at a southern funeral luncheon. The vegetables will either be smothered in butter or bacon and all the desserts will have milk, cream and eggs.
. . . .
southern cooking has a specific Dewey decimal number, there is no number for northern cooking.
641.5975 is southern.
Texas is 641.59764

I'm going to have it stipulated that there is to be no food at my funeral. It just wouldn't be fair for all of those people to be enjoying it while I won't be able to.(ha)

That is fascinating about the Dewey decimal numbers. Of course, Texas probably is as big as all of (the rest of) the South combined.

I wonder if there is a separate identification in the Library of Congress' numbering system. I never could figure out the LOC's catalog numbering system. But I never tried real hard, either. ha

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I'm going to have it stipulated that there is to be no food at my funeral. It just wouldn't be fair for all of those people to be enjoying it while I won't be able to.(ha)

That is fascinating about the Dewey decimal numbers. Of course, Texas probably is as big as all of (the rest of) the South combined.

I wonder if there is a separate identification in the Library of Congress' numbering system. I never could figure out the LOC's catalog numbering system. But I never tried real hard, either. ha

All states have a dd number. They all start with 641.597
The 5 designates cooking, the 9 is international, the 7 is the United States, the next number is the region and then the state.
Amusing thing is desserts are 641.86, with longer numbers for cookies, cakes and pies.
Can you spot the person in this thread that actually at one point had all her cookbooks cataloged in access by DD number.

The LOC is actually simpler but also more general.

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[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

All states have a dd number. They all start with 641.597
The 5 designates cooking, the 9 is international, the 7 is the United States, the next number is the region and then the state.
Amusing thing is desserts are 641.86, with longer numbers for cookies, cakes and pies.
Can you spot the person in this thread that actually at one point had all her cookbooks cataloged in access by DD number.

The LOC is actually simpler but also more general.

Well, you can eliminate me as a possibility of being the one who cataloged all of the cookbooks by DD. First of all, because I didn't do it. Second, because I'm a "him" and not a "her." I'm taking a wild guess here that it might be . . . you? And, taking another wild guess, I'm guessing that if you are/were not a librarian, that you've had quite a bit of schooling in library science.

More really fascinating stuff about the DD and LOC, that you gave. My mother was an elementary school librarian for many years, has a Master's degree in library science, etc. I've always liked libraries and I think that the whole business of cataloging books is cool. But I would never consider cataloging my cookbooks, of which I do have a very large number (mostly, at this point, in the dead-tree format). Nor would I ever consider cataloging my enormous library of other paper-format books. Probably for the same reason that you no longer have your cookbooks cataloged by DD. ha

Getting back more to what we're mainly supposed to be talking about on this website--ebooks--I do want, badly, to find some way to catalog the ones that I've got. It is a different matter being able to organize books on a physical shelf by subject, and being able to find what you want that way, but it is a whole different ballgame organizing ebooks, which can't be put on a (physical, at least) shelf.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Well, you can eliminate me as a possibility of being the one who cataloged all of the cookbooks by DD. First of all, because I didn't do it. Second, because I'm a "him" and not a "her." I'm taking a wild guess here that it might be . . . you? And, taking another wild guess, I'm guessing that if you are/were not a librarian, that you've had quite a bit of schooling in library science.

More really fascinating stuff about the DD and LOC, that you gave. My mother was an elementary school librarian for many years, has a Master's degree in library science, etc. I've always liked libraries and I think that the whole business of cataloging books is cool. But I would never consider cataloging my cookbooks, of which I do have a very large number (mostly, at this point, in the dead-tree format). Nor would I ever consider cataloging my enormous library of other paper-format books. Probably for the same reason that you no longer have your cookbooks cataloged by DD. ha

Getting back more to what we're mainly supposed to be talking about on this website--ebooks--I do want, badly, to find some way to catalog the ones that I've got. It is a different matter being able to organize books on a physical shelf by subject, and being able to find what you want that way, but it is a whole different ballgame organizing ebooks, which can't be put on a (physical, at least) shelf.

Sent you a message. If you want start a thread and copy my organization ideas.
I have loved libraries since I was 3.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Sent you a message. If you want start a thread and copy my organization ideas.
I have loved libraries since I was 3.

I'll check to see what, if any, threads already exist that might include that. I would think that there's got to be at least one.

[murg]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

But I would never consider cataloging my cookbooks, of which I do have a very large number (mostly, at this point, in the dead-tree format).

Mine are catalogued by height.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by murg

Mine are catalogued by height.

I have some like that too.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

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Getting back more to what we're mainly supposed to be talking about on this website--ebooks--I do want, badly, to find some way to catalog the ones that I've got. It is a different matter being able to organize books on a physical shelf by subject, and being able to find what you want that way, but it is a whole different ballgame organizing ebooks, which can't be put on a (physical, at least) shelf.

For pbooks goodreads.com provides an App (requires a tablet or smartphone with a camera) which scans barcodes to made a list of books owned.

For ebooks I think there are ways of importing a list.

It would be fun to get a list of all one's fiction set on Corfu (say).