Kay Salter – författare

From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay—amateur chefs and perfect hosts—here is a charming, beautifully illustrated tour de table: a food lover''s companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year''s Eve. Life Is Meals is rich with culinary wisdom, history, recipes, literary pleasures, and the authors'' own memories of successes and catastrophes.

For instance:

• The menu on the Titanic on the fatal night

• Reflections on dining from Queen Victoria, JFK, Winnie-the-Pooh, Garrison Keillor, and many others

• The seductiveness of a velvety Brie or the perfect martini

• How to decide whom to invite to a dinner party—and whom not to

• John Irving''s family recipe for meatballs; Balzac''s love of coffee

• The greatest dinner ever given at the White House

• Where in Paris Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter had French onion soup at 4:00 a.m.

• How to cope with acts of God and man-made disasters in the kitchen

Sophisticated as well as practical, opinionated, and indispensable, Life Is Meals is a tribute to the glory of food and drink, and the joy of sharing them with others. "The meal is the emblem of civilization," the Salters observe. "What would one know of life as it should be lived, or nights as they should be spent, apart from meals?"BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James Salter''s All That Is.

Roaming free along the barrier islands of coastal North Carolina live wild horses known as Outer Banks ponies. They can be seen grazing on marsh grass along the shore by residents of Beaufort who are proud and protective toward their neighbors across Taylors Creek.

Summer visitors come to watch and photograph these ponies which have captured the hearts and imagination of horse lovers of all ages.

In Fifteenth Summer, people along the waterfront and on upstairs porches watch as volunteers attempt to rescue a foal in danger of losing its life. Sarah and Joshua Bowers watch anxiously as their grandfather, too, is suddenly in danger.

Secrets, surprises and disappointments

all crowd the pages of Eighteenth Summer.

Sarahs dear friend, Nancy, must pick up the pieces of a shattered dream and go on with her life. With advice from Sarah she is able to do so.

Cousin Marnie must spend the summer tucked away in her grandmothers home. The only person she knows she can trust with her secret is Sarah, the cousin whose feelings she has delighted in hurting every summer.

A tall stranger singles Sarah out from a group of friends at the Fourth of July parade. During their brief encounter Sarah once more receives a proposal of marriage.

Sarah receives a letter from Ohio and rushes to read its contents. She is heartbroken to learn her friend of six years is in love. Words in the letter like, special and friend do nothing to mend her wounded heart.

Meet Sarah.

The protagonist of the Sarah Bowers series was fashioned after my granddaughter, Sarah Rude. Sarah grew up in Beaufort, where her life revolved around family, church, and friends, with emphasis on faith in God and traditional family values.

Sarah graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she met her husband, Chris, also a graduate of Berklee. The couple, with Orville, their pet duck, live in Northridge, California.