Michael Fink – författare

Discover how one remarkable purple yam can transform everyday drinks, baked treats, creamy desserts, and celebration recipes. In The Authentic Ube Cookbook, Michael Fink presents 60 approachable recipes created for home cooks who want to explore the distinctive color, gentle sweetness, nutty depth, and vanilla-like character of authentic ube powder. More than a collection of beautiful purple desserts, this practical cookbook explains how to select, hydrate, store, and use ube powder successfully, while helping readers understand why ube should not be confused with taro or purple sweet potato. Inside, you will discover: Essential ube preparations, including smooth ube paste, dessert sauce, coconut jam, halaya-inspired spread, and whipped ube cream Cafe-style drinks such as creamy ube lattes, coconut smoothies, milkshakes, white chocolate mocha, and bubble tea Colorful breakfast favorites, including pancakes, waffles, French toast, overnight oats, chia pudding, and muffins Irresistible cookies, bars, cakes, cupcakes, breads, rolls, pies, tarts, and cheesecakes Creamy puddings, panna cotta, creme brulee, parfaits, ice creams, frozen yogurt, popsicles, and granita Gift-worthy mochi bites, coconut truffles, white chocolate fudge, baked doughnuts, dessert jars, and celebration-board ideasEach recipe includes clear ingredients, step-by-step preparation, practical storage guidance, and helpful notes for managing sweetness, moisture, texture, and natural ube color. Whether you are opening your first package of ube powder or searching for new ways to use an ingredient you already love, this cookbook will help you create memorable purple-yam recipes with greater knowledge and confidence. From a comforting morning latte to a showstopping celebration cake, The Authentic Ube Cookbook brings the vibrant possibilities of ube into the everyday home kitchen.

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,6 (A), University of Regensburg (Insitute for American Studies), language: English, abstract: 1. 'Narratives of a New Belonging' - Introduction and Aim of the StudyIn March 1968 Robert Kennedy reported the following about the miserable living conditions on most Native American reservations to a Senate sub-committee: The first Americans are still the last Americans in terms of income, employment, health and education. I believe this to be a national tragedy for all Americans, for we all are in some way responsible (qtd. in Breidlid 1998: 6). Opening this thesis with this rhetoric pun on the first and the last on the American continent has been a deliberate decision as Kennedy s status quo report provides for a nice introduction to this thesis larger subject matter. When his dialogics of the first and the last are not only restricted to U.S. American Indian communities, the overall image evoked can in fact easily be applied to other U.S. ethnic groups as well. Having long settled the desert regions north of nowadays U.S. Mexican border, contemporary Hispanic Americans, for instance, as the descendents of an early mestizo population of Mexican-Indian, European-Spanish and Anglo-American ancestry, share a collective memory which far precedes the U.S. presence in North America. Likewise African Americans can provide for a historical legacy that through the Diaspora of the Middle Passage and the system of plantation slavery easily traces itself back to the very first beginnings of American civilization. When in recent years many other immigrant and minority groups have handed in similar claims, the overall picture of American history evoked is no longer one of a WASP unitarian sense of historiography, but of transcultural diversity and plurality which clearly contradicts the proclaimed assimilatory homogeneity of the American character. Having already started to re-imagine Ethnic American historical legacies in the U.S. as of having been among the first on the American continent, it still remains to provide for the respective present-day social realities as of being among the last in terms of power structures. [...]