http://www.bookpod.org/home/ http://www.bookpod.org/the-world-in-me/#PageComment_6162 I have recently read \"Displaced Persons\'was wondering if Joseph would consider becoming a born again Messianic Jew??In the book he was referred to as J.C. or Jiminy Cricket..much of the persecution w/Hitler etc may have been a result of not excepting Jesus as the Messiah..This only an observation.But in the book of Isiah 1;11-13 explains how God doesnt desire animal sacrifices,and only had seen the blood as a prelude to the complete atonement Christ paid on the cross for our sins!!He said if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and repent of there sins and seek his face,then he will hear from heaven,forgive their sins and heal there land..Amen Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:47:41 -0400 Terry Mclellan http://www.bookpod.org/the-world-in-me/#PageComment_6162 http://www.bookpod.org/loving-a-mentally-ill-mother/#PageComment_6161 This is a really good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw.Thanks for posting this informative article. For more information visit us:--I would like to thank you for the efforts you have made in sharing this. I am hoping the same best work from you in the future. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:23:49 -0400 raw food recipes http://www.bookpod.org/loving-a-mentally-ill-mother/#PageComment_6161 http://www.bookpod.org/the-hmong-meet-american-healthcare/#PageComment_6160 Great companion interview to the book, reinforcing the central themes. Helping patients and their families correctly understand (at least at a non-technical level) the whats and whys of medical treatment is such a crucial aspect of healthcare, yet can often fall by the wayside because of physician stress, language issues, and fundamental disconnects in people's worldviews. This is a tragic example of how the communication gap between doctor and patient can produce bad outcomes despite the best intentions of both parties. Echoing Fadiman, there should be a call for excellent translators in hospitals across the country serving immigrant populations, people who can bridge not only language gaps but cultural gaps as well. Fri, 06 May 2011 18:44:08 -0400 Nate http://www.bookpod.org/the-hmong-meet-american-healthcare/#PageComment_6160 http://www.bookpod.org/cooking-with-commonsense/#PageComment_6159 People of an earlier generation used to eat calf's foot jelly. In fact, I was in a play in high school ("The Man Who Came to Dinner?") in which a character talks about eating this stuff! Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:56:37 -0500 Bookpod http://www.bookpod.org/cooking-with-commonsense/#PageComment_6159 http://www.bookpod.org/cooking-with-commonsense/#PageComment_6158 Interesting interview -- makes the cookbook even better. Pickled pigs' feet are rare today, as are chicken feet in the soup. Wasn't there a delicacy, too, made from calves' feet in aspic? Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:34:50 -0500 Cookie http://www.bookpod.org/cooking-with-commonsense/#PageComment_6158 http://www.bookpod.org/cooking-with-commonsense/#PageComment_6157 I disagree! The more it looks like the animal it came from the better! Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:30:07 -0500 Max http://www.bookpod.org/cooking-with-commonsense/#PageComment_6157 http://www.bookpod.org/cooking-with-commonsense/#PageComment_6156 I remember eating chicken feet when I was little, say 6 years old. The yellower the better. I think back and see the scaled texture, and the leg ending in an actual 3-branched foot--toes clipped off. I dug in with relish, and savored the juice bursting into my mouth. Chicken feet made the best soup, my mother pronounces to this day. Yet if today someone were to place a bowl of the yellowest, juiciest chicken feet in front of me, I would quickly decline. The very idea of eating a foot--that looks remarkably like a real foot oughta look--simply nauseates me today. Give me meat that looks as distant as possible from the source, thank you! Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:22:19 -0500 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/cooking-with-commonsense/#PageComment_6156 http://www.bookpod.org/why-eat-food-that-makes-you-sick/#PageComment_6155 I disagree with Levana Kirschenbaum's interpretation of Americans' valuing foods that are made by someone else. I have simply not known this to be true, that folks are proud, as she said, to have bought something rather than made it themselves. I know this is the culture of fast food and processed food, but I don't think that actually translates in terms of what makes us proud, or what we truly desire or value. On the contrary, I think for many of us we are sadly missing the time and energy (and even relationships) that allow us to eat home cooked meals, and enjoy in the dining and social rituals around the dinner table. But it's a loss, that we feel... not something that makes us proud. I know there are commercials out there that make a mother look smug because everyone loves her pot roast that she got out of a box in the freezer section. But that's a commercial. Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:09:29 -0500 Catherine Campbell http://www.bookpod.org/why-eat-food-that-makes-you-sick/#PageComment_6155 http://www.bookpod.org/a-novelist-s-tale-of-afghanistan-in-184/#PageComment_6154 From what I've read--like the story of the 18-year-old woman whose jealous husband sliced off her nose and ears then left her for dead--it seems to me that this tale gives Afghani women more influence than they actually have. Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:19:26 -0400 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/a-novelist-s-tale-of-afghanistan-in-184/#PageComment_6154 http://www.bookpod.org/making-art-in-a-random-universe/#PageComment_6153 I checked out the youtube link to Boyle's reading "The Lie"--great reading! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:42:06 -0400 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/making-art-in-a-random-universe/#PageComment_6153