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Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts
There are some preconceptions about southern traditions that need to be clarified Moonshining is no longer the pastime of grizzled Deliverance yahoos, but a multimillion-dollar business laced with SWAT-style raids; squirrel brains probably aren't responsible for neurological disorders; and in Louisiana, a good cockfight is fun for the whole family. These are some of the enlightened reports delivered by Burkhard Bilger as he explores the stereotypical, eclectic habits of southerners from West Virginia to Oklahoma. Despite Bilger's journalistic pedigree (he is an editor with The Sciences and Discover, and has credits in The Atlantic and Harper's, where his cockfighting piece, "Enter the Chicken" previously appeared), he slips into nostalgia just enough to romanticize a squirrel hunt, or raise a game of backwoods marbles into an Olympic march of glory. Bilger kicks off the tour from his hometown in Oklahoma, where he "noodles"--thrashes a limb around in catfish-thick waters--hoping to land a fabled 80-pound monster with his bare hands. In Louisiana he challenges the misgivings any nonenthusiast might have about cockfighting. Even though it's illegal in most of the country, the bloodsport is thriving in the Bayou State, replete with trade magazines, well-produced venues, and American Kennel Club-worthy breeding strategies. The same passion for efficiency goes into the moonshining business, where Bilger is taken under the wing of one of the few shiners willing to lead him through his sourmash operation. A few nights later, however, Bilger is on the other side, on a raid with the local sheriff. Squirrel-brain consumption is still popular in hamlets throughout Kentucky, even after a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine blamed a neurological disease on the dish. Frog legs, one Georgia entrepreneur claims, will soon replace chicken, and southern cooking--the kind that features chitlins, pigs feet, and collards--has become haute cuisine in Atlanta. Back in Oklahoma, Bilger connects with a coonhound trainer during a long night's raccoon chase, and he follows the success of a backwoods marble team who shaped their shooters in the granite-strewn streams of Tennessee. Bilger treats each eccentric character with a distant respect and hints at the melancholy of losing tradition, no matter how bizarre. --Lolly Merrell.
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SINGuini: Noodling Around with Silly Songs
Even kids who think they hate singing cannot resist the goofy tunes in this songbook Written specifically for upper-elementary and middle-school students, parodies of old favorites like "My Bonnie Went in for a Face Lift" and "Oh, My Darling, Frankensteen," and hilarious original tunes like "Snot Is Not the Proper Subject for a Song" and the tongue-twisting "Impossible to Sing Song" keep kids laughing while they learn to love singing. Short, melody-only versions of the songs photocopy easily and are accompanied by full-piano leader editions. .
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Out There Fishing: Noodling for Catfish and Other True Tales of Angling Fun and Adventure
Out There Fishing spans four decades of hard-core angling throughout the Western Hemisphere. Keith Sutton writes a highly popular adventure column for ESPNOutdoors.com, Out There with Keith "Catfish" Sutton. Now, in Out There Fishing , his unforgettable stories of angling in the wilds of the Americas are collected in print for the first time. Learn what it feels like to be hooked to a giant sturgeon, a 600-pound catfish or the world's biggest freshwater ray; find out what it takes to survive an encounter with gun-wielding bandits in the Mexican outback and what it feels like to stare into the eyes of a giant alligator gar; and discover why Sutton is just as happy fishing on an oxbow lake or farm pond as on the Amazon in Brazil. Part memoir, part travelogue, Out There Fishing documents a mixture of passion, awe, wanderlust and a relentless attraction to wild places, special people and extraordinary fish..
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They're noodling around with organic pasta market. (Mrs. Leeper's Pasta): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on September 20, 1993. The length of the article is 1378 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: They're noodling around with organic pasta market. (Mrs. Leeper's Pasta) Author: Penni Crabtree Publication:San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal) Date: September 20, 1993 Publisher: CBJ, L.P. Volume: v14 Issue: n38 Page: p1(2) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Noodling: Hand Grabbing Snapping Turtles
Hand grabbing snapping turtles isn't a practice for the casual outdoorsman It's the sport of rural America Noodling is not "reaching under a log to grab a pond turtle." Rather, it's slithering along a muddy bank as best a man in the water can--and groping the puzzle of undercuts and root systems with your hands to lay hold on a prehistoric-looking reptile. "Noodling--Hand Grabbing Snapping Turtles" is 24 pages immersed in the backwoods' art of finding and hauling in biting and clawing snappers--critters, which dispite their looks, taste good; which grow more than 50 pounds in weight; and which have reputations in some parts for snapping broom handles in two! For close-to-home adventure, order your copy now!.
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Salmon River Backcountry Recollections: And Other Noodling Around
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Noodling with GREEK FOOD.(Food)(Don't worry if you can't find the perfect pasta; pastitsio is delicious made with any macaroni): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on March 2, 2005. The length of the article is 2360 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Noodling with GREEK FOOD.(Food)(Don't worry if you can't find the perfect pasta; pastitsio is delicious made with any macaroni) Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper) Date: March 2, 2005 Publisher: The Register Guard Page: e1 Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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