Kamp, David.
Summary: One day we woke up and realized that our "macaroni" had become "pasta," that our Wonder Bread had been replaced by organic whole wheat, that sushi was fast food, and that our tomatoes were heirlooms. How did all this happen, and who made it happen? Journalist Kamp chronicles the transformation from the overcooked vegetables and gelatin salads of yore to our current heyday of free-range chickens...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 KAMKamp, David
Summary: "In 1970, in soundstage on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of men and women of various ages and races met to finish the first season of a children's TV program. They had identified a social problem: poor children were entering kindergarten without the learning skills of their middle-class counterparts. They hoped, too, that they had identified a solution: to use television to better...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 KAMShort, Martin
Summary: The actor and comic shares stories from his life that recount his early years with "Saturday Night Live," the development of his numerous characters, his family life, and his celebrity friendships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHORT, MARTIN SHOSummary: When Saturday detention started at Shermer High School, they were simply the Jock, the Princess, the Brain, the Criminal and the Basket Case, but by that afternoon they had become closer than any of them could have imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BREDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015