Davis, Camas
Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, CAMAS DAVHasheider, Philip
Contents: Muscles are meat -- Knives and other equipment -- Beef, bison, and veal -- Sheep, lambs, and goats -- Pork -- Poultry and other fowl -- Venison, moose, elk, and big game -- Rabbits, other small game, and fish -- Meat byproducts and food preservation -- Meat curing and smoking -- Sausages -- Building a butchering business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2010
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Summary: "Expert Philip Hasheider shows you how to turn your hard-earned hunt into delicious cuisine. Truly avid hunters are always looking for ways to get the most out of their game and maximize their yield. Look no further: this book offers essential tips and background information, as well as coveted recipes, for hunters, chefs, and food lovers alike. The Hunter's Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.25 HASLaFrieda, Pat
Summary: "It all began when Pat LaFrieda's great-grandfather Anthony LaFrieda decided to pack up and move his family from Italy to New York in search of a better life, setting up the family's first retail butcher shop in 1922 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Almost one hundred years later, Pat LaFrieda, a fourth-generation butcher and third-generation meat purveyor, is at the helm of a family-run business that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 LAFHicks, Micah Dean
Summary: "Almost everyone in Swine Hill is haunted. Jane's ghost tells her what everyone around her is thinking, even when she doesn't want to know. The lonely spirit possessing her mother burns anyone she touches. Her brother Henry's genius ghost forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. When pig people appear in town, taking precious jobs at the pork processing plant and enraging the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICWaldron, Jamie
Summary: All-in-one resource for processing meat, for the finest and freshest cuts. Gone are the days when butchering was only trusted to someone at the local supermarket. An essential introduction to the art of butchering, this is a hands-on, how-to guide for anyone who wants to save money and have greater control over the quality of meat they consume. Readers will discover how to fine-tune their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FASGilligan, Ruth
Summary: "Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter. The Butchers' Blessing moves between the events of 1996 and the present, offering a simmering glimpse into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILMettler, John J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1986
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Summary: Humane slaughtering and efficient butchering will give you the best return on the cattle you process, and Adam Danforth's comprehensive manual guides you through every step.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2014
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Summary: The author takes readers on a walking tour of Portland, Oregon, revealing the city's quirky, cheap, and wild side as he visits unusual museums, offbeat annual festivals, scenes of ghostly hauntings, and strange local customs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Journeys 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A realistic drama depicting students at a Portland, Oregon high school before and during a tragic school shooting. Follows a young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch. Then follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then the other of the two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, who arrive inside the school and begin shooting. No...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILSummary: After a young skateboarder accidentally kills a security guard in self-defense with his skateboard at Paranoid Park, he falls into a world of crime, guilt, and fear. He desperately attempts to get out as the investigation into the crime deepens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARBledsoe, Lucy Jane
Summary: Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX--the law that bans discrimination based on gender--so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLESummary: "Wildsam explores the Rose City alongside a few of our favorite Portland writers, chefs, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and change makers. Rain or shine, we love the Oregon epicenter of creative thought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.954 PORTLAND WILSummary: Each episode's character-based shorts draw viewers into 'Portlandia,' the dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon. Season one inhabitants include: the owners of a feminist bookstore; a militant bike messenger; an artsy couple who attach cut-outs of birds to everything ('put a bird on it!'); an organic farmer who turns out to be a cult leader; and a couple negotiating a safe word to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORMargolin, Phillip
Summary: One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Margolin 2014Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILSummary: A sketch-comedy series that parodies life in Portland, Oregon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unobstructed View Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The hit sketch comedy driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon--where '90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017