From the Stacks: May 4, 2007
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week in 'From the Stacks.' Check in every Friday for the latest
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I'm not sure what I
expected to encounter in
The Wonder Bread Cookbook, a collection
of fluffy white-bread creations published by
Ten Speed
Press, but I wound up enchanted by recipes for cr?pes,
strudel, asparagus rolls, and other surprising Wonder-based
snacks. (It doesn't hurt that the book's chic food photography
makes you drool over unlikely concoctions like Wonder Beef Cups
and Tropical Wonder Casserole.) The recipes are drawn from the
Wonder archives and from nationwide submissions, and some of
them are charmingly out-there: The Wonder Easter Egg Sandwich,
which calls for butter, bread, and chocolate-covered, coconut
candy eggs, is one sweet-toothed family's Easter tradition.
There's also a fun little discussion of Wonder's history,
recounting the company's successes -- sliced bread, anyone? --
and acknowledging a few misfires, like the Wonder Round sandwich
bread that unfortunately never took off. -- Danielle
Maestretti
The NACLA Report on the Americas is
dedicated to unraveling the complex relationships at play
throughout the Americas. The bimonthly magazine takes its eponymous
acronym from the North American Congress on Latin America, a New
York-based nonprofit that disseminates information on US-Latin
American relations and social issues throughout the region. The
latest issue (May/June) includes a multilayered analysis of
American immigration, profiling the efforts of the for-profit
prison system in the United States to cash in on immigrant
detentions, as well as the myths and realities of immigrant day
laborers, the lasting effects of last year's immigration protests,
and the anti-immigration group, the Minutemen. The publication, now
in its 40th year, is geared toward activists, scholars,
policymakers, students, and journalists, and purports to be 'the
most widely read English-language publication on Latin America.' It
also earned an
Utne Independent Press Award for Best International
Coverage last year. -- Natalie Hudson