Hendersonville & Flat Rock
An Intimate Tour
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HENDERSONVILLE & FLAT ROCK
An Intimate Tour
ISBN: 978-1-59629-265-9
WHATEVER YOUR ACQUAINTANCE WITH WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, you will discover within these pages a trove of regional treasures. Newcomers, longtime residents, natives and visitors alike will delight in the many highlights of this alluring corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in one of our country’s most breathtaking, celebrated areas.
With a warm, insightful style, Ruscin takes you on a journey to the early nineteenth century, when the city of Hendersonville and the village of Flat Rock were beginning to blossom in their roles as beloved North Carolina destinations. Meet the founding fathers and their descendants. Explore historic homes and churches. Discover the fascinating details of Henderson County’s stately courthouse and Hendersonville’s train depot, and tour a farmstead in the heart of the county. Then, return to the present with stunning photography and revel in all that the region offers today from Hendersonville and Flat Rock to nearby mountain villages like Saluda, Brevard and Highlands.
What others are saying:
Terry Ruscin deeply senses the pulse-beat of a small southern town that has drawn him into it… And from the start, he has seemed one of us.
—Louise H. Bailey, Henderson County historian, author, columnist
From the early days of our founding fathers through present-day times, Ruscin vividly describes the people and places of his adopted Blue Ridge. An excellent work!
—Frank L. FitzSimons Jr., President, Golden Glow Publishing
Terry Ruscin brings a fresh eye and enthusiasm to his new hometown in the mountains of North Carolina. His insightful view of people and places shines a new light on the familiar and offers a look at the unfamiliar.
—Kitty Turner, former lifestyles editor, Hendersonville Times-News
Ruscin imparts a deep passion for history to his stories about the people and places of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
—Licia Gaut-Correll, former editor, Mountain Traditions magazine
Order Hendersonville & Flat Rock: An Intimate Tour through your local bookstore or through the publisher at www.historypress.net or Amazon.com.
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DINING & WHINING
Commiseration
and
Celebration
For Gastro-snobs
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DINING & WHINING
Commiseration
and
Celebration
For Gastro-snobs
ISBN: 1-4137-5326-4
DO YOU CRINGE when your waiter asks, “Still workin’ on that?” Drop your jaw when a server refers to women as “you guys?” Glaze over when the waitress recites each special dish ad nauseam? If these and other culinary faux pas offend you, Terry Ruscin—author of Taste for Travel—serves up hilarious commiseration in this handbook for fellow gastro-snobs as he dines, wines and whines his way through gustatory adventures and misadventures. In his quest for cures for the dumbing of America and numbing of the palate, Ruscin samples restaurants from San Diego, Calif., to Hendersonville, N.C., and all between and then finds mostly commendable fetes in Europe. In the end, Ruscin consults Brent Michael Kaufman, the “Table Doctor,” and provides a critique form.
Topics include:
• From two martinis to iced tea
• Doin’ Eye-talian in America (Yo!)
• Snatching up plates prematurely
• Farcical trends
• Coffee factoids
• The expected tip
• Lies your menu told you
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• Do you really want to know
your waiter’s name?
• “Can I start you off with…?”
• Dirty dining
• Partaking aloft (pass the barf bag)
• No free lunch
• Contraband soup
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So, turn up your nose, brace your palate and travel along as the author disses, but occasionally deifies, dining in America. Between courses, Ruscin balances his banquet of grievances with sublime cuisine. In the end, you will learn how much to tip and when not to if the event of dining out leaves you whining.
What others are saying:
At times, it’s clear that Ruscin found himself on a bit of a fool’s errand, searching for that elusive and rare ideal—a well-oiled machine of a restaurant where everything and everyone function smoothly, and the server doesn’t ask, “Still workin’ on that?” Ultimately, he found some solace in such restaurants as Berkeley’s Chez Panisse and Hendersonville’s (N.C.) Inn on Church. But along the way, Ruscin found a country rampant with culinary blunders and contradictions. In Ruscin's opinion, maintaining a poorly trained wait staff is the greatest culinary faux pas a restaurant can make.
—from “Gastro-snob Manifesto” by Mackensy Lunsford, Critic, Mountain Xpress, Asheville
Dining & Whining is a must-read book for the food industry.
—Chef2Chef
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LOS DUENDES
A Nostalgic Journey
through Spain
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LOS DUENDES
A Nostalgic Journey
through Spain
ISBN: 1-4137-1435-8
NOT SINCE James A. Michener’s Iberia, has a book grasped Spain’s duendes. Until now….
Now you can experience Spain’s treasures, cultural events, museums, national parks, palaces, castles, inns and restaurants as you travel through Spain’s diverse regions, probing, tasting, discovering and savoring fragrances, textures and visual feasts.
The author is not Spanish, though many Spaniards tell him he has the Spanish heart and duende—an anachronism he analyzes in Spain and defines in this book. Ruscin brings his passion for all things Spanish to the story, from fiery flamenco to pulsing paseos to astounding landscapes.
From Ávila to Zaragoza, you will discover sleepy villages to throbbing metropolises as Ruscin takes you beyond the tourist zone in this riveting travelogue. From first visitors to Spain to bona fide Hispanophiles, Los Duendes proffers a riveting armchair adventure or travel book or both—a real guts and soul tour of mystical Spain.
Travelers to Spain will glow with nostalgia. Those who have not experienced Spain will be on the next flight after reading this book.
What others are saying:
Terry Ruscin takes Spain by storm, capturing the souls and the duendes that surround him, then serves them up in this must-read memoir. Imbued with a Don Quixote spirit, Ruscin’s lyrical phrases sound like a chant to the Spanish soul, be they reflected in persons with whom he speaks, in stones he touches, or in food he savors. You need not have duende to find the love story; the romance is all between the lines….
—Dr. Carlos Vallbona, Houston, TX
Duende is hard to describe, even for those who have the gift, and is even more difficult to convey in writing. Terry Ruscin has the gift and the ability to share his sense to us. Los Duendes is a book that may be even more effective than an actual visit in giving you a deep understanding of the history, character and culture of the various regions of Spain and the people therein…. For $29.95, you’ll never get closer to Spain without actually going there.
—Ed Nielson, Book reviewer, Prime Times!
Order Los Duendes through your local bookstore or through the publisher at www.publishamerica.com, or through www.amazon.com.
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TASTE FOR TRAVEL
A Trilogy of
Gastronomic Adventures:
Great Britain, France, Italy |
TASTE FOR TRAVEL
A Trilogy of
Gastronomic Adventures:
Great Britain, France, Italy
ISBN: 1-4107-5021-3 (Hardcover)
1-4017-5022-1 (Paperback)
IF YOU ENJOYED Peter Mayle’s “Provence” books and Frances Mayes’s “Tuscany” series, you will love Taste for Travel. This is a treat for those looking for travel experiences that are out-of-the-ordinary, along with food and wine that are out-of-this-world. Rich in anecdotes and research, the appetizing read supplies a banquet of epicurism and sublime depictions of regional landscapes.
Focusing on three European countries, Taste for Travel caters an ardent passion for Europe with a pinch of humor and a generous sprinkling of gastronomic and historical tidbits from:
• England’s Cotswold villages, Devon and Cornwall
• France’s Burgundy and Provence
• Italy’s northern lakes and Umbrian hill towns
Whether you are a seasoned traveler or armchair tourist, Taste for Travel will serve you well. Bon voyage and bon appétit!
Available in hardcover or paperback. Order through your local bookstore, directly through the publisher at 1.888.280.7715 or www.authorhouse.com, or through www.amazon.com.
What others are saying:
I am falling in love, savoring every morsel…the writing is filled with color and flavor…I see it, smell it, taste it…. You carried me there! …Marvelous food knowledge, great eccentricity….
—Lena Tabori, President, Welcome Enterprises, Inc.
The writing is beautiful…it captured me riding across the moors of England….
—Charles Leocha, President, World Leisure Corporation
Ruscin approaches European travel with a protégé’s enthusiasm, an artist’s sensibility and in the end, a gourmet’s palate.
—Sue Diaz, Author-Columnist
Ruscin’s passages are stunning pictures to be savored as heartily as the meals he will seduce you into enjoying. His is an uncanny ability, inviting the reader to touch what he describes through his fascination with textures and flavors, from foie gras and rare Cabernet to ancient stones, tapestries, waves panting under the power of lunar sway.
—Alice Jue, Forecross Corporation
Order Taste for Travel through your local bookstore or through the publisher at www.authorhouse.com or www.amazon.com.
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MISSION MEMOIRS
A Collection of Photographs, Illustrations and
Late Twentieth-century Reflections
on California’s Past |
MISSION MEMOIRS
A Collection of Photographs, Illustrations and
Late Twentieth-century Reflections
on California’s Past
ISBN: 0-932653-30-8
ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE comes a book as magnificent as Mission Memoirs. Author-historian-photographer Terry Ruscin brings a lush visual sensibility to this handsome collection of words and images commemorating the California missions. Featuring vintage and contemporary photographs, Mission Memoirs invites the reader to experience historic sites as they once were. Illustrations provide another rare glimpse of details often overlooked or now inaccessible to the public.
Mission Memoirs is a beautifully produced coffee-table book in an elegant oversize format (13.5" x 11") with translucent tip-ins and more than 250 full-color and sepia-tone photographs.
The text weaves together keen personal observations with an abundance of historical facts, based on years of research and interviews. The book offers a balanced view of native Californians and mission friars and is the only mission book embodying detailed information about all of the related asistencias (satellites or assistant missions) and presidio sites. Additionally, some of the historic estancias (mission ranch outposts) are covered. Purchase of the book supports restoration and preservation of the missions through the Mervyn’s Foundation.
Mission Memoirs will be welcomed by all those intrigued by the romance—as well as the drama and sacrifice of this vibrant chapter of California’s past.
Mission Memoirs:
Winner, 2000 Benjamin Franklin Award
Winner, “Art Book of the Year” 2000, San Diego Magazine
Winner, Rounce & Coffin Awards, and one of only 27 other titles to tour the Western United States in Rounce & Coffin’s Western Books Exhibition, 2000
Permanent Collections: UCSD Library
Permanent Collections: James S. Copley Library
What people are saying:
A loving tribute.
—Westways magazine
The best coffee-table book I have seen on the subject.
—Michael Manwaring, Designer, San Francisco
A pictorial feast for American history buffs.
—Today’s Librarian
Literally stunning and yes, beautiful photography… the text is mesmerizing, and certainly as memorable, as the pictures.
—On the Road, John Clayton, KKGO Radio 105.1 FM
A grand book for anyone, young or adult, to study, to browse and to admire.
—George Brand, Plus magazine
When I read this book, I cried.
—Don DeNevi, Book Reviewer, Palo Alto Daily News
All in all, this is a beautiful work of art, intelligently presented and organized.
—Sasha Honig, Reviewer, California Missions Studies Association
Ruscin’s extraordinary photographs perfectly capture California’s missionary heritage.
—Eilene Zimmerman, San Diego Magazine
Lavishly produced collections of professional photographs and illustrations.
—James A. Sandos, Farquhar Professor of the Southwest, University of Redlands
Terry Ruscin has produced a classic work.
—Tom Lewis, Editorial and Design Director, Tehabi Books
Mission Memoirs ranks as my all-time favorite and I have given dozens of copies as gifts.
—Sir Richard Menn, Diocesan Curator, Carmel and Monterey, Calif.
A fitting tribute to the California missions and a stunning pictorial display of their artistic value.
—Diane E. Watson, Congress of the United States, House of Representatives
Order Mission Memoirs through your local bookstore or through the publisher at www.sunbeltpub.com or www.amazon.com. |
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