The Rasta Cookbook: Vegetarian Cuisine Eaten With the Salt of the Earth : Recipes

By David Elliott

Book Overview

Jeremy Cabbage is an orphan stuck at Harpwitch's Home for Mean Dogs, Ugly Cats, and Strey Children, where the dogs are treated better than the kids. And things aren't much better on the outside: the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865431337
• ISBN13: 9780865431331
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Africa World Pr
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Down with the Baron!

"Take a liberal base of Dickens, throw in a healthy helping of Dahl and spice with a bit of Margo Lanagan, and you might approximate the recipe that yielded this fey little fantasy." -Kirkus Reviews Okay, that is cheating! You can't say that a book is a mix of things. There is not recipe for a sublime story. Besides, this quote is missing a few key ingredients. For example-- Orphans, an abandoned baby found in a box of cabbages, a brave girl that is mother to them all, betrayal, separation, an entrancing cigarette-smoking abomination of a woman, a claustrophobic treasure hunt, tyranny, revolt, totalitarian pomposity, clowns, women coming out of canons, human dictionaries and above all --COMPLETE MADCAP UNBRIDLED OPTIMISM. It is 200+ pages of quadruped delights!

I Loved it!!!!!

What makes a family? This is only one of the questions that David Elliott seems to be asking in Jeremy Cabbage and the Living Museum of Human Oddballs. There are others, too: What is the definition of tolerance? What are the qualities that make a hero? (In Jeremy's case, rather than the knuckle-bearing, weapon-toting figures we hold up as models for boys today, it is keeping a steadfast heart.) But these important questions are asked subtly, embedded in a rollicking adventure that is both heart-warming and, at times, hilarious. Filled with a cast of eccentric, lovable characters, and with enough villians to make us curl our lips (in one case, one can't help but ask: Was Elliott thinking of a certain foolish but dangerous ego-driven President when he was writing the Baron?) Jeremy Cabbage would make a wonderful read aloud for any classroom or family. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be sorry when you've finished.

"EVERYBODY DESERVES TO BE HAPPY"

A bit droll. A bit daffy. A lot of enjoyment. In other words, another story by the imaginative, irrepressible David Elliott. We meet Jeremy Cabbage, an orphan and resident of Harpwitch's Home for Mean Dogs, Ugly Cats and Strey Children (Ms. Harpwitch did not spell well). The day comes when he is adopted but rather than being clasped to the ample bosom of his new mother (and few bosoms are ampler), he hears, "Yeah, he's kinda scrawny but he'll do." That doesn't bode too well for Jeremy nor does his return to the Home and the adoptions that follow, including the pair that simply wanted an au pair for their sick goldfish. Jeremy really misses Polly who cared for him after finding him, an abandoned infant in a crate of cabbages. However, they were separated when a city ordered raid gathered up all orphan children. The city is Metropolis and it is ruled by a heartless man, Baron Ignatius von Strompie. Jeremy wonders where Polly is, if she was taken to a place as horrible as Harpwitch's Home. At last, there's a ray of light when Jeremy is adopted again - this time by human clowns or cloons as the Baron has dubbed them because he detests everything different. And these clowns or cloons are unique in Metropolis because they're happy and they make people laugh. - anathema to the Baron and he vows to get rid of them. What chance do Jeremy and the cloons have against such power? Will he ever see Polly again? With fond memories of Elliott's Roscoe Wizzle (2004) this reader adds the irresistible Jeremy Cabbage to my list of favorite characters. Enjoy! - Gail Cooke