[PDF] Food Females And Rails eBook

Author : Jane M. Weissman
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2022-03-02
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You don't have to be a rail fan to enjoy this book. From transportation to communications and hospitality to innovation, women have not received the attention and credit they deserve in the history of the American railroad. In uniforms or overalls or working in isolated train depots or carrying the torch for workers' rights, all were gutsy gals who made a difference. Food, Females and Rails introduces some of the determined, intelligent women and tells the stories through narrative and images of the contributions they made. Trains gave women freedom of mobility, whether they worked for the railroads or were passengers. Trains took women beyond their geographic boundaries and their restrictive cultural expectations. In some cases, it was the train that gave the woman the opportunity to travel on her own and work in jobs where she could prove her capabilities. But these women were often marginalized and suffered the indignity of lower pay than their male counterparts, relegation to stereotypical domestic jobs, exclusion from union membership, and unjustified condemnation. Learn the lost stories of women inventors such as Olive Wetzel Dennis and Mary Engle Pennington. Enjoy a virtual meal with the Harvey Girls and the Grill Car Girls. Read about Phoebe Snow's jingles and Nellie Bly's race around the world. Get to know the women who shaped train travel.

Author : Jeri Quinzio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1442227338

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In roughly one hundred years – from the 1870s to the 1970s – dining on trains began, soared to great heights, and then fell to earth. The founders of the first railroad companies cared more about hauling freight than feeding passengers. The only food available on trains in the mid-nineteenth century was whatever passengers brought aboard in their lunch baskets or managed to pick up at a brief station stop. It was hardly fine dining. Seeing the business possibilities in offering long-distance passengers comforts such as beds, toilets, and meals, George Pullman and other pioneering railroaders like Georges Nagelmackers of Orient Express fame, transformed rail travel. Fine dining and wines became the norm for elite railroad travelers by the turn of the twentieth century. The foods served on railroads – from consommé to turbot to soufflé, always accompanied by champagne - equaled that of the finest restaurants, hotels, and steamships. After World War II, as airline travel and automobiles became the preferred modes of travel, elegance gave way to economy. Canned and frozen foods, self-service, and quick meals and snacks became the norm. By the 1970s, the golden era of railroad dining had come grinding to a halt. Food on the Rails traces the rise and fall of food on the rails from its rocky start to its glory days to its sad demise. Looking at the foods, the service, the rail station restaurants, the menus, they dining accommodations and more, Jeri Quinzio brings to life the history of cuisine and dining in railroad cars from the early days through today.

Author : John Pitt
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 184162389X

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The American train journey has always had a strong hold on the imagination. Ever-changing landscapes pass by on the other side of the glass, from the primeval-looking Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert and the saw-toothed peaks of the Rocky Mountains to the pounding surf of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. And in these ecologically-conscious times, rail travel offers a peace of mind that cannot be matched by a stressful domestic flight.Now in its eighth edition, this book covers all the major routes across the United States and Canada. Perfect for the well-planned traveller and the whimsical day-dreamer alike, it contains both practical information and background on the places that you'll see. Whatever the route, sit back, relax and watch a breathtaking continent unfold.37 long distance routes in the USA and CanadaSightseeing highlights for 38 major citiesAccommodation - cheap to chicArea maps and detailed route plansHistory of trains in North AmericaInformation about steam railways and museums

Author : Julia Vellucci
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9390510473

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Mary Jess Parker, better-known as Jess as she’s no Mary, married a rich man for his money, cheated on him several times with far too many men to count, including their dishwasher, for two years. When the rich man finds out, Jess isn’t just kicked out of the house but is forced to drink a cup of oil due to her husband’s family using something similar to that during their railroad construction. However, this oil isn’t normal and makes her invisible from all pretty faces, and only seen by those that feel as lonely and invisible as her husband, who she can only divorce if she breaks the curse. This broken girl is given two and a half years to find love, the real, genuine kind, if she wants to be seen by everyone again. Jess soon begins to learn that no one has ever truly seen her before until she meets a man from her past, a train conductor that almost hits her with his train, Jaxson Smith. He’s just as much of a mess as she remembered, due to his wife’s passing and now being a single dad as he had a daughter with another woman, who isn’t in the picture. Love can be a dangerous battlefield with two very broken people, full of beauty and beasts within. When two very broken people manage to build each other back up and break the curse, can their love survive those that don’t really see them as they see each other or will it die like the fallen rose petals in the beloved fairytale?