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A new edition of the cult cookbook classic, a personal memoir/cookbook that argues cooking and eating by yourself and with loved ones are acts that can change the worldor at least make it a much nicer place. Which is changing the world right there. One meal at a time. Including a new introduction, new inspirations, and new recipes.

"e;Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak[ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure."e; ComicsAlliance"e;Sharp and lively . . . [Madrid] clearly loves this stuff. And he's enough of a historian to be able to trace the ways in which the portrayal of sirens and supergirls has echoed society's ever-changing feelings about women and sex."e;Entertainment Weekly"e;A long overdue tribute to [those] fabulous fighting females."e; Stan LeeMike Madrid has become known as a champion of women in comics and as the expert in Golden Age female characters. And now here is where it all began, as informative and entertaining as ever, in a revised and updated edition, including new illustrations and a new introduction, as well as an afterword bringing us up-to-date on what's happening with women in comics now.Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics; Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics; and the original The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR "e;Best Book To Share With Your Friends"e; and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. A San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, Madrid also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines and is the illustrator of two of The History of Arcadia books: Lily the Silent and The Lizard Princess.

Complex and gripping. . . . Newcomers to Arcadia will be captivated by the rich history, while those familiar with it will find that Sophias legend grants them a new perspective on the earlier tales. Publishers Weekly (starred review)[The Lizard Princess] encourages big-picture thinking. . . . The combination of a straightforward quest complicated by hindsight, with magic, science, and meditations on the building of myths and the role of stories, makes for a book not like much else out there. . . . Gorgeously written and complex. New York Journal of BooksThis fantasy quest lends a hand toward making our contemporary world a little better.Foreword ReviewsThe impressive The Lizard Princess continues Tod Davies' imaginative History of Arcadia series with her trademark brilliant storytelling.Largehearted Boy"e;Look inside this world and find wonder."e;Kate Bernheimer, editor of Fairy Tale Review"e;Blending the magic of fairy tales with the great existential mysteries, Tod Davies leads us into a phantasmagorical world that resurrects the complex lore of times past with vibrant narrative energy."e;Maria Tatar, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales"e;Imaginative."e;Jack Zipes, author of The Irresistible Fairy Tale"e;Innovative form and spellbinding content . . . Stories, as Tod Davies's History of Arcadia novels ultimately suggest, serve as a civilization's backbone, and it is therefore in stories too that we can discover the potential for fundamental change and a better society."e;Marvels & TalesBittersweet. Lush. Human. The Lizard Princess crosses mountains, oceans, deserts, and the Moon Itself to meet her fate and the fate of Arcadia on the Road of the Dead. Her reward is the Key that opens the door to the Domain of Life where wisdom trumps knowledge, as it should in all good tales about the world, whether Arcadia's, or our own.Tod Davies is the author of Snotty Saves the Day and Lily the Silent, the first two books in The History of Arcadia series, as well as the cooking memoirs Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking With What You've Got and Jam Today Too: The Revolution Will Not Be Catered. Unsurprisingly, her attitude toward literature is the same as her attitude toward cookingit's all about working with what you have to find new ways of looking and new ways of being.