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Comprehensive Diabetic Cookboo
This comprehensive diabetic cookbook offers 100 nutritionally sound recipes. It provides easy-to-prepare recipes for fruit and vegetable salads, breads, beef, poultry, fish, veal, ground beef, lamb, cheese, eggs, soups, sauces, desserts and beverages.
160 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2005
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About the author
Cheryl Bartlam du Bois
8 books4 followersCheryl DuBois, a woman of myriad talents and background, exemplifies the true Renaissance woman. Her experience, a merger of business and creative endeavors in the marketing and entertainment industries, has armed her with a wealth of knowledge and prepared her for a leadership role within the entertainment industry. In business since the age of seventeen, DuBois has learned what it takes to make a business successful, and her BFA in Fine Arts and Film from VCU & UCLA, has qualified her knowledge in the creative aspect of the entertainment industry.
During school, DuBois worked as an Art Director/Producer for a PBS station offering her talents to the demanding field of children's programming. After graduation DuBois ran her own advertising and marketing firm in the French West Indies for over six years, where she learned the ins and outs of running a business and expanded her skills in many areas of marketing. Upon her return to the U.S. she decided to return to her earlier love, film and television.
In 1986 DuBois began working with Robert Redford at the Sundance Institute in Utah, as assistant marketing director – raising funds for the U.S. Film Festival (aka “Sundance”). This naturally led her into the field of filmmaking where she worked with Mirage Entertainment for the next year in development and funding. Her entrepreneurial instincts however, drove her to strike out on her own with the creation of Feature Finance in 1989 — her own independent film financing and packaging company, which is still raising financing today for projects, books, P&A, entertainment companies, and networks.
In 1989 she moved to Los Angeles to study screenwriting and to pursue the establishment of a strong foothold for Feature Finance in the industry. Since then, DuBois has spent the bulk of her time writing, obtaining product for representation and production, raising money for numerous films, series, and entertainment ventures, and establishing the contacts vital to success in this field. She has developed and sold an impressive list of product over the years.
In 1991 DuBois secured the distribution and the P&A fund for Christopher Lambert's feature films, ‘HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING,’ and ‘KNIGHT MOVES’ and also handled development, acquisitions, and distribution for the distribution companies, InterStar and InterCoast. DuBois also worked in feature development with, Christopher Lambert, and his company LAMB BEAR Entertainment and STTM Productions, for over ten years, developing and producing a slate of films and series.’
DuBois directed her first comedic TV pilot in 1995, ‘MEN ARE FROM PLUTO,’ which she also wrote and produced with Lambert. The pilot premiered in the Slamdance Film Festival at Sundance in 1996 as a short film. DuBois then decided to take time off to write and found the F.O.C.U.S. Institute of Film – a non-profit film Institute, which mentored screenwriters and developed their screenplays for production. DuBois worked as a screenwriting consultant/script doctor for the Institute for six years – developing numerous screenplays with student writers. In 1998 DuBois produced ‘ZERO’ for Dilonra Productions in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
DuBois has written more than twenty feature film screenplays, three dramatic series (one with Ted Kotcheff of ‘LAW & ORDER: SVU’), and has had several published novels – ‘WEST OF THE EQUATOR,’ with Fell Pub, and ‘SOLDIER, SPY, HEROINE,’ with Yucca/Skyhorse Pub. DuBois is also the author of a self-help guide for men — ‘A MAN’S GUIDE TO THE BMW: THE BETTER MAINTAINED WOMAN,’ as well as several self-published books. DuBois and her writing partner for historical fiction have also penned two sequels to ‘SOLDIER, SPY, HEROINE,’ to create a trilogy of female heroines in a time of war – ‘THE REVOLUTION: CAPTAIN, PIRATE, HEROINE,’ and ‘THE REVOLUTION II: SEER, SPY, HEROINE.’ They have adapted the three books as a mini series, which was optioned by, Jon Sheinberg, (‘SILEN
During school, DuBois worked as an Art Director/Producer for a PBS station offering her talents to the demanding field of children's programming. After graduation DuBois ran her own advertising and marketing firm in the French West Indies for over six years, where she learned the ins and outs of running a business and expanded her skills in many areas of marketing. Upon her return to the U.S. she decided to return to her earlier love, film and television.
In 1986 DuBois began working with Robert Redford at the Sundance Institute in Utah, as assistant marketing director – raising funds for the U.S. Film Festival (aka “Sundance”). This naturally led her into the field of filmmaking where she worked with Mirage Entertainment for the next year in development and funding. Her entrepreneurial instincts however, drove her to strike out on her own with the creation of Feature Finance in 1989 — her own independent film financing and packaging company, which is still raising financing today for projects, books, P&A, entertainment companies, and networks.
In 1989 she moved to Los Angeles to study screenwriting and to pursue the establishment of a strong foothold for Feature Finance in the industry. Since then, DuBois has spent the bulk of her time writing, obtaining product for representation and production, raising money for numerous films, series, and entertainment ventures, and establishing the contacts vital to success in this field. She has developed and sold an impressive list of product over the years.
In 1991 DuBois secured the distribution and the P&A fund for Christopher Lambert's feature films, ‘HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING,’ and ‘KNIGHT MOVES’ and also handled development, acquisitions, and distribution for the distribution companies, InterStar and InterCoast. DuBois also worked in feature development with, Christopher Lambert, and his company LAMB BEAR Entertainment and STTM Productions, for over ten years, developing and producing a slate of films and series.’
DuBois directed her first comedic TV pilot in 1995, ‘MEN ARE FROM PLUTO,’ which she also wrote and produced with Lambert. The pilot premiered in the Slamdance Film Festival at Sundance in 1996 as a short film. DuBois then decided to take time off to write and found the F.O.C.U.S. Institute of Film – a non-profit film Institute, which mentored screenwriters and developed their screenplays for production. DuBois worked as a screenwriting consultant/script doctor for the Institute for six years – developing numerous screenplays with student writers. In 1998 DuBois produced ‘ZERO’ for Dilonra Productions in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
DuBois has written more than twenty feature film screenplays, three dramatic series (one with Ted Kotcheff of ‘LAW & ORDER: SVU’), and has had several published novels – ‘WEST OF THE EQUATOR,’ with Fell Pub, and ‘SOLDIER, SPY, HEROINE,’ with Yucca/Skyhorse Pub. DuBois is also the author of a self-help guide for men — ‘A MAN’S GUIDE TO THE BMW: THE BETTER MAINTAINED WOMAN,’ as well as several self-published books. DuBois and her writing partner for historical fiction have also penned two sequels to ‘SOLDIER, SPY, HEROINE,’ to create a trilogy of female heroines in a time of war – ‘THE REVOLUTION: CAPTAIN, PIRATE, HEROINE,’ and ‘THE REVOLUTION II: SEER, SPY, HEROINE.’ They have adapted the three books as a mini series, which was optioned by, Jon Sheinberg, (‘SILEN
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September 7, 2022
The cover states that this story "picks up where 'Don't Stop the Carnival' left off". I wouldn't agree with that entirely. Both books describe the outrageous (and often hilarious) nature of island life, and in both stories the protagonists blunder from one catastrophe to another throughout. That's pretty much where the similarities end.
This book has a lovely cast of characters, is filled with Caribbean absurdities, has it's share of sailing adventure, has a lovely story of self discovery, human kindness, ancestral discovery, a love story, some spirituality, and even a bit of intrigue and a sprinkle of debauchery for kicks. Kind of like real life. In short, this books packs quite a nice punch... rum punch, in fact!
Yes, the footnotes can feel a bit tedious at times, but can be a nice reference on occasion. Also, the manuscript would have benefited from a more diligent editor, but nothing so bad that it detracts from the flow of the story, just an annoyance for detail oriented nut jobs like me.
Note: I do highly recommend reading 'Don't Stop the Carnival' by Herman Wouk, but neither book is dependent upon the other in any way.
This book has a lovely cast of characters, is filled with Caribbean absurdities, has it's share of sailing adventure, has a lovely story of self discovery, human kindness, ancestral discovery, a love story, some spirituality, and even a bit of intrigue and a sprinkle of debauchery for kicks. Kind of like real life. In short, this books packs quite a nice punch... rum punch, in fact!
Yes, the footnotes can feel a bit tedious at times, but can be a nice reference on occasion. Also, the manuscript would have benefited from a more diligent editor, but nothing so bad that it detracts from the flow of the story, just an annoyance for detail oriented nut jobs like me.
Note: I do highly recommend reading 'Don't Stop the Carnival' by Herman Wouk, but neither book is dependent upon the other in any way.
February 20, 2016
This book had great potential. It sounded like a great vacation/beach read. It was NOT. It was SOO wordy; explaining the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again. And then to top it off, there were foot notes at the bottom of the page explaining LAME things (like mast, St. Maartin, spirit guide). If I wasn't sure about a word, I would look it up; that's what dictionaries are for, don't talk down to me in the book.
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