My Best Life: An Autobiography by Sakie
Sakie is a twenty-two pound eighteen year old historian, philosopher and dreamer known to her friends and family as a food aficionado. Sensitive, poignant and humorous, she hastens to write her autobiography in her last hours. With details of her escapades with her present family, she shares adventures of her three other lives and the lives of cats she meets that tell their stories as the protagonists that changed history. She begins with her first life as the cherished mau of Ramses II. Her dreams take her to the ill-fated Spanish Armada and Alice’s Wonderland with the Cheshire Cat. In real life she meets the pampered feline of Madame Royale, the black cat that saved Siena from the Plague and the handsome SAR American Tabby who tells the story of his heroic ride during the American Revolution. Her present life is detailed with travel from Miami Beach to Mount Dora and up the magnificent St. John’s River. Each story is followed by historic and modern recipes that create a combination novel and cookbook.
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My Best Life: An Autobiography by Sakie
Sakie is a twenty-two pound eighteen year old historian, philosopher and dreamer known to her friends and family as a food aficionado. Sensitive, poignant and humorous, she hastens to write her autobiography in her last hours. With details of her escapades with her present family, she shares adventures of her three other lives and the lives of cats she meets that tell their stories as the protagonists that changed history. She begins with her first life as the cherished mau of Ramses II. Her dreams take her to the ill-fated Spanish Armada and Alice’s Wonderland with the Cheshire Cat. In real life she meets the pampered feline of Madame Royale, the black cat that saved Siena from the Plague and the handsome SAR American Tabby who tells the story of his heroic ride during the American Revolution. Her present life is detailed with travel from Miami Beach to Mount Dora and up the magnificent St. John’s River. Each story is followed by historic and modern recipes that create a combination novel and cookbook.
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My Best Life: An Autobiography by Sakie

My Best Life: An Autobiography by Sakie

by Valerie Hart
My Best Life: An Autobiography by Sakie

My Best Life: An Autobiography by Sakie

by Valerie Hart

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Overview

Sakie is a twenty-two pound eighteen year old historian, philosopher and dreamer known to her friends and family as a food aficionado. Sensitive, poignant and humorous, she hastens to write her autobiography in her last hours. With details of her escapades with her present family, she shares adventures of her three other lives and the lives of cats she meets that tell their stories as the protagonists that changed history. She begins with her first life as the cherished mau of Ramses II. Her dreams take her to the ill-fated Spanish Armada and Alice’s Wonderland with the Cheshire Cat. In real life she meets the pampered feline of Madame Royale, the black cat that saved Siena from the Plague and the handsome SAR American Tabby who tells the story of his heroic ride during the American Revolution. Her present life is detailed with travel from Miami Beach to Mount Dora and up the magnificent St. John’s River. Each story is followed by historic and modern recipes that create a combination novel and cookbook.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781480815544
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Publication date: 03/23/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 346
File size: 870 KB

About the Author

Valerie Hart, cookbook author (Bounty of Central Florida, New Tradition Cookbook), food and travel journalist, Zagat editor and host of the television show, Back of the House, teaches cooking to benefit charitable causes. Educated in America, Paris and London, she and her husband, Buddy, manufactured and imported traditional furniture from Italy for three decades. Awarded “Outstanding Woman of the Year” in Miami, she lives in Mount Dora, Florida.

Table of Contents

Prologue x

The Bird 1

The Beginning 5

I Discover Who I Am 13

I Am an Egyptian Mau 17

Christopher 33

Time Out 41

My Operation 54

Growing Up 59

Blackie Saves Siena 67

Susan's Home 80

Le Chat de Madame Royale 95

The Revolution 119

Sakie's Adventure in Wonderland 141

Dark Places 156

Electric 160

Sam Returns Home 171

Sakie Visits So-Be 1993 and Ends South Beach 1970 176

Changing Direction 211

Commuting 214

The Spanish Armada 1588 217

Lisbon, Spain - My Great Moments 218

English Channel - The Defeat 221

Storm and Salvation 223

Our Scottish Neighbors 237

Chain of Lakes 245

Teegar - Sar Tabby Cat 260

Emily Geiger's Sar Tabby 266

Sam Sends Freeway 290

Freeway Takes Over 294

Truce 299

Freeway the Great 302

My Grove 306

Predictable Sakie 317

The Bird 321

Epilogue 325

Postscript 3430 CE 326

Recipe Index 329

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