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With two ovens and two huge hot plates protected by the hallmark round insulated covers, the Aga has outwardly remained unchanged from Dalén's original design. However, there is now a four-oven version, and an add-on module with two conventional ovens. The castings for the Aga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aga Keeps On Cookin' | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Flick through the pages of celebrity magazines like Hello! and OK!, and there'll often be an Aga somewhere behind all that lip gloss. Its cachet is gold-plated: royal country houses are equipped with Agas, Mel Gibson is a fan, and Tony Blair used to have an Aga before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aga Keeps On Cookin' | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

The adroitly marketed Aga lifestyle comes complete with dedicated cookery books, special cast- iron kitchenware in some of the cooker's eight standard colors, expensive training courses given by chefs and cooks around the country, and even a quarterly magazine with proud owners' photographs of Agas in the bosom of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aga Keeps On Cookin' | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Such difficulties failed to deter 7,000 new owners last year, 80% of them in Britain. Aga-Rayburn's managing director Geoff Harrop wants to see a push for the American market, where some 10,000 Agas already have homes and around 400 are sold every year. France and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aga Keeps On Cookin' | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

In his headlong pride, Captain Michales, singlehanded, routs a band of Turkish agas (military overlords) from their favorite coffeehouse. For this scandal, a handsome, virile Turk named Nuri Bey takes revenge by killing Captain Michales' brother. But the brother, with the last dying thrust of his dagger, emasculates Nuri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fate of a Hero | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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