Word: breakfasts
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Marcia Heuber's world is one of seasons and crops, dawn-to-dusk farm chores, the kitchen and children in a rambling farmhouse near Malta, Ill. She gets up at 4:30 a.m. most of the year, and by 10 a.m. she has prepared breakfast for her husband and four children, fed and watered the chickens, and washed the first of three loads of laundry. Then she puts in a full day in the fields, helping to sort pigs and cattle, unloading hay bales and gathering the six dozen eggs she sells daily. She drives a tractor, spreads manure...
This might seem like indentured housewifery to some women, but not to Lauretta Galligan, who at 52 still rises at 6:30 to prepare her husband's breakfast and get the two sons remaining at home off to school. She smiles happily when her husband Thomas, who is now president of Boston Edison Co., calls her his "greatest asset...
...left before McGovern and drove over to Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge (where, incidentally, McGovern had set up camp) to have some breakfast. We were eating our eggs and muffins when the Senator walked in with his wife and aides, also seeking breakfast. He chose a table in the back of the room, next to ours, but stopped to talk to us for a while as he waited for his small encourage to catch up with...
...last seven years being a kind of Johnny Granola-seed. In 1965, after experimenting with various recipes for granola as a "freelance baker," Gentry developed a formula that he liked and sold it for $3,000 to Sovex Inc. of Collegedale, Tenn. It caught on not only as a breakfast cereal served with milk and fruit, but also as a snack food eaten by itself and as a base for cookies. Since then, Sovex has enlarged its granola operation from a single pizza oven to a 20,000-sq.-ft. bakery plant with a capacity...
...first health food called granola, made with entirely different ingredients from those used in the current product, was developed in the 1870s by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. His brother William K. Kellogg founded the well-known Battle Creek breakfast food company...