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Mollie Katzen, renowned vegetarian chef and author of eight cook books, attended meetings of the Roundtable, introducing new recipes and workshops to Harvard’s dining staff over the summer...
...Dial-an-appliance ... enables a housewife who is downtown shopping to start dinner before she starts home; she simply telephones her home, then by dialing additional digits turns on the oven and sets it to cook the roast...
...COOK AS FAST...
...most compelling when depicting the circumscribed lives of the women in Khan's family. Bright and vivacious Leila, 19, who has work-worn hands and a vitamin D deficiency because she rarely sees sunlight, speaks English and dreams of becoming a teacher, but her lot in life is to cook and clean for family members. Seierstad confesses that the treatment of the women challenged her goal to stay out of the story. "I have rarely been as angry as I was with the Khan family," she writes. For Seierstad, staying silent may have taken as much resolve as the many...
...Smithsonian owns the desk on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but my thoughts keep wandering back to that recipe. Jefferson bothered to find the recipe from a French acquaintance, to write it down, to keep it in good condition and to give it to his cook back in Virginia. While it may seem a small item, it demonstrates that even in the midst of the history-changing events he was engaged in, Jefferson still maintained his attention to detail, his level of attachment to France and his commitment to preserving what, to him, was the essence of experiencing...