Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentioned was the fact that the fast was partly due to an American woman, Nila Cram Cook, 22, left a widow by a Greek with a four-year-old son, who last year became Gandhi's disciple, was detailed by him to work among the Harijans (Untouchables) in Bangalore, got into unscrupulous hands, contracted debts and a bad reputation, was recalled...
...telephone. Then they locked themselves in the basement rooms which include the larders and pantries. Friends of the Duchess, made curious by the telephone operator's explanation that Her Grace's telephone had been temporarily suspended, called to investigate. They returned with provisions, helped her cook meals on an oil stove. In the basement the three detectives lurked, presumably living off the fat of the Marlborough larder. For four days Gladys of Marlborough camped...
...public that Andrew Mellon existed. Never before 1921 had the name of Andrew Mellon appeared in a famed newspaper whose motto is "All the News That's Fit to Print!" (N. Y. Times}. The Author- Harvey O'Connor, 36, born in Minneapolis, son of a railway cook, was raised in the Northwest, spent his early years as a journalist for the radical wing of American labor-editor of the Daily Call, International Weekly, Union Record (labor paper)-all in Seattle. In the 1920's he was editor for three years of the journal of the Brotherhood...
Pierre Hamp, proletarian (as opposed to propagandist) author, has had a queer and difficult apprenticeship in his profession. In Kitchen Prelude, the story of his youth, he tells what it was like to be a pastry-cook's helper in Paris, a chef's assistant behind such glittering faqades as Marguery's Restaurant and London's Savoy Hotel...
Hamp's father was a cook who liked his calling. Apprenticed in a Paris patisserie, young Pierre found the work hard and long, the food scanty. But he was a good worker, got ahead. Developing an understanding for the oven, he discovered that he could read while watching it and, un like King Alfred, not burn his cakes. When Anarchist Emile Henry's bomb exploded 50 yards from his cellar workroom (Feb. 12, 1894) it made Hamp begin to wonder whether he wanted to stay a pastry cook all his life...