Word: cooking
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...raucous clientele, whom he sees as symptomatic of Japan's loss of discipline and economic leadership. What he doesn't see is the conspiracy that will lead to his own professional disgrace. The other fixture is Watanabe, the bar's introverted 19-year-old cook. He lives inside a fantasy in which he has been endowed with the ability to see through walls, intercept thoughts, and even read bodily functions - powers he knows will be needed to save Mary from danger. "Mary impregnates the air with oxytocin, a hormone conducive to trust and uterine contraction," he observes as she chats...
...years back, Sauri's residents cooked with locally collected wood, but the decline in the number of trees has left the area bereft of sufficient fuel. Villagers said that they now buy pieces of fuel wood in Yala or Muhanda, a bundle of seven sticks costing around 30˘. Not only are seven sticks barely enough to cook one meal, but for a lack of 30˘, many villagers had in fact reverted to cooking with cow dung or to eating uncooked meals...
...year of Huckleberry Finn’s publication, Rawles’ book relates the life of Jim’s remarkably resilient wife, Sadie Watson, a slave who works as a healer and a cook, among other things, as she passes between owners in the antebellum South. It is framed, plausibly, if not very originally, as a story Sadie tells to her granddaughter Marianne Libre, while, in the grand tradition of Penelope, Scheherazade and, more recently, Winona Ryder’s Finn Dodd, they make a kind of memory quilt...
...treat the visitor as a family member, meting out both chores and hugs. The students come with health insurance and spending money. Some affluent empty nesters treat their kids to travel and other goodies, but hosts don't have to spend much, says Inge Gabel. "I always cook for more than two anyway," she says, "and we live near Niagara Falls and take all our kids there...
...black students in most of my high school classes. My life has been a compromise of cultures that didn’t always mesh well. Jamaican culture, sometimes to my parents’ dismay, has not always won the fight. I don’t know how to cook the meals that remind me of home. I like to shop more than I like to do most things. And when I go to Jamaica my younger cousins mock my American “twang,” telling me that I sound just like the people on MTV. Wouldn?...