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...Cold? Thirsty? He has that ability to bend himself to the space he's in and instantly adjust to the group he's with." So I wondered, Can George Clooney possibly be a guest? Or is that just against the natural order of things? And what would I even cook? All his assistant would say was, "He'll eat whatever is cooking...
...shaped table. She hurries the ministers briskly along, rarely allowing any departures from the agenda. When Parliament is in session, she spends the mornings with her staff readying for question time, that twice-weekly exercise in which the Prime Minister fields queries, and often insults, from opposition M.P.s. A cook is brought in on question days to prepare what Thatcher calls "good nursery food" (shepherd's pie, or perhaps a stew), and the staff works until 2:30 p.m., when the Prime Minister leaves for Parliament in her bulletproof black Daimler...
...concrete slabs and thin aluminum sheets that seem no sturdier than cardboard, there is no heat, no water, and the workers, around 400 in all, sometimes live four to a room. It is freezing in the winter, stifling in the summer. Most of the workers are men. They cook their evening meals on small electric water heaters and, during summer and fall, after work they sit outside and smoke or play cards and drink beer; it's a hard life, and the workers find diversions wherever they can. One day last winter when our house was under construction, I noticed...
...They do a good job,” Herrera said of his brothers, who used to cook in the Cambridge taqueria...
...Inside Harvard’s ivy-covered gates, the couple is on the same high-up rang of the academic ladder, but it’s a different story in the kitchen: “[Homi’s] the cook,” Jacqueline insists. “I’m basically the sous chef...