Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This long-experienced camp cook would like to know the Dulles' magic secret of producing Cordon Bleu menus in such "Thoreau-going" surroundings. A six-course dinner to please the most discriminating gourmet bubbles away on the old-fashioned stove in the time it takes me to open a can of pork and beans. If F. & J. can clean up the mess afterward-unaided by plumbing or electricity-the mess of the Middle East is in safe and efficient hands...
...That fancy dinner is cooked on a stove using bottled gas. F. & J. sometimes cook food over an open fire, but the stove is used for elaborate meals...
...only drove the Japanese away, but gave him candy, bully beef and rides in their trucks, until it was time for them to go home. One night in August 1946 Bas Wie thought of his old friends again as he nursed the raw bruise on his belly where the cook had, as he did so often, just kicked...
...intuitive sense and a strong constitution. Breakfast is a cup of coffee (with cream for added nourishment) and a ten-cent side order of buttered toast. (Harold watches with a surly vigilance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...
...Khan, found Woburn Abbey crumbling from neglect. For two years the couple painted and repaired, rummaged through rooms of stored ancestral treasures. The duke stopped at nothing to advertise his place. He snapped up every TV offer, lectured women's clubs on how to cook venison ("Had to study up for that one"), gave his butler's services as a prize on a U.S. TV show, even invited Marilyn Monroe to spend a night in the bed used by Charles I. His unabashed huckstering paid off. In 1955 an imposing 199,647 visitors went to Woburn. Last year...