Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Versatile Soybean. Yankee salesmanship is changing many eating and cooking habits around the world. U.S. promoters have introduced the doughnut to Africa and Asia, spread the benefits of milk to the Middle East and Latin America, made wheat a popular substitute for rice in the Japanese diet. They have increased grain sales to Italy by showing Italians how to mix American wheat into their pastas, amazed European housewives (many of whom now work and have less time to cook) with packaged mixes that produce effortless cakes, pies, mashed potatoes, cheese dips and even pizzas. One of the fastest-growing exports...
...enough for two in Upper Bohemia, so Leonard turned to part-time journalism ("the opiate of the artist; eventually it poisons his mind and his art") and other odd jobs to help pay the bills. But in those golden pre-World War I days, even young socialists supported a cook and maid. For the Woolfs there were also to be such contingent expenses as the four nurses required during Virginia's breakdowns...
...Belgian Village's crepe-suzette shop where a Grand Marniered pancake costs 75?, or India's chicken pakora and clay-oven-baked bread (45?) served on the lawn by a turbaned chef. International Plaza, a noisy cluster of small shops and food stands, offers a culinary Cook's Tour that takes only a few steps. Colombian tacos (75?) can be washed down with Philippine beer (70?), Ecuadorian banana dogs (50?) with Brazilian coffee (15?), Tunisian nougatine (45?) with Indian tea (free), North African bricka (65?) with Norwegian loganberry punch (40?). Although the Vatican has yet to provide...
Well Connected. Powering A.E.P.'s drive is President Donald Cook, 55, a financial expert who also has a lively interest in sales, technology, law and government. He works at his job ten hours a day in his Manhattan office and another three hours at home, frequently tours his bailiwick; last week he was off on a Cook's tour of facilities in Indiana and Virginia. An ardent advocate of private power, he believes that cutting costs and passing the savings on to consumers is a form of public service. As it happens, he is also well connected...
...Cook came to A.E.P. in 1953 from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he had worked up from financial analyst to chairman under Harry Truman. Along the way, he earned two law degrees from George Washington University, became a C.P.A., and struck up a close friendship with a young Congressman, Lyndon Johnson. When Johnson became a Senator, he drafted Cook to become counsel to his famed Senate Preparedness subcommittee. Said Johnson then: "He's rough, but he's fair. I don't think there's an abler man in Government." Don Cook...