Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short-order cook guffawed, going back to his potatoes...
Buddy, the other cook, came from a locale far less revolutionary--Somerville, Mass. He was a local boy who knew when to stay quiet and let his co-worker have the limelight of other people's curiosity...
...only in the economy, but in the natural cycle of living and dying. The janitors of an affluent society, dishwashers feed themselves only through cleaning off the uneaten food of others. They are the highest predators of the biological chain, scavengers for people who don't hunt, gather or cook their meals. Depending on how you look at it, they occupy the highest or lowest rung in a society whose purpose is enjoyment. Their services indispensable for running restaurants, they are the vital link in the economy of hedonistic culture. Civilizations without the affluence and leisure to afford dining...
...prices have risen for all sorts of collector's items, the cash incentive has increased. Rare maps have disappeared from Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. Two years ago, California State University at Long Beach found that 27 volumes of early editions of Captain James Cook's Voyages of Discovery, valued at $30,000, had vanished. At the University of California at Riverside, an instructor was arrested two years ago for making off with 10,500 books, valued at $440,000, over a period of years. Another common prey: 19th century periodicals and plates that...
...Kuumba Singers will perform at the service, organized by Cook's former roommate, Jennifer M. Howard...