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...White points out that some of the cooking expertise in the African-American community was not happily obtained. "We cooked so much on the plantation and the big house," she says. "We cooked so much in our early days - we cooked for Thomas Jefferson at those wonderful, lavish feasts that he had; we cooked on the Pullman railroad trains. I think we did pretty much the majority of the cooking in this country until the early '50s. Because we do have such a long history of cooking, with the rise of the black bourgeoisie, one of the things that...
...first, those inside lived off stores of food kept by the monks and nuns in residence at the church compound. Just one meal a day was served, at about 2 p.m. One of the civilians appointed himself cook. He had few ingredients to work with: rice, pasta and lentils. When Israeli soldiers brought in additional food for the clerics, they shared it with everyone inside. "They ate what we ate," Salah says, "and in equal portions." Eventually, the monks began stripping the leaves from lemon trees in the courtyard. "We'd make soup out of that, with salt," says Salah...
...seahorse-shaped structure critical to memory). The cells in the limbic system of autistic individuals, Bauman's work shows, are atypically small and tightly packed together, compared with the cells in the limbic system of their normal counterparts. They look unusually immature, comments University of Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Edwin Cook, "as if waiting for a signal to grow...
...that lead to similar end points. And when they do, new ideas for how to prevent or correct autism may quickly materialize. A decade from now, there will almost certainly be more effective forms of therapeutic intervention, perhaps even antiautism drugs. "Genes," as the University of Chicago's Cook observes, "give you targets, and we're pretty good at designing drugs if we know the targets...
...best duck should be—it literally fell apart as we bit into it. The only disappointment on the menu was the rapini ($5), a side dish that resembled broccoli. We couldn’t be sure if the dish also tasted like broccoli, for an overzealous cook burnt it to the point where the taste of charcoal overshadowed any of the other flavors...