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...CookShop program, running this semester in three elementary schools in New York City, students prepare a different healthy dish each week--most recently, fried rice with green beans, red peppers, mushrooms and more--and exchange letters with local farmers. "This is different from the fried rice I've had before," said a beaming Jose Gonzalez, 8, at P.S. 38 in East Harlem during a CookShop session last week. "Normally it doesn't have all these vegetables." The lesson seems to be sinking in: students in the CookShop program are more likely to pick healthier meals at the cafeteria...
Etonians use relatively little slang, get most of it from Latin. Some Etonisms: bumble (small beer with raisins), furk (an illegal football kick), lush (sweets), nant (a swimmer), pec (money-from pe-cunia), Pop (famed Eton society, from popina, a cookshop, where meetings were originally held), sock...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
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