Word: cuisinart
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That left me with two popular older models: KitchenAid's $100 Ultra Power Plus, which comes in fun colors like green, blue and red, and Cuisinart's Custom Control Total Touch, which typically sells for $70. The KitchenAid was cute and compact, but I finally settled on the slightly bulkier Cuisinart because it consistently turned out the most evenly browned bread, bagels, Pop-Tarts and muffins with the least amount of thought or effort on my part. Now that's what I call a smart toaster--not that I'll ever get near a piece of toast again...
...worn or washed the apron since early September because a pesto stain still covered the “Ch” in “Happy Chanukah.” I thought briefly about making that pesto again before coming back to school, because my parents’ Cuisinart makes food processing such a pleasure. We had no more farfalle, which is the best kind of pasta to hold the sauce, so I would have had to go to Shaw’s alone and then come back to our kitchen afterward to create my pesto dinner. I am still...
...middle that collects things like junk mail and form letters from the Vermont Society of Bar Examiners and now, since it is holiday season, pictures of smiling children and beautifully groomed dogs whom no one has ever met. The linoleum floor is swept frequently and, like I said, the Cuisinart is first-rate. But for so long so much of the food in that kitchen was off-limits or bad or would lead to inevitable disappointment if I touched it. So it is a bit emotionally charged as rooms...
...high points are the running and operating of defunct devices, like the rotating file cabinets and human elevator analogue, complete with passenger. There is a poetry in useless machines, like taking pictures with no film, running the toaster with no bread or switching on the empty Cuisinart--a poetry that has its own meter and history...
They are somewhat nonplussed by what greets them. Someone is watching the Rodney King drama unfold on cable TV, while someone else listens to an Eddie Murphy hit and another works out on a NordicTrack. One of the defenders makes a placatory gesture, offering the intruders a Cuisinart. Down the hall, a captive is being tortured by electric shock, his tormentor chatting amiably with him in American slang between jolts...