Word: flours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began walking through the narrow streets of the marketplace. Each block had its own special goods on sale. The first street I entered was the grain district. Along both sides plump, dark-faced women, wearing hats that looked like British bowlers, were sitting behind open sacks filled with flours and cereals of all different colors and textures. I wandered through the crowds that moved in a relentless parade up and down the streets. A fat peasant woman, her small son sketching in a layer of flour beside her, looked up from her knitting and, as I passed, called...
...earth little islands. That concern was heightened a few hours before independence, when Maurice Bishop was arrested and clamped in jail. In unconscious imitation of Marie Antoinette, Gairy said: "Grenada is a Garden of Eden. The people must eat bananas and local fruit in place of imported rice and flour...
...dinner she had cooked a Warsaw soup of potatoes and brown flour, and as she put the plate down in front of me I saw the blue concentration-camp number on her wrist. She noticed my looking at it and said, 'If you die, you die, but if you live you have to go through the whole comedy. There are too many magazines already. If Moses himself descended from Heaven today, he'd just be laughed...
...young man, told him briskly: "Let's start working together at once. We are going to break traditional molds." In the next years, the two worked in close collaboration. Every few weeks, Miró traveled from his house in Majorca to Royo's studio, a converted flour mill in Tarragona, outside Barcelona. There Royo would spread his newest tapestries on the floor. Miró studied each, with all its intricate twists, sworls, braids and tailings. Then he might splash a design across the rhythmic shapes, or snatch up some scrap of cloth to provide an accent...
...bread except the raisin bread for the five houses because the slicing machine can't cut through the shriveled grapes. Just before moving on, we glanced into a recipe box and hastily copied one card. Recipe for oatmeal muffins (makes 100 dozen) rolled oats 10 lbs. bread flour 20 lbs. cake flour 20 lbs. baking powder 3 lbs. sugar 10 lbs. salt 10 ounces eggs 5 quarts milk 20 quarts shortening...