Word: hausfrauen
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Swiss pineapple cheese cream scarcely sounds like a dish designed to go with German Schinken und Kartoffel. But, forewarned by trade journals, wise West German grocers are busily stocking up on the ingredients. After Clemens Wilmenrod, Der Fernsehkoch (The Television Cook), tells the Hausfrauen how to make it, Swiss cream is sure to be a favorite dessert-and Clemens plans to pass the word soon. The balding, Menjou-mustached, ample-jowled Fernsehkoch last week was well into his seventh year on the air, with the oldest and most popular show on West German...
...cook, he is also a fine salesman. Hausfrauen who have watched him operate in his gleaming white, gadget-spangled kitchen have developed statistically measurable yearnings for what West Germans know as an "American kitchen." Once, after he casually made use of a vegetable slicer called Schneidboy, sales of the gadget soared to 1,500,000. Author of three cookbooks, Wrilmenrod is swamped with offers for testimonials, but insists he is very choosy. "Not even for 100,000 marks would I endorse a recipe using margarine." That, Clemens feels, would destroy the glamour of his show for the audience, whom...
...stocky, earnest Red Army captain had been in Berlin only a week and it was something of a disappointment. He had heard tall tales of worldly Berlin and its women, but he had seen only weary Hausfrauen alien grubbing for food or fuel among the battered buildings...
That night, after curfew, two of the goth's military police stopped two women in the village street. The women explained that they were going for a midwife. The MPs went along, just to be certain. They passed an entrance to a salt mine. Said one of the Hausfrauen: "That's where the bullion is hidden." MP ears perked up: How's that again? The woman repeated the gossip she had heard-Germany's gold had been salted away in that mine...
...villages and country towns were different. From behind lace curtains in neat, storybook cottages, Hausfrauen watched the endless chain of tanks clanking down the cobbled Hauptstrasse. The war was passing them...