Word: icebox
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...invention of the icebox in 1803, the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, and the development of the vacuum-sealed Mason jar in 1858 widened the variety and availability of foodstuffs. Still, little was known about nutrition. Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body. The first reformers were not dietitians but moralists who seemed to harbor some squeamishness about the sensuous pleasures of eating. Believing that meat made for hot tempers and sexual excess, the Rev. Sylvester Graham urged the eating of raw fruits and vegetables, food not "compounded and complicated by culinary process...
...kitchen is dominated by a huge freestanding chopping block and a massive old icebox. "I thought I'd make that into a storage cabinet. Do you like Yorkshire pudding?" she asks expectantly as she mixes the batter. "The old lady used to make this on holidays. I love to cook, but with all this touring I've really lost my chops," she confesses, meaning manual dexterity in the musical vernacular...
LAST YEAR's Music 180 class had some of the best musicians at Harvard. The Bach Society has begun to raid that icebox and the result has been a greatly improved orchestra...
...hope the icebox keeps working. A frost-free refrigerator would look out of place in Steve's small shack...
...Steve's shack on the side of a two-lane road outside Ipswich, clams rule the world. The icebox is a clambox--as the day progresses, fewer and fewer clams are left on its single shelf and by late afternoon, the icebox looks strangely unfulfilled when four or so quarts remain alone on the shelf...