Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily reentered the house, hurried into the kitchen, fighting herself. Herself...
During the first week of practice (almost immediately after school began), Walker suggested to veterans Jamie Greacen and Steve Schramm that it was time they called a team meeting. "It was great," Pam recalled. "You know, it was the kind of meeting you have at Charlie's Kitchen...
...Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology fascinated her because she and her husband enjoy the western movies newly available in China. The general store transplanted from the hills of West Virginia prompted her to ask if it had been a coop. But it was the reconstructed kitchen of an Italian immigrant of the 1920s that elicited her greatest admiration. Although it was supposed to show the poverty and hardship suffered by America's immigrants, Cho Lin, the warm and plump wife of Teng Hsiao-p'ing, saw it quite differently. "They certainly had high living standards...
...hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from the syrup shortly after 1900.) Colombia's role in the coke trade is middleman and processor. At kitchen labs dotted around the country, coca leaves brought in from all over the Andes are distilled into a paste and then converted into a base (150 lbs. of leaves make 1 lb. of base, worth more than $2,000). In a final stage, this base is crystallized into...
Student input, then, seems to be a crucial factor in determining the type of food served in the dining halls. The quality of food is a different matter. Size of kitchen and the human element involved are two factors beyond the control of students who lobby to improve House food...