Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other day we descended a circular staircase in our House kitchen and spent several hours below ground taking a tour of Central Kitchens. We had an appointment with Mr. Charles Whiteside, the chief engineer, who was more than a little harassed when we met him outside the bakery. Mr. Whiteside told us there had been a breakdown in the dishwater recirculation system, which he would have to attend to if the students of Harvard were to be fed that night. He apologized for not being able to take us on a thorough tour but invited us to accompany...
Trying to keep up with Mr. Whiteside's brisk pace through the underground tunnels, we got some inkling of what it is like to direct operations of the vast kitchen system. "It's literally a multi-million dollar operation," said our host as we passed a row of vats in which sliced bacon was being boiled for the noon meal. "Take this equipment that's just broken down: a million dollar series of pumps, pipes, and filters just to transfer thousands of gallons of dishwater from the dishwashing rooms into the huge kettles of the soup kitchens, where color...
After this, the audience knows that nothing painful, nothing honest, nothing real will be inflicted upon it. In Oliver twisted, the Thieves' Kitchen becomes an urban Sherwood Forest, with Robin Hood Fagin teaching his pickpocketeers to rob from the rich and give to the deserving poor-themselves. The grim workhouses, stews and drinking dens of London become playgrounds for boys with a taste for adventure. The biggest laugh of the evening comes when Fagin paternally growls at his charges, "Shut up and drink...
...HCUA made its requests after a poll of the Lowell House dining room revealed widespread dissatisfaction with Central Kitchen food...
...Tasting Society wish to inform your readers that for three years we have existed solely for the purpose of tasting wines. Formed in the Spring of 1961 by a group composed essentially of sophomores and tutors, the group restrained itself to sampling the Bordeaux and Burgundies appropriate to Central Kitchen cooking. Finding this approach lacking in taste, however, it was the opinion of the group that the meetings of the following year should be devoted solely to the tasting of wines...