Word: meal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most familiar and plebeian, take-out means pizza, chicken or burgers from fast-food chains, or a Chinese or Mexican meal -- or, of course, frozen or vacuum-bagged fodder from the supermarket. But these days there is a huge variety of fresh take-out food for the weary shopper. Many supermarkets offer wide menus that include not only kaleidoscopic salad bars but also many tony dishes just cooked in-house. The newly spruced-up Rice Epicurean Market in Houston offers roasted Cornish hens and beef Wellington, and it will steam lobsters to order as a customer goes about other shopping...
...three times the price of comparable homemade dishes, the fare is hardly cheap, but customers feel that convenience and the ability to buy only the amount needed for a single meal are worth the cost. There is stiff competition between take-out sources, so much so that last year New York's D'Agostino chain hired a graduate chef from the Culinary Institute of America to oversee its new prepared-food operation. With such talent, D'Agostino hopes to whet the appetites -- and curiosity -- of New Yorkers accustomed to such entrenched take-out sources as Balducci's, Grace's Marketplace...
This effort was inspired by an already existing project at Dudley House, Vroomen said. Students of Dudley House cook and serve a meal bi-weekly for the same shelter. Through this program, Vroomen became acquainted with the residents of the shelter...
Each week for the rest of the semester, the undergraduate houses will take turns sponsoring lunch with residents of the First Church Shelter. Students may sign up for the program in their houses during the week preceding the Saturday meal...
...advantage of this project over a fast is its efficiency, Vroomen said. A fast only generates about $1.25 per person, whereas this method results in a full meal for a homeless person from each student donor...