Word: meals
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Novak is able to elicit such responses because he is a most unassuming, amiable sort who leaves his ego at the door. He fits his approach to his subject. With the brusque, no-nonsense Iacocca, he conducted interviews in offices and conference rooms, never sharing a meal with him. With O'Neill, he took drives around Cape Cod in the former Speaker's beat-up Chrysler and listened to endless anecdotes over tuna sandwiches. "I worried that these were only a wall of stories," he says. "I came to realize that Tip's opinions were expressed through his stories...
...gastronomical theory can explain the enduring appeal of the Thanksgiving dinner. The traditional menu is largely a 19th-century re-creation of Pilgrim and Indian fare, and none of these groups normally claim membership in the world's great culinary traditions. But miraculously the meal remains a monument to pre-microwave American cooking. Not even McDonald's has had the audacity to create McTurkey, nor does Domino's deliver cranberry pizza. So too are the food faddists outflanked, as sun-dried tomatoes, imported chevre and oat-bran anything give way to overstuffed lassitude...
STUDENTS staying at Harvard this weekend can breathe a sigh of relief, however, because Harvard Dining Services will select the 15 turkeys for its annual Thanksgiving Day meal...
...veteran Dining Services employee maintains a sense of humor about the meal, and about those who don't partake of it. "If you can't eat with the best," says Cockroft, "I hope everything's good at home...
...letter's five co-authors were quite piqued by the accolade I gave to a recent dining hall meal. First of all, they wrote, the offering was "vile." They also urged The Crimson to end such idle reporting and engage in more probing analyses "in the spirit of Woodward and Bernstein...