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...Townsville's Lavarack Army Barracks, the catering platoons go through spuds the way combat platoons go through ammunition. Piled in the kitchens behind the base's Chauvel mess are five bulging 20-kg sacks, a day's supply of mash and chips for the 300 soldiers who eat here. They're all very active, says Warrant Officer John "Benny" Benstead, the head chef, "So their metabolism is cranking over a fair bit." As a dietitian might say, they know how to put it away...
...mission of Benstead and his white-clad cuisine team to put it in front of them. For today's lunch, the "livin' innies"-as he calls the resident troops who use the mess-will hoe into offerings like beef stroganoff, BBQ pork chops, chicken ? la king, Swiss roll and pavlova. Steak's "an old favorite," and there's a potato option at every meal. But the modern soldier is at ease with terms like parmigiana, and unfazed in the face of quiche. He's not slow to criticize, either: "You are only as good as your last meal," says...
...Anybody knows not to mess with me" Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House
...since gone home. "I'm tempted to get him a coffee mug with the slogan WORLD'S WORST JOB," a Western diplomat told me in May, when al-Maliki was sworn in. "They've just handed him a toothbrush and told him to clean up the mountain of a mess left by [former U.S. administrator] Paul Bremer, Allawi and [former Prime Minister Ibrahim] al-Jaafari...
...Anybody knows not to mess with me" Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House