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Microwave ovens are fast and easy, but they can't broil, caramelize, steam, grill or roast food. The new Wolf/FlashBake 120 by Quadlux in Fremont, Calif., cooks nearly as fast as a microwave but runs on halogen lights controlled by a computer chip. Infrared rays brown the food while visible and near visible light penetrates and cooks it. First used in commercial kitchens in 1993, the new FlashBake oven for home use will cost $1,400 to $1,600 when it goes on sale...
...scene midway through Apt Pupil, Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) tosses a stray cat into an oven. The cat, of course, escapes, to wild cheers from the audience. This scene, while not profound or even endurable, epitomizes Apt Pupil. As in almost any drama, the villain is far more interesting than the "hero," who is likely asleep while our villain is drinking Old Crow, listening to opera and amusing himself by throwing cats into ovens or something. Of course, as in any Hollywood film, the one inviolable taboo is that no matter how many humans are gruesomly murdered, an adorable...
...such, Apt Pupil would seem to be a thriller that hovers somewhere between tolerable and entertaining. What's troubling, though, is that Dussander is a former S.S. officer, and this cat in an oven acts as an obvious metaphor for the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, the reference here being a blatant and almost nauseating one to Nazi gas chambers. If far more carefully done, a movie could perhaps have succeeded in making people understand the horrors of the Holocaust in visceral terms, for it is certainly a shockingly emotional event that is all too easily...
...Gelson's Markets, an upmarket grocer in Los Angeles, shoppers can order a brick-oven pizza or a chinois chicken salad at an in-store Wolfgang Puck's To Go and dine by a roaring fireplace in a cozy corner of the market--a move that would have once seemed about as down-market as getting ready for a date at the makeup counter at Macy's. The Ukrop's chain, based in Richmond, Va., has been selling prepared meals since the mid-'80s. Today 45% of store space is devoted to selling 130 takeout items, which are freshly prepared...
...Chef Association was born. Formed in 1991 with five chefs, the organization has mushroomed to 1,400, with 10 to 20 customers each. These culinary fairy godmothers prepare custom meals that cost about $7 to $8 a person, and need only a quick, 15-min. warm-up in the oven. "It's a service whose time has come," says MacKay. "What's for dinner is a problem in this country...