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...more and more Americans are living and eating alone. Rather than sit down to a feast each night, they often choose to heat and eat a Lean Cuisine or Le Menu frozen dinner. Now comes a convenient appliance in which to cook such solitary repasts: the Half Pint microwave oven. Made by Japan's Sharp Electronics, this compact cooker is small enough (13 in. by 13 in.) to fit snugly into the tiniest studio apartment. It will bake a potato in six minutes, only a tad slower than the four minutes that a typical full-size microwave takes...
...Half Pint is selling well to all kinds of customers who are short on kitchen space, from college students living in dormitories to camping enthusiasts who like to have hot meals in their recreational vehicles. "We were completely sold out after Christmas," says Byron Wilson, a microwave-oven sales specialist for the Bamberger's department store in Paramus, N.J. "We've even had to take reservations for future shipments." Since the small oven was introduced in the U.S. seven months ago, Sharp has sold about 250,000 Half Pints, compared with only 50,000 of its most popular full-size...
...serve most foods that can be prepared by a grill, a blender, or an oven," says Martin J. Katz '87, manager of the Mather House grill. He adds, "If people request things I try to stay open to their ideas...
...silver, late afternoon light admitted through a single kitchen window. Three chairs surround a formica $ table standing flush against a wall. The seats of the chairs are torn open, exposing a brown stuffing. Beside one of the kitchen chairs a gas pipe juts straight up three feet where an oven used to be. Mallory explains he has no use for an oven; the hot plate on the sink is more than adequate for Michael and him. Beneath the sink all the drawers of the kitchen cabinet have been pulled out, leaving holes. In an aluminum pie plate on the table...
...child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...