Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying to write better than I can." Other books: Buttered Side Down, Roast Beef Medium, Personality Plus, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls, So Big, Show Boat, Mother Knows Best; with Playwright George S. Kaufman, a play: The Royal Family...
...largest collection of its kind, which she is giving to the New York Academy of Medicine. Oldest specimen is a manuscript, written about 870 A.D., of Apicius De re Coquinaria (On Cookery), which collates some of the ancient recipes the Romans considered choice. Ancient cookery differed little from modern. Roast pork and apples was a Roman, dish, also duck and turnip. The Romans had no sugar, used honey. Honey and cheese made a delicate dish. Pepper was new to them. They used it profusely. Cinnamon they knew but used it at burials, not in the kitchen. When Dr. Wilson could...
...Wingshooting, Cont." (Letters, Dec. 30, p. 4). "The gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird." Wrong and right. It is necessary to both lead and follow through, or the duck supper will be a pork roast...