Word: salads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Weissbecker, director of Food Services, said that the space now occupied by the kitchen in each House will accomodate newly positioned serving lines and salad bars, clearing more space for tables and chairs...
Such products are made possible by space's environment of near total vacuum and near zero gravity. Those conditions cannot be easily duplicated on earth, and they permit heretofore impossible experiments and manufacturing processes. In space, an oil-and-vinegar salad dressing stays perfectly mixed because there is no gravity to pull the ingredients apart. Mixed the same way, superstrong metal alloys could be made in the absence of gravity's pull. Unlike oil and vinegar, the new alloys would then stay together after their return to earth. Deere & Co., the Illinois tractor maker, is investigating the impact...
...response to union complaints at last years' contact negotiations, Powers said. Harvard has begun to consider salad bar prepares as being on an alternate track for cooking jobs...
...Rice said that there are only about 12 salad bar prepares at Harvard, and the University actively discourages women from applying for kitchen positions...
...many students, because it started during lunch hours, the blackout meant fumbling with the salad bar. However, Benjamin Walcott, assistant director of food services, said, "We were able to limp through. Fortunately it was a soup and sandwich day." Walcott added, "We were able to feed everybody"--but they were unable to serve any more fried cauliflower once the outage began...