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Standing in front of copper pots that sit on an industrial stove, with a wall of homemade preserves behind her and old-fashioned baskets above, Martha Stewart is right where she belongs -- in her big country kitchen. She is spinning sugar, a complex task that will result in a haze of edible angel hair adorning a dessert of red currant ice cream in brandy-snap cups. As she slings the liquid sugar onto a laundry rack with a flick of her whisk, Stewart effortlessly alternates advice ("The hot sugar can get stuck in your cats' fur. Keep them...
...hands that clasp and floppy knees that genuflect. The company wanted to develop a doll that "would appeal to a child's image of God as a big, * amorphous friend." Kitchenware is also popular. "I am getting my daughter a set of plastic pots and pans and a little stove and sink, which I also had," says Hillary Adams, 30, mother of Natalie, 2. "But the best are the most solid, basic toys like her wooden blocks, which have enduring value through her different stages of development...
...tarmac, condensation on the inside of the plane creates a tropical rain forest in the aisle," says Riley. Sometimes the plane seems to fly about as well as a log in one of those rain forests, and reporters have nervously taken to timing its takeoffs. The plane has no stove, so there are no hot meals. Not so bad, you say? Riley's rejoinder: "Try swallowing chicken teriyaki cold...
...room is barely large enough to fit the three beds. In the winter, cold air knifes through the spaces between the clapboard walls. The children sleep under layers of homemade patchwork quilts. No door separates their bedroom from the living room, a small rectangle dominated by the wood stove that is the sole source of heat for the house...
...perhaps there is cause for hope. Many people who buy take-out food on workdays take to the stove on special occasions. "I cook for out-of-town friends or when my boyfriend comes over," says Gerri Brownstein, 25, a New York advertising-sales representative. Brownstein may be remembering an observation made by Thomas Wolfe. "There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves," he wrote in The Web and the Rock. Somehow, the act of reheating dinner seems a lot less appealing...