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...treadmill in mine and use it as an exercise room," said a busy real estate agent who was buying her take-out dinner at Grace's Marketplace in New York City. It is just such foods -- and such satisfied shoppers -- that are responsible for the current flight from the stove. Eighty-one percent of American households buy take-out food within each four-week period, according to a study for the Food Marketing Institute and the Campbell Soup Co. These buyers are about as likely to be men as to be women, mostly between the ages...
Despite the advantages of convenience foods, there are some sobering negatives. No longer will family members come home to the warmly reassuring aromas of dinner simmering on the stove. And diverse though the array of take- out foods may be, inevitably there seems to be a sameness -- the endless curls and squiggles of cold pastas, the curried or dilled chicken salads and the pans of wilting zucchini and string beans swimming in oil. Then there is the dominant flavor -- call it take-out -- owing perhaps to bottled dressings or sauces underseasoned to appeal to the mass palate. Gone...
...Lower East Side, street people hang around the temple, keeping warm near the fire and eating off paper plates. Volunteers help out with the cooking; neighbors and local businessmen contribute food and wood for the stove...
...during the baseball off-season, you've got the hot stove league. Sports-minded folk inclined to ruminate about our national pastime sit around and yak about stats and trades and rookies and immortals...
...unless you've already booked a flight for Clemson, or hooked up with a vanload of friends headed for points south, you have no choice this weekend but subscribe to the hot-stove-league philosophy of soccer fandom...