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...departing from the Saudi capital of Riyadh caught fire when one of the passengers lighted a butane stove in an aisle to brew tea, killing 301, mostly Saudi Arabians and Pakistanis...
...Bruce Springsteen wanted his own. John McEnroe and Lee Iacocca demanded -- and got -- the same thing the Boss did. Another boss, the Commander in Chief, has one in his private quarters at the White House. In state-of-the-art kitchens everywhere, the Viking range has become the hottest stove around...
...versatile Viking is strictly homegrown. Back in 1980, Mississippi contractor Fred Carl Jr., with some prodding from his wife, designed a range with "zero clearance." Translation: although the ovens produce a powerful 55,000 BTUs, built-in insulation allows the stove to touch kitchen cabinets on either side. Gone was the fire hazard posed by overheated professional ranges, and so too the equatorial ambient temperature well known to chefs. Viking shipped its first models in 1986; they immediately caught...
Cooking-appliance sales dropped 15% last year, but Viking is back-ordered in every color variation. Recession worries? Not while Carl can argue that the Viking is also "a basic cooking machine." For the hottest of stove leagues, of course...
...Seattle, where environmentalism and individualism are local mainstays, the woodburning stove has long been the appliance of the politically correct. Sales exploded during the 1970s energy crises, when stoves seemed an organic way of declaring independence from...