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...halls will operate on Sunday hours over the holiday, with the average menn offering soup, roast turkey and cranberry sauce, peas and potatoes, celery and radishes, Parker House rolls, fruit salad, mince or pumpkin pie, and plum pudding. Pictured at right are three cooks of the Kirkland house central kitchen as they clean up several newly-arrived birds...
Other drawbacks to the 20 Walker St. quarters, she went on, include an overloaded wiring system--"when all 28 girls turn on their lamps at the same time, the lights go out,"--no space for smoking except the kitchen, and a bedroom mirror propped up in front of the living-room fireplace...
...Kirkland central kitchen is over-centralized, not from the point of view of cold monetary efficiency, but simply from judging the finished meals as lunches or dinners. The number of meals produced per employee is greater in the central kitchen, and the flavor and quality of these meals is definitely inferior. Dispensing meals can never be like building automobiles or libraries, because it is the little extras which spell the difference between good and poor meals. Dishes which have been salted with a shaker always seem tastier than ones in which a pre-determined amount has been dumped and stirred...
...would be very simple to blame all the food difficulties on the impersonal gargantuanism of the central kitchen, but such a simplification is unwarranted. Even in the best House Dining Halls, the food is not good, though the students are not driven to complaints by its inadequacies. In addition, the University has sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars in the central kitchen and now cannot be expected blithely to abandon it as a poor idea. The quality of Dining Hall food in the five Houses attached to the central kitchen does not require poor meals. It may never rise...
...plenty." A 15-lb. roast on Sunday is the usual thing, and there are 35-lb. turkeys at Thanksgiving. The Conway home is equipped with restaurant-size utensils, and when the kids were younger, the staggering meals were staggered: pre-school-age kids ate dinner in the kitchen at 6; elementary-school-agers in the breakfast room at 6:30, and the big kids with dad and mother in the dining room at 7 (Mrs. Conway died last August...