Word: kitchened
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...husband, paid a visit to London's famed Adelphi Terrace, home of many a great British writer, soon to be razed for an office-building development. Escorted by the real-estate agent, she poked among the underground arches where Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist imagined a thieves' kitchen...
...people pursue their business or pleasure with bounce and intensity in the paintings of Doris (''Doric") Emrick Lee. Even a sleeper sleeps so soundly that he looks dead, and a woman threading a sewing machine is obviously incapable of fatigue. When young Mrs. Lee's bustling kitchen scene, Thanksgiving, was awarded the Chicago Art Institute's $500 Logan prize last autumn, Mrs. Frank Logan pointed her finger in scorn, called it an "awful thing'' (TIME, Nov. 18). Shortly thereafter the Art Institute, of which Mrs. Logan's husband is honorary president, acquired Thanksgiving...
Caught in the grip of a flood problem that has vexed mankind since pre-historic times, Mr. Westcott and his much-lampooned kitchen fell victim last week to the sinister power that is sour milk. Science, with all its starry array of meat-choppers, lemon-peelers, and assembly lines for manufacturing potatoes an gratin, had no way to tell of the fallibility of the bovine world till the crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with...
...outlook for the future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that human element which is so essential a part of any large food purveying establishment. It is just this touch of individuality that gives world famous restaurants their reputations. Oscar of the Waldorf is no mere automaton, but an artist who knows the difference between curds and whey...
...tells of empire-shaking deeds when the taster succumbed to the lure of Tammany tactics, and Montaigne accounts it the greatest of compliments that Henry IV of France dispensed with his taster when visiting at the essayist's chateau. But Montaigne was a humanist, and had not reduced his kitchen to a system of boilers, pulleys, chafing dishes and steam baths...