Word: kitchens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Quincy House, with its independent kitchen, is opened next Fall, Bullitt expressed the hope that menu planning does not "become part of the same bureaucratic pattern." Such a move would result in a "leveling downward toward general mediocrity" in the quality of House food, he added...
...however, three separate kitchens are maintained, the Central Kitchen staff will probably respond favorably to the pressure of competition by raising its standards, he said...
Single menus, the director argues further, would help to eliminate "the idea that one House has better food than another." How one so intimate with the House dining halls can claim not to recognize the often wide discrepancy between Central and independent kitchen food borders on naivete. His notion--that since one agency makes all the purchases, food quality does not differ from House to House--is blatantly false. There's many a slip twixt sale...
...Dining Hall Department has specious justification for its policy in its plea that an independent kitchen serving an especially attractive meal usually attracts many students through Interhouse. However, since purchasing is done through a single agency, Interhouse sign-ins constitute only bookkeeping changes, and thus are not a valid excuse for instituting a standard menu...
Next day Dulles began wandering out of the presidential suite (two bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, bath) to pay early-morning calls on other patients in nearby rooms. On his 71st birthday-Feb. 25-he had not one but three parties. Before noon the hospital staff brought him two presents:1) a big birthday cake, 2) a "cheering" report on his progress at the end of his first week of radiation treatments...