Bruce travels to races with two suitcases, one for clothes and another for food and a hot plate.

WSJ: The Breakfast of This Champion? Bacon, Hold the Eggs

But in a central neighborhood where luxury apartments stand next to 1920s-era lane houses, Ms. Niu and her husband are crammed under the stairs of an old home in a windowless room that fits little besides their single bed and electric hot plate.

WSJ: In Shanghai, High Prices Keep Lid on Real-Estate Stimulus

Such concentrations are usually created by geological events, such as volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts that steer hot metal-bearing fluids into upper, accessible parts of the Earth's crust, erosion, or massive sedimentary movements.

WSJ: Exhausting the Earth's Resources? Not So Fast

He greets a cook and lifts up a plate of piping hot coconut prawns.

FORBES: Clawing back

But Mrs Child appeared on set with a frying pan, a portable hot-plate, an apron, a whisk and a dozen eggs, and merrily whipped up an omelette as she was being interviewed.

ECONOMIST: Julia Child, cookery teacher, died on August 13th, aged 91

The first time he fired up his double hot plate, the fuse-box door was open and he witnessed a cerulean flash and a rattail of smoke, the first of four fuses it took to fry one egg.

NEWYORKER: Idols

Millions are embracing a hot steaming plate of serious issues served with a side of mockery of the politicians, businessmen and celebrities who populate conventional news.

FORBES

At every Brewers home game, five sausages standing over 7 feet tall--bratwurst, Polish, Italian, hot dog and chorizo--entertain fans by racing each other down the warning track and around home plate.

FORBES: Sports