Martha Kostyra, a Polish-American from New Jersey, spent her teens sewing her own dresses and cooking for a family whose poverty and abusiveness she later tried to hide.
As a homebody, I will admit I enjoy cooking with friends and family, but the act of dining out is one fine indulgence.
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In addition, travel has brought more and more Americans into contact with foreign cultures and cuisines, and some of America's fastest-growing immigrant groups, including Mexicans and Asians, have introduced their traditional spicy cooking to Americans in family-owned restaurants.
One family member will go in search of cooking gas, another will join the line for gasoline or diesel, another for whatever else is in short supply.
When 24-year-old Chandika Madusanka realised that people wanted to learn not only how the spices were grown but how to use them, he began running cooking classes out of his family's kitchen.
Luckily, as soon as we resettled, west of Camp Pendleton in San Clemente, my mother began cooking up a storm, recreating family favorites as she was able to find Vietnamese staples such as fish sauce and sticky rice.
These are people who have just walked away from jobs and family, letting people live in their houses, cooking for them, on the phone every day.
In the months before the model was killed, Ms Steenkamp lived with the Myers family, sleeping in a small upstairs bedroom, cooking pasta for Mr Myers, surprising her hosts with gifts of chocolate, and gossiping late into the night with Mr Myers' daughters - and Reeva's close friends - Gina and Kim.
The Camerucci family runs the Trattoria Monti, offering top-notch cooking from the Marche region.
Clean cooking solutions have been created but with the idea that one size fits all, without considering the different fuel sources, food choices, cooking styles, or the size of the family.
That year a new manager took over and instituted a tiered system of payment: If your household consumption was not more than 7.5 cubic meters per month (this would take care of water required for drinking, cooking and some hygienic needs of an average family of eight), you paid a subsidized rate, but if your monthly consumption was more, you paid a market rate.
To trade in my fashion week stilettos for cooking flip-flops to spend time with my family taught me the importance of slowing things down and savoring the truly important things in life that we often take for granted.
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Blige, the holidays are about cooking, gifts, eating and, of course, family.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, the typical Haitian family living in Port au Prince spends 40% of its income on cooking charcoal.
Until last January's revolution, her life consisted of little more than cooking and cleaning for her employer and caring for a demanding family back home in Warra'a, one of the city's poorest suburbs.
Family-style dinner is served at 7 most nights, there should be no cooking after 10 p.m. and music should be off after 11 p.m.
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Or better yet, when I am out of town and staying at the home of a friend or family member, I ask the locals where I can get fresh crabs since I enjoy cooking when on vacation.
Above, the extended family lives in a subdivided floor with a communal living space in which a fire burns for cooking by day and heat at night.
Least impressive is the 48-inch-wide Liebherr refrigerator and freezer, which masquerades as a large family model but is really two slim units pushed together ideal for a non-cooking bachelor living in a studio apartment in Tokyo.
Women will spend all day cooking the favourite food of the dead relative for the customary feast, in which friends and family gather to toast the ghostly visitors.
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