Children were only able to take a packed lunch to Tiffield Primary, which has no kitchen, before the dinner club started.
While 15-hour days in the kitchen are no longer the norm, Cheng still works a heavy schedule, dropping in on two of his restaurants every day to make sure things are going smoothly.
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In fact, many Members of Congress need look no further than their own kitchen table to find them.
On the counter that serves as the kitchen there is no fresh food, only a jar of protein powder.
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No matter how busy the kitchen gets, it consistently produces wonderful food.
Many Brazilian mansions have no hot water in the kitchen, and there are paulistanos who time-share helicopters but do not own a dishwasher.
Lang and his father moved into Fengtai, a grim neighborhood of Beijing, where they occupied a studio apartment a hundred feet square, with bunk beds, a piano, a tiny galley kitchen, and no heat.
He added the house "has been vandalised to a very bad extent: all of the wiring has been taken out, there's no plumbing, there's no heating system, the kitchen has been removed, and the bathroom is an absolute mess".
There was absolutely no room nor equipment in their kitchen to support such elaborate baked goods.
If our mother noticed something awry in her suspiciously tidy yet reeking kitchen, she gave no sign of it.
"People no longer want just the pretty kitchen, " says Janice Costa , editor of trade publication Kitchen and Bath Design News.
They looked at me, the locals, in quiet disgust, as if I could expect no less than otters in the kitchen, the way I was after letting things go.
With two ex-Rose Bakery chefs in the kitchen, it's no wonder that top-notch traditional British fare is the order of the day here.
Living conditions in these are basic at best - a one-room family-house with a tiny shed-like kitchen-conversion and often no private toilet - but it is this unusual mix of ancient aristocratic architecture and current-day, salt-of-the-earth locals that gives the hutong alleys their unique character.
So it was no surprise to hear a report from the kitchen that the little plastic knob on the speed switch had finally bit the dust or flour as the case may be.
Unfortunately for anyone considering this as an alternative to a kitchen computer, there's no full-fledged web browser, calendar apps, or the like, but it will at least give you weather updates, and could well be further improved by some of the promised firmware updates.
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In the meantime, the national and kitchen table conversation over higher education should no longer be looked at in the isolation of student loans.
To grasp the intellectual poverty that awaits us in a smart world, look no further than recent blueprints for a "smart kitchen" an odd but persistent goal of today's computer scientists, most recently in designs from the University of Washington and Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan.
Though indeed luxurious, such appointments are no longer among the newest and greatest high-end kitchen fixtures.
Eden Dedrick, 46, started puzzle and board games company Buffalo Games in 1986 with her husband Paul with no formal business plan and very little money around a kitchen table.
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Of course, no one's going to process oil shale in a kitchen.
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At the time, no one except, presumably, the cook cared that the kitchen was hot and smelly, or that she had to climb onto a chair or a stepladder to fetch the plates, or crouch on the floor to reach into the cabinets where she kept her pots and pans.
Look, the kitchen table I grew up in Claymont, Delaware, no one sat around and was able to make a distinction between, if that existed at the time, between bailing out the banks, TARP, between a funding program that was designed called the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Under cross-examination, however, she conceded she had no contract with Christianson, the company that supposedly was her general contractor, and there was no proposal or bid, and that when she bought hardware for the kitchen she sent it not the Christianson but to one of Allen's employees at Allen's corporate offices.
But when the usual combinations of two or three drugs no longer work, doctors are turning to what's been dubbed "kitchen sink" therapy, in which as many as eight drugs are used simultaneously.
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"No tears have been shed that she's passed away, " said Mr. Kitchen, who was a miner during the yearlong strike and lost his job when the mine was shut in 1987.
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