She is also the star, along with her friends restaurateur Alice Waters and writer Ruth Reichl, of a new documentary called "Soul of Banquet" by Wayne Wang, which shows her preparingameal.
Another early ad the next year for the much more mainstream Apple II pictured a woman preparingameal, gazing adoringly at her mate working on the Apple computer on the kitchen table.
The ACTIVE study also tested the time it took to do daily activities, like preparingameal, and performance tests, such as reading price tables to pick the best telephone provider, Dr. Wolinsky said.