...The story of Like Water For Chocolate, written by Laura Esquivel, is about a girl named Tita De La Garza and her struggle to pursue true love and claim her independence. In this novel, the protagonist is Tita whereas her mother Mama Elena is an antagonist. Tita and her mother never had a strong relationship or a bond with each other and Tita ends up developing a relationship with food that gives her power to nurture and give out let to her emotions. Tita is good at cooking since she was born on the kitchen table. There is a ranch cook named Nacha, the prime caretake for Tita throughout her childhood, and provides her with the love and supports Mama Elena's family. Nacha is also the source for most of recipes in the novel. Later in March, Nacha died on the day of Rosaura's wedding. Tita has to take over Nacha's ranch cook place since she stayed closely with Nacha. Tita was happy because she became the official ranch cook; however, she feels sad because of Nancha's dead. Tita tried her best to prove that she was the best ranch cooker. According to author Elena, "Tita was the best qualified of all the women in the house to fill the vacant post in the kitchen, and in there flavors, smells textures, and the effects they could have were beyond Mama Elena's iron command."(49) Although Tita had a older sister who has never cook before. According to the book, "As the first meal that Rosaura has cooked it is not bad. Don't you agree, Pedro?"(51) Pedro bought a bouquet of roses to celebrate...
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...(This story is 10 pages long. You need to scroll down, from page to page, to read the entire story.) American History By Judith Ortiz Cofer I once read in a Ripley's Believe It or Not column that Pater-son, New Jersey, is the place where the Straight and Narrow (streets) intersect. The Puerto Rican tenement known as El Building was one block up from Straight. It was, in fact, the corner of Straight and Market; not "at" the corner, but the corner. At almost any hour of the day, El Building was like a monstrous jukebox, blasting out salsas from open windows as the residents, mostly new immigrants just up from the Island, tried to drown out whatever they were currently enduring with loud music. But the day President Kennedy was shot, there was a profound silence in El Building; even the abusive tongues of viragoes, the cursing of the unemployed, and the screeching of small children had been somehow muted. President Kennedy was a saint to these people. In fact, soon his photograph would be hung alongside the Sacred Heart and over the spiritist altars that many, women kept in their apartments. He would become part of the hierarchy of martyrs they prayed to for favors that only one who had died for a cause would understand. On the day that President Kennedy was shot, my ninth grade class had been out in the fenced, playground of Public School Number 13. We had been given "free" exercise time and had been ordered by our P.E. teacher, Mr. DePalma, to "keep moving...
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... Corey Hall 9/21/11 Jordan and I were playing hide and seek. He was seeking and I was hiding under my aunt's bed. I could hear my aunt calling for Jordan to come into the kitchen, so I followed him. Peeking around the corner, I could see a short, slim black women sitting in a chair at the kitchen table. When Jordan entered the kitchen she motioned for him to take a seat in the chair across from her. I could hear her asking him questions about his mom and things that had happened to him. They talked for about thirty minutes the she and my aunt exchanged words in private. Then my aunt turned to tell Jordan to get his belongings because he was going with the lady in the kitchen. I had a funny feeling the entire time the lady was talking to my cousin. I could tell something wasn’t right, because we never really have company and when we do they always tell us kids to go play. Today was different and I was scared of what would happen. As Jordan started to pack his things I started to cry. At the time I didn’t know why I was crying but it felt nesseccary. Once Jordan finished packing we took what seemed like the longest walk ever down the hall back to the kitchen where the lady was waiting to take my cousin away. "Ready to go?" Jordan didn’t respond he just turned around hugged me and said goodbye. I watched out of my grandparent’s window as the lady and my cousin disappeared down the porch into the dark...
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...Johnny st.hilaire My Dream House Johnny st.hilaire My Dream House ` DREAM HOUSE My dream house, what would it be what would it look like it, and most important where will I build it. I like the countryside wide open areas, maybe farm lands with some animals. But I do like the city life with the nose, rude people, and heavy traffic on the high way. There is pros and cons to both environment, the countryside close to no air pollution, but less services you need to travel more to access services. The pros and cons of the city life more cultural opportunities, more diversity of people, more opportunities for higher education, better services like trash collection, water and sewer, cons more crime, more pollution, higher costs living. So as you can see I am little undecided about my dream house so. I am just going to explain two type of dream houses and locations one countryside and one in the city. First the city it would most likely be in Broward County a lake front home of course “I love water”. It would be 3 story house because it’s very hard to build full basements here. So one of the floors would be more like a half basement because the property will have a 3 car garage. The outside of the house would be a dark brown wood siding, and then a simple rock base that goes up about 1 feet on the house to give the old house effect. The side facing the water would be all glass so we can always look out to the gorgeous...
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...Christmas cookie event, because there probably was not mid-year cookie baking taking place. I hope Shelby holds on to our baking memories as she grows up. The beginning of this cooking fiasco is putting on the proper attire. There are two beige aprons that hang in our kitchen. A red and black swirl design screen printed on the front surrounds the word “Mommy” on mine, and “Me” on hers. They were a gift from one of Shelby’s schoolteachers. She typically hands me mine, we both put them on and she waits for me to tie hers behind her back. Shelby would cook every meal with me if I let her. Unfortunately, cooking with my child is not conducive to efficient meal preparation, or edible meals for that matter. Now that we are properly dressed, we collect all of our ingredients. We get from the pantry, the flour, white and brown sugar, salt, and baking soda. Then we open the refrigerator to get the eggs, and retrieve the vanilla from the spice rack. We set it all out on the gray Formica kitchen counter, get out all of our measuring cups and spoons, two large bowls, a spatula and the Kitchen Aid mixer. The mixer is housed in the pantry and collects dust until we are ready to bake cookies. The absurd weight of a Kitchen Aide Mixer, the lengthy clean up and...
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...Page 1: Kitchen and Bathroom Remodeling – Home Whether your bathroom is old and outdated or your kitchen is in need of a major overhaul, Jorgensen Home Improvements is here to help. With more than 25 years of hands-on experience in the home remodeling industry, we proudly serve the Des Moines area with comprehensive remodeling services at an affordable rate. When you work with us, you can rest assured that we will provide you with the personalized service you deserve. In addition to outstanding customer service and flexible scheduling, you can look forward to free estimates as well. Our unwavering dedication to exceeding client expectations is what drives us to continue offering a wide range of services that include, but are not limited to,...
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...China, Made in Japan, Made in Mexico”. Very rarely will I pick up a piece of packaging and notice the word Canada. These days, so many of the products we use daily are made overseas. Unfortunately thriving nations such as Canada and the United States take advantage of developing countries. Looking at China specifically, they are abundant in natural resources and they have a high population. This allows them to produce high-tech products at low-budget prices. I feel I take these things for granted. I use these things every day and not once have stopped to think of where they come from. To continue, one of my favourite things to do is cook. I’ve been in the kitchen with my mother as long as I can remember. We make lasagna, carbonara, arancini, tiramisu, cannoli – the list goes on and on. Clearly, a common trend in our kitchen is Italian food. Not only is it delicious, but it is one more way I see myself connected to...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction – Part 1 Retirement Analysis – Part 2 Retirement Property Investment Analysis – Part 3 Recommendations - Part 4 Appendix – MLS Brochures Introduction Team B of Investment Asset Managers Inc, has been tasked with a major project of preparing a recommendation of alternative residential retirement properties for a couple. The team intends of offering an option that will fulfill all of the couple’s needs, wants and within their yearly budget. Since the couple wishes to remain anonymous, Team B will work directly with their representative lawyer, Kenneth Strang. The team has determined that the work requested should take approximately 2 weeks and will includes four members at a full time rate of $30 per hour. Total cost for the project will be $9600. Team B’s members include Geoffrey Ramsay, Brett Sheppard, Wayne Johnson, and Michael Smith. Retirement Analysis 403 (b) Retirement payment options: Plan Option One: Investment: $277,770 Joint Lifetime Income With a 20-Year guarantee period (Also Known as Joint and Survivor With 20-Year Period Certain) and 100% continuing benefit to Survivor Monthly Payment for Owner: $1,291 Monthly Payment for Surviving Owner: $1,291 Minimum Payout: $309,840 What it means to you: This annuity provides income to you and another person (e.g., a spouse) for as long as either of you is alive. When one of you passes away, the survivor continues to receive income at 100% of the original amount. If you and...
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...Peanut butter and jelly sandwich Go into the kitchen, open the fridge look at the bottom shelf, and grab the strawberry jelly. Then put it on the kitchen table next go to the pantry and open the door and go inside look to your right hand side and you should see the peanut butter on the second shelf. Take it to the kitchen table. next go to the top drawer to the right of the kitchen sink open it and get a butter knife out then go back to the kitchen table and grab bread open the bread and get two slices then open the jelly then very carefully take the knife and get some of the jelly on the knife and then spread it on one slice of the bread then when you’re done wipe the knife with a paper towel which is on the kitchen towel in front of you. Next open the peanut butter and then get some peanut butter on the knife then spread it on the other slice of bread. Then take the knife when you are done to the sink which is behind you. Then turn left and head straight to the glass cabinet. Open it up, grab a small plate, then go back to the table, and put the sandwich on the plate. then please put the peanut butter and jelly back in the pantry after you close them and clean the outside of the jar if you got any on the outside of the jar. Also clean the table and that is how you make a peanut buttery and jelly...
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...quickly being put to use. By 1915 Herbert’s 80 qt. mixer became much more of a standard use in kitchens on U.S. navy vessels and in many bakeries around the U.S. The only thing holding him back at this point from jumping into business was strictly because of WW1. But luckily by 1918, many company executives began to test these machines out in kitchens in American homes, so the popularity of the mixer began to rise. Not much later, the 5 qt. countertop mixer came into the picture. But high costs, each mixer costing about $189.50 (which today that be equivalent to about $2,000), led to not so many people rushing to buy the device. So about 10 years later a man by the name Egmont Ahrens, slimmed it down and cut the costs to about $55. I’m not quite sure how much that would be today. The Kitchen Aid mixer took a while to really get into the system. So a way that the company fixed this was by sending women door to door with the mixer, having them go into the private kitchens of homes kitchens and giving first hand demonstrations. This way of getting the product out, worked! Many attachments, used for a variety of different things, could be put on this mixer. Ranging from a pea splitter, to a meat grinder. And the attachments created in 1919, would still be able to fit into a brand new 2012 addition mixer. It has stayed somewhat the same for a whole entire lifetime. I own a kitchen aid. They should be common in every household, they are reasonably priced based on their durability...
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...Teamwork In the Kitchen Teamwork in the kitchen is a basic requirement as it is the main key of successful performance for anyone who is, going to or will join this most important department of hospitality. The purpose of this essay is to explain the concept of teamwork and how it applies to kitchen environment. Also, examples of personal experience of teamwork in class are provided to illustrate its effectiveness as a way to achieve common goals. Dwyer (2013, p. 224) defines teamwork as a cooperative effort by the members of a group or team to achieve common goals and objectives. This means that in a team, all members need to contribute to the common effort communicate and help each other to achieve set goals. The characteristics of effective teams include having clear goals, results- driven structures, competent team members, collaborative climates, unified commitment, good communication, principle leadership, and internal and external support (Kayse, 2012). Teamwork is particularly important in the kitchen environment. In the kitchen, chefs are effectively team leaders who are responsible for organising the team to meet its goal(s), the quality of the team’s output, developing the team and the interface between the team and the organisation (Hardingham, 1995, pp.32-33). Carefully explaining goals to all kitchen staff and setting out all the standard requirements are some of the responsibilities of the chef. In the kitchen where different people...
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...huge home entertainment center that contains a 60 inch RCA television and two glass shelves cover up most of the wall in front of the couch. Beside the entertainment center is a 50 gallon fish tank with beautiful angel fish in it. On the cream painted walls are Thomas Kinkade paintings. I love his art work. Throughout my home you will also notice the hardwood floors that look as if it was waxed with baby oil. My home smells like Japanese cherry blossoms from the walls scents I purchased at bath and body works. Walking out of the den you will see to the right the master bedroom. Walking into the kitchen you will see the oval shape wood kitchen table with four matching chairs. The kitchen is well equipped with stainless steel appliances. The small kitchen window is decorated with beige curtains, and the cherry wood cabinets cover up almost all the walls in the kitchen. Walking out the kitchen will lead you to the dining room, which is also connected to the living room. In the dining room is a long wood rectangle dining room table that has six chairs with beige cushions that are as comfortable as sitting on bales of hay. Also in the dining room is a cherry wood china cabinet with two glass doors that has all of my mother’s delicate crystal dishes in it. On the living room walls are paintings of God and other paintings of our religion. In the living room is a beige couch and a matching love seat with a glass coffee table and two end tables with gold accents. The living room also has...
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...Make Green Delicious: Sustainability at Jamie Kennedy Kitchens What are the key challenges of designing a restaurant in a sustainable way? The Wine Bar generated the most profits for Jamie Kennedy Kitchens partly due to its attractive design. The Wine Bar had an open kitchen, where customers witness the organic ingredients used in the meal preparation. This design strategy attracted the younger segment as well as the professional clients. The design further incorporated the style of hand written menu lists and the architecture of the vineyard that stretched throughout the dining room. The restaurant has the feel of a complete food experience. When the customer enters into a Jamie Kennedy Kitchen restaurant, he/she could feel the excitement about the food experience at different levels. However the key challenge is the relocation of the restaurant to meet the environmental friendly objectives that can affect the geographic segmentation of targeted customers. Further efforts would be needed to address the relocation. Some of the strategies would include the incorporation of more value added products and communication to a broader audience base. Even if this decision took place, it would require Kennedy to offer more value added products, communicating with larger and different audience and catering for a broader range of sustainability. The change in the menu lists causes price list revision that can be a major additional cost to the business. Kennedy further wanted to relocate...
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...Poster 3: The Kitchen is the Key to Victory. This picture depicts a lady in a kitchen setting. There is an image of a large golden key instead of the word Key. This has more visual impact than using the word, it draws the eye of the viewer and makes them think more about the message being put across. The lady in the picture has a large saucepan in her hands which has steam coming out of it. There is a large aga style range behind her. The saucepan lid is on and the viewer cannot see what is in it. This allows the viewers imagination to create images of all sorts of delicious contents, in the hope of that it creates thoughts of alternative meals to bread. The words The Kitchen is the Key to Victory are in golden letters to give a sense of the richness and prosperity that are to be associated with victory. Below these words are the words Eat Less Bread. These are in red for more impact and to get the message across, it is an instruction, not a request. This poster is one of the many posters which were used during rationing, it is designed to involve the viewer so that every citizen feels that they can help in the War effort, they don’t have to be fighting on the front line or working in the factories making weapons, tanks or planes. It makes the housewife’s left behind feel that they have a huge part to play in the War effort which will then drive them to economise helping to alleviate the pressure on the Government to feed the population. Poster 4: More Aeroplanes are Needed...
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...The Appositive Recognize an appositive when you see one. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. Look at these examples: The insect, a cockroach , is crawling across the kitc hen table. The insect, a large cockroach , is crawling across the kitchen table. The insect, a large cockroach with hairy legs , is crawling across the kitchen table. The insect, a large, hairy-legged cockroach that has spied my bowl of oatmeal , is crawling across the kitchen table. Here are more examples: During the dinner conversation, Clifford, the messiest eater at the table , spewed mashed potatoes like an erupting volc ano. My 286 computer, a modern-day dinosaur , chews floppy disks as noisily as my brother does peanut brittle. Genette' s bedroom desk, the biggest disaster area in the house , is a collec tion of overdue library books, dirty plates, computer components, old mail, cat hair, and empty potato chip bags. Reliable, Diane's eleven-year-old beagle , chews holes in the living room carpeting as if he were still a puppy. Punctuate the appositive correctly. The important point to remember is that a nonessential appositive is always separated from the rest of the sentence with comma(s). When the appositive begins the sentence, it looks like this: A hot-tempered tennis player, Robbie charged the umpire and tried to crac k the poor man's skull with a rac ket. When...
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