Outside it was already hot at 7:30 A.M., and it was getting hot in the kitchen.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

In the kitchen Mama was wiping the cupboards.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

I didn't hurry though it was cold and the Pedersen kid was in the kitchen.

There was the suggestion of ice water, and -- in spite of the protest `` We're not really thirsty '' -- Linda Kay, to escape the stuffy air and the smothering soft voices, hurried to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Leona, his little young wife, was reading the morning paper.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

As things happened, Morgan was installed in the Nob Hill residence of a magnate friend, whose kitchen swarmed with cooks of approved talent.

When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.

What I meant to say was that I started to start in on the dishes by gathering them all together in the kitchen sink.

Mr. Blatz was already taking measurements for a shelf above the kitchen sink.

At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves.

In the kitchen Glendora was despairingly picking chickens.

She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

It was in the kitchen, as she was watching the kettle, waiting for the water to boil, that he had grabbed for her.

Nellie was in the kitchen, had just come to work, when she heard Tim arguing with Julia in the living room.

General technocentric enthusiasm even led some designers to take the " work kitchen " approach even further, culminating in futuristic designs like Luigi Colani's " kitchen satellite " ( 1969, commissioned by the German high-end kitchen manufacturer Poggenpohl for an exhibit ), in which the room was reduced to a ball with a chair in the middle and all appliances at arm's length, an optimal arrangement maybe for " applying heat to food ", but not necessarily for actual cooking.

On passenger airliners, the kitchen is reduced to a mere pantry, the only function reminiscent of a kitchen is the heating of in-flight meals delivered by a catering company.

The astronauts ' food is generally completely prepared, dehydrated, and sealed in plastic pouches, and the kitchen is reduced to a rehydration and heating module.

During the papal conclave, 1878 ( the first in the Vatican since 1775 ) a common kitchen was used from meals and cardinals were barred from receiving food from the outside ; as this reduced the chances for communicating with the outside world during meals, the cardinals began objecting to eating with the conclavists and staff and were given a separate table.

The first gas stoves were rather unwieldy, but soon the oven was integrated into the base and the size reduced to fit in better with the rest of the kitchen furniture.

The smoke detector at the ceiling of the kitchen starts the alarm as soon as the level of smoke reaches a certain starting value, x, then the smoke detector stays in the alarm position until the level of smoke has been reduced to level y, after which the smoke detector is reset automatically to " normal ".

Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).

The main body of GC & CS, including its Naval, Military and Air Sections, was on the ground floor of the mansion, together with a telephone exchange, a teleprinter room, a kitchen and a dining room.

Each level also has its own kitchen, but these are much smaller than in the Upper Houses.

It has three single washrooms and one larger communal one, as well as its own kitchen.

Celery's surprisingly late arrival in the English kitchen is an end-product of the long tradition of seed selection needed to reduce the sap's bitterness and increase its sugars.

Polished granite is also a popular choice for kitchen countertops due to its high durability and aesthetic qualities.

IKEA uses cabinet-grade and furniture-grade MDF in all of its MDF products, such as PAX wardrobes and kitchen cupboards.

It is used mostly for hacking through bones as a kitchen knife or butcher knife, and can also be used for crushing via its broad side, typically garlic.

This is in contrast to the " kitchen sink " approach in its predecessors, the Mozilla Application Suite and Netscape 6 and 7.

The Ottoman system of Külliye, a building complex containing a mosque, a hospital, madrassa, and public kitchen and dining areas, revolutionized the education system, making learning accessible to a wider public through its free meals, health care and sometimes free accommodation.

These simple shotguns are often referred to as a " kitchen door gun " or a " farm gun " due to its low cost as a self-defense weapon.

Each level also has its own kitchen, but these are much smaller than in the Upper Houses.

In 1913 he attached a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and in 1914 selected a bottle-drying rack as a sculpture in its own right.

With time, its functions as dormitory, kitchen, parlour and so on were divided off to separate rooms or, in the case of the kitchen, a separate building.

Unit construction since its introduction has defined the development of the modern kitchen, with pre-manufactured modules using mass manufacturing techniques developed during World War II greatly bringing down the cost of a kitchen.

Though the fork's early history is obscure, the fork as a kitchen and dining utensil is generally believed to have originated in the Roman Empire, or perhaps in Ancient Greece ( though there are some evidence of its use in Mesopotamia ).

An early promotional music video was made of its title song, and a bizarre television commercial was also filmed that included excerpts from " Woe-Is-uh-Me-Bop ", silent footage of masked Magic Band members using kitchen utensils as musical instruments, and Beefheart kicking over a bowl of what appears to be porridge onto a dividing stripe in the middle of a road.

Vandervert ( 1980 / 1988 ) described in scientific detail a simple, every day illustration of an operational definition in terms of making a cake ( i. e., its recipe is an operational definition used in a specialized laboratory known as the household kitchen ).

A notable local dessert that traces its history to the kitchen of the Mysore palace is Mysore pak.