In the nineteen-twenties, she engineered model kitchens one was called the Kitchen Efficient and purported to eliminate, for instance, five out of every six steps in the making of coffee cake.

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But is your question about whether a person should ever ask to take food home? (To which the answer is: probably not, although you can drop hints about the coffee cake and see what happens.) Or are you wondering about how you should have behaved once someone did pose that question?

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At many locations world-wide, coffee, cake and other refreshments were available to those who waited.

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Nearly every cafe serves Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee and cake) at 3pm sharp.

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With the new logo, his coffee bags caught the eye of one of the owners of the cake shop Miette, who decided to serve his coffee at her stand (and, ultimately, married Mr. Freeman).

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We followed the suggestion of our knowledgeable server and chose the roasted kohlrabi-turnip soup (with horseradish, chive oil and edible flowers), the trio of lamb (loin, rack and belly, prepared three different ways) and the imperial chocolate dessert (a warm pudding cake with spiced ice cream and coffee sauce).

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This cake keeps well for days at room temperature and is wonderful with steaming-hot coffee or tea.

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The man makes French toast and waffles and ham and eggs and pancakes and cereal and Pop-Tarts and brownies and hot dogs and hamburgers and baked Alaska and a birthday cake in the shape of a castle and pours glasses of milk and orange juice and coffee and Tang and Kool-Aid and water and puts ice in all of the glasses.

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