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BOX DATE: 1992
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
SPECIAL FEATURES: Fold out counters; removable burners
PERSONAL FUN FACT: My dad's friend Steve found this Cooking Center, our Mini Mart, and our third Camp Barbie at a yard sale. He grabbed all three items, knowing that my sister and I are huge doll collectors. This was sometime in 2011 or 2012. When we saw him a few months later, he gave us the gifts, which totally floored us! We greatly appreciated his kindness--words really can't express how grateful we are, even to this day. The Cooking Center and the Mini Mart were still fully sealed in their boxes. They smelled very moldy though, even after I washed everything. Of course, they weren't as rank as Camp Barbie. She had mold all over her legs and body...and was quite stinky for a few years (even after many baths). I know for a fact that Colleen and I would have adored this stove when we were younger because making our dolls cook was one of our favorite pastimes! It was one of those simple separately sold kitchen appliances, that were so common in the 90s. I had a separately sold stove/oven as a kid. It was a very different mold and had starkly different accessories. I like that this one is unlike any other stoves I have in my collection. It's compact, but has a ton of unique features. I took a separate photo of it converted, so you can really appreciate how versatile it is!
The orphanage had a very generous group come and build them a kitchen several years back. Unfortunately, issues arose with the way the stove vents, and they can no longer use the kitchen building. They now make most of their food over an open fire in a small, covered building.
With ambient temperatures away from the fire being in the mid-90s and heat index figures reaching well into the 100s, cooking inside this structure was a very uncomfortable task.
The woman pictured here is making banku. These women have to cook three times a day for over 150 people. What a challenge.
Ran errands with Jeff before he had to go to work. I had to restock our bar with gin and sweet vermouth and got carded at the liquor store — which left me wondering what underage person would buy that combination of booze?
Later I prepared a marinade for the cookoff the next day, and hung out watching Twilight Zone episodes by myself.
172/365.
Cooking without any liquid, heating, gas or other resources; it's very much possible. In Uganda cook with the power of the sun. With a reflecting 'pot' which absorbs a lot of heat food can be made without any expenses.
I went to see some people using the solar cooking installation in their household.
For more info: solarcookingkozon.nl/
PLYMOUTH NC: KAROL'S GOOD COOKING: Ever wonder why an eatery would post a sign such as "GOOD COOKING?" Or, how about, "COOKED TO PERFECTION?" This drives me nuts. One would presume the cooking IS good and the food IS perfect.
OK, it's just me again. ;-)
Sadly, Karol's has gone out of business.
Cooking with Booze! On the telly!
In which Oz Clarke claims it's his favourite book. 2nd Edition endorsement!
They make Wine Soup, Highland Fondue. Badly. Also mentioned: Beer Butt Chicken.
"Oz and Hugh Raise the Bar", Episode 2, BBC2, January 2011.