"We lost the signal as planned at 11 17 p.m. Eastern and there is nothing we could do but trust we had prepared it well to set off on its journey on its own," said Alice Bowman, New Horizons' mission operations manager.
Eduardo was not simply evaluating his liver; he was evaluating how well he himself had prepared it.
BEFORE unveiling Portugal's harshest budget in living memory this week, Vítor Gaspar, the finance minister, praised the hard work of the civil servants who had prepared it.
NASA had prepared it as a rescue vehicle for the last flight of the Endeavour, in May, and it would have gotten off the ground only if the Endeavour had encountered trouble while in orbit.
The servers might be wearing jeans, but they know the food as well as if they had prepared it themselves; they offer passionate descriptions to flesh out chef John Cochran's minimalist script, which he prints just before dinner, allowing him to incorporate last-minute finds from the market.
Ms. Reichl, who pointed out that cookbooks are selling better than ever, said that each time she opened her copy of a cookbook containing the recipe for b'stilla (a Moroccan chicken dish), she was reminded of the many times she had prepared it.
