As it turned out, the dinner was perhaps the most labor-intensive meal in history.
There's a secret shibboleth the regulars are in on — namely, that to demand an unusual and labor-intensive meal in exchange for a big tab might somehow be transactional and naïve, an activity for hobbyists or tourists.
The idea of a reprieve from a terrible sacrifice, I realized, was not so dissimilar from the idea of survival in a new land, particularly if it was contemplated over a delicious and labor-intensive meal.
They speculated that men may have been conditioned to prefer hot or labor-intensive meals (conjuring up memories of their mothers taking care of them), while women seek convenient foods (a form of self-indulgence).
Using a dual-flow continuous culture fermenter system, this study evaluated the effect of timing of corn silage supplementation on ruminal digestion and nutrient flows following a short and intensive orchardgrass herbage meal.
Certainly they're adaptable to a casual, if work-intensive, Saturday night home meal.
Far more labor-intensive than a regular meal would have been, Mr. Penkalski's dinner, he said, was "deconstructed," in honor of the fact that all three writers at his table were practitioners and enthusiasts of deconstruction in literature.
Until now, no study had investigated the effects of a meal consumed after intensive exercise on hemorheologic factors (i.e., blood viscosity, RBC deformability, and aggregation properties).
Because this seemed inconsistently effective, our group at OHSU eventually stressed testing before meals and at bedtime and based adjustments of mealtime insulin on these values and the anticipated size of each meal for most intensive participants.
Another labor-intensive task was that of spreading meal.
