"There are five sites which needed a little more preparation, mainly in the preparing and distribution of ration cards," he said.
From Sunday roasts to TV dinners, first-date romancing and the ubiquitous dinner party, we hear what makes the perfect spread for each situation, and how the preparing (and eating!) of food brings us closer together.
The LRB, which comes out fortnightly and is to be found nestling between the New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement in more genteel newsagents, is a long time in the preparing and should not be ingested in a hurry.
But given that the assessment has paid off, and the preparing and processing of the submissions is so time-consuming, the RAE is felt to have had its day.
Finally, a strictly limited number of servant staff are permitted for housekeeping and the preparing and serving of meals.
-- Ted Nugent.... the right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the preparing and creating, the technical and the artistic, the material and the spiritual, the project and the object, flow together without a break.
