11. The night before the planes hit, Lydia Bravo cooked a pot of ribollita, the Tuscan stew of beans and greens. 12. The pieces, gray to brown and unglazed, were from earthenware cooking pots in a style known to archeologists as colono ware. 13. A majority of Africans are making new headway, whether on a national scale or just in terms of putting a little more food in village cooking pots. 14. Cooking pots full of corn bubbled on small fires that filled the compound with acrid smoke. 15. In surrounding neighborhoods, open fires were built in the middle of the streets to cook big pots of caldosa, a thick pork stew. 16. Most came carrying their own bedding and cooking pots. 17. Parsnips are sown in the spring for harvesting the following winter or even as late as spring, giving them a year to develop from seedbed to cooking pot. 18. Villagers, carrying little more than a few blankets and cooking pots, straggle into the Hazrat Sultan camp. 19. Women at the camp cooked pots of rice and beans and fried fish and plantains on coal brassieres. 20. More trucks followed carrying their gear -- cooking pots, mattresses, jerricans and the like. |