1.   Hennessy knelt over a portable stove, where he will cook hundreds of the meals in a grassy patch of the base that has been cleared of mines.

2.   Portable stoves sit on desks, but there is no kerosene with which to cook.

3.   Some years ago, we instituted our Hannukah family picnic at the park, where we play baseball and bring portable stoves to make our latkes outside.

4.   There are warehouses in New York City filled with plates, portable stoves, blenders, even pig spits, waiting to be rented.

5.   This is the spirit of people who camp in the mud, brew tea on portable stoves, sing the day away while staring at tarpaulins.

6.   People slept on their luggage, cooked on portable stoves and shared a lunchbox or a stick of sugar cane bought from street vendors.

7.   Candles, fuel and portable stoves were hard to find in some areas.

8.   Refrigerators clank to a stop and residents of this port city begin to grumble about yet another evening of cooking dinner on portable camp stoves.

9.   Some people with no gas for cooking and hot water have been using portable stoves.

10.   Some slept on straw mats beside sacks, plastic bags and fraying cardboard boxes crammed with portable stoves, cooking oil, toy cars and other belongings.