21.   In Boston, teenagers cook gourmet meals or stage mock trials after apprenticeships with volunteer chefs and lawyers.

22.   Instead of feasting on gourmet meals, walkers enjoy pub lunches and picnics.

23.   Instead of standing in line for three hours for a pound of rancid bacon, Russians could be ordering gourmet meals over the Internet.

24.   Many at-home parents feel their focus is on the children, not on having an immaculate house at all times or serving a gourmet meal each night.

25.   Maxa tends toward the upscale, even bringing gourmet meals on airlines where dinner is a sack lunch.

26.   Multi-course gourmet meals, bedrooms with views of the San Francisco Bay from tiny East Brother Island.

27.   Pampering begins and ends with gourmet meals.

28.   She was always proud to boast that during the Depression, when my grandfather brought home very little money, she still managed to make gourmet meals every day.

29.   She cooked gourmet meals and cultivated orchids.

30.   Students also organize cocktail receptions and gourmet meals, each with a theme, and a series of seminars.