41.   For those seeking a shorter sample, a Vienna restaurant, Drei Husaren, sometimes offers three-hour courses in which participants prepare a meal and eat it.

42.   He dreams of eating sausages and prepares delicious meals in his head for friends.

43.   He uses cilantro and green onions from a garden he planted to prepare meals over an open flame.

44.   He went to nearby Pontault Combault, where his mother, Sonia, prepared a home-cooked meal of fejoada.

45.   He was cared for by his wife, also a novelist, who prepared macrobiotic meals for him.

46.   Her mother, with a houseful of hungry children to feed, became too ill to prepare meals for her brood.

47.   His meals were prepared by a nutritionist, and he was given three massages a week.

48.   Her condition became so severe that she was unable to prepare meals at home, hold a fork or glass, or even drive to work, she said.

49.   His sister prepared the meal, not a slapdash federal cook.

50.   Her mother, who was later found to have dementia, had forgotten about preparing meals.