I had to look up Cold Boiled and it is just some meat, usually mutton, beef or ham, that had been boiled and then cooled off. They boiled a lot of food because the fat from the meat would go into a broth and so no calories would be wasted. I never considered this as a reason for boiling things so much and feel bad about thinking they were bad cooks.
No wonder there was so much boiled food in the 1950s that we mock now. People were using techniques that helped them through two world wars and the great depreasion.
"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."
Can we send this out to every bad CEO who wonders why employees are leaving their company an mass? Like Dickens brilliantly illustrates here, how you treat people is as important, or even more so, as how much you pay them.
I had to look up Cold Boiled and it is just some meat, usually mutton, beef or ham, that had been boiled and then cooled off. They boiled a lot of food because the fat from the meat would go into a broth and so no calories would be wasted. I never considered this as a reason for boiling things so much and feel bad about thinking they were bad cooks.
No wonder there was so much boiled food in the 1950s that we mock now. People were using techniques that helped them through two world wars and the great depreasion.
"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."
Can we send this out to every bad CEO who wonders why employees are leaving their company an mass? Like Dickens brilliantly illustrates here, how you treat people is as important, or even more so, as how much you pay them.
I like how he’s realizing what made his boss great in the past, and that he isn’t kind to his employee.
I thought "bran-new" might have been a typo, but no! It's a wonderful, archaic variation of brand-new.