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Because the kitchen is unusable, Blanca has to wash her dishes in the bathtub, and she has improvised a cooking area with a gas camping stove in a corner of her living room.

This headache could become a thing of the past with a new bill in the California Legislature that, if approved, would require landlords to provide refrigerators and stoves in their rentals.

I could stand at the stove, tasting, adjusting, adding a little more of this, a little less of that—always able to fix it if something went wrong.

Sugar will continue to rise in temperature even when the stove is turned off due to both the pan and sugar solution retaining heat.

There were often surprise presents delivered in the truck: One birthday, it was a purple wisteria tree; one Valentine’s day, it was a vintage O’Keefe & Merritt stove.