title: Rescuing the Dinner Hour: Easy Meals for Busy People
author:  Peggy K. Glass 
description: I couldn't wait for Peggy's new book. Her recipes are great . . . healthy, easy, and enjoyable! --<i>Joan Nathan, author, Jewish Cooking in America</i>
zlib_text: Patricia Highsmith
  THE PRICE OF SALT
  
  CHAPTER 1
  THE LUNCH HOUR in the co-workers' cafeteria at Frankenberg's had reached its
  peak.
  There was no room left at any of the long tables, and more and more people
  were arriving to wait back of the wooden barricades by the cash register.
  People who had already got their trays of food wandered about between the
  tables in search of a spot they could squeeze into, or a place that somebody
  was about to leave, but there was no place. The roar of dishes, chairs, voices,
  shuffling feet, and the bra-a-ack of the turnstiles in the bare-walled room was
  like the din of a single huge machine.
  Therese ate nervously, with the "Welcome to Frankenberg" booklet propped up
  in front of her against a sugar container. She had read the thick booklet
  through last week, in the first day of training class, but she had nothing else
  with her to read, and in the co-workers' cafeteria, she felt it necessary to
  concentrate on something. So she read again about vacation bene