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Have them to your home for a holiday or post-holiday dinner and spoil them with their favorite dishes.

"One single bar of soap is used to wash hair, body, socks, underwear, and dishes," she wrote.

This gave way to ever-more-sophisticated accounting and management strategies that employed metrics for the depreciation of slave worker value and the dishing out of incentives—both rewards and punishments—for their performance.

But who has the time or the energy to polish silverware, transfer mains and sides into nice dishes, and lay a table?

Some people wash dishes as they cook; others pay off their credit cards after every transaction.