Word: alfalfaism
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...become a thriving agricultural and industrial community. Later this month Boeing will begin construction of a 42-in. irrigation pipeline. The company plans to plant a potato crop in March, and it has sublet part of the tract to Japanese chicken growers, who will use the land to grow alfalfa. To enrich the sandy soil. Boeing and a Portland group, Columbia Processors Cooperative, are experimenting with a fertilizer made from Portland's waste products. "Even for the Boeing Co.," says Aerospace Vice President Oliver Boileau, "it's never too late to start hauling manure, irrigating land and planting...
...tapping of congressional telephones by federal agents can only be a contemporary phenomenon, a creation of the confluence of modern electronics and widespread civic protest. Right? Well, hear Oklahoma Congressman William ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray: "The Secret Service watchfulness over the conduct of the Congressmen and public men began under Theodore Roosevelt and was nearly as bad under Wilson. They had my telephones tapped so long as I was in Congress." The words are from Murray's memoirs; he served in the House from...
...foods sold in organic shops can reach for the exotic: carrot cupcakes, sunflower-seed cookies and countless varieties of honey, including alfalfa, avocado, tupelo blossom, eucalyptus, mesquite and thistle. Manhattan's Good Earth market offers 13 varieties of dates (among them Halawy, Khadrawy and Zahidi*), three types of yogurt, including goat, organic ice cream and pizza and 125 types of herbal teas. The strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes and chicken can hardly be distinguished from those in conventional markets-except, aficionados insist, by healthfulness and taste. The most striking difference is price: 25% to 50% more than regular foods...
...emulsifying agents, used to help homogenize substances that do not normally mix (like fat in milk); sequestrants, which keep trace minerals from turning fats and oils rancid, and are also used to prevent some soft drinks from turning cloudy. In addition, the FDA has 80 "miscellaneous" GRAS substances from alfalfa to zedoary (an aromatic East Indian herb), from pipsissewa leaves to ylang-ylang, used as flavoring...
...Highgrove, Calif., last winter, a neighbor tipped the police that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edwards had on their back porch a suspicious package containing "a dark green vegetable substance that appeared similar to alfalfa but did not smell like alfalfa." Without a search warrant, the police rummaged in the Edwardses' backyard trash cans and found a few pinches of pot. They forced their way into the house, arrested the couple and proceeded to search the premises until, they claimed later, they found caches of marijuana and LSD. After the defendants were each sentenced to between one and ten years...