Word: citron
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...bright green, oblong fruit which grows on small evergreen trees, citron uncooked is about as unpalatable as raw fowl; its pulp is bitter, its rind thick and tough. After being soaked in brine and cooked in syrup, however, it has a sugary quality much like other candied fruit. Some 5,000,000 lb. of citron are used annually in U. S. fruitcakes, candies and pastries, yet the fruit has never been produced in quantities in the U. S.; most of it comes from Sicily, Italy, the West Indies...
...Herbert J. Webber, a University of California citrus expert, traveled through the Mediterranean countries, brought back a few citron buds. Some of these he gave to Edwin Giles Hart, an enterprising fruitgrower who was then trying to raise other citrus fruits in La Habra, Calif. Onetime miner and realtor, Edwin Hart has always hunted for new things to produce. He started experimenting with avocados in 1905. Eventually tackling citron, he discovered that it could survive California's climate when grafted to the rough lemon. Three years ago he produced some 10,000 lb. of citron...
...uncooked citron is highly perishable, Grower Hart will not wait for fall when processors begin buying for the holiday season. Instead, he will process most of the 1938 crop himself, and this, he expects, will boost his profits. Fresh citron sells for 5? to 8? a lb.; after processing it brings 20? to 25?; retailers charge 39? to 45?. Mr. Hart will sell direct to West Coast grocers, will distribute nationally through Calavo Growers of California, cooperative wholesalers with 35 outlets throughout the U. S. Meanwhile, he is interesting food research groups. At present they are trying to prove that...
Suddenly among the Bagdad's sippers of tea, Dubonnet and citron presse appeared Miss Warner in a clinging, translucent gown, her hands manacled at the wrists, her mien intense. She had invented her "Slave Dance" after being distanced by the competition of Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago's Century of Progress and now considered herself "The Poetess of Naked Rhythm." To the Boverat family it appeared that a blonde hussy had suddenly interrupted their tea. She startled them further by rapidly removing what seemed to be all her clothes, casting off her manacles with a bang...
...many years a pupil of Kenneth Hayes Miller, who paints similar subjects, Artist Citron is apparently essaying the well-known Miller technique, with the effect that her paintings paraphrase the work of Satirist Reginald Marsh. Her colors are the same, so is her drawing, so are her thin oils on gesso covered wooden panels...