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...scattered back and forth watching for emergencies, as the never-ending column rolled through its own cloud of red dust. At night the motley army dozed in blankets or thick djellaba robes, with hoods pulled over their heads, and charcoal braziers glowed brick red as they brewed the omnipresent mint...
...STORY MIGHT READ BETTER as a novel, opening as it does with a scene that Sinclair Lewis would have loved: the meeting of the University of California Board of Regents, fresh from mint juleps at San Francisco's Bohemian and Pacific Union Clubs, with at least 10 millionaires out of 24 discussing whether they should raise tuition by a total of $4 million for the 1971-72 academic year. The scene is jolly--the men are "radiant as ten suns." Lewis might have said--and the tuition increase in passed. These men, and two women, don't worry about students...
...herb craze is directly linked to Americans' greatly heightened interest in cooking. No self-respecting cook would be without at least the culinary big four-thyme, basil, parsley and oregano-to which most gourmets would add rosemary, savory, sage, saffron, sassafras, tarragon, mint, chives, dill, lemon verbena, marjoram, fennel, sorrel, chervil, coriander, cumin, caraway and celery seed. From ajowan to zedoary, there are hundreds of other herbs available, in 17th century Herbalist John Parkinson's phrase, "for use and delight." To the delight of the vast army of health-food enthusiasts who use herbs, most of them...
...Hall points out in The Book of Herbs (Scribners; $7.95), to be published next month, "some of our old grandmothers' recipes are proving to be not so old-hat after all." For example, horehound, an age-old relief for coughs and sore throats, still sells briskly. Sage and mint teas, to name only two, are widely used to treat colds; and aspirin is made from salicylic acid, the essential chemical in willow bark, known as a palliative since the dawn of time. Safflower has long been grown for what is now known as "polyunsaturated" oil. Foxglove yields digitalis. Ephedrine...
...from which Pop art was sprouting. Though as a painter he was not interested in the icons of popular culture, Smith was fascinated by its mechanics, particularly by what happened to color and form in reproduction. The green in a color ad was not like grass; it was mint green, menthol green, a hue of such insinuating and saturated lushness that it belonged to an order other than nature. Color pages and Bendel's window displays gave Smith, fresh from the pinched dampness and grayness of England in the '50s, much the same sense of abundant, amoral pleasure...