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...prawns, barely yet precisely grilled to retain their lucidity and sweetness, are a signature dish, served with wild strawberries and a showering of subtly flavorful petals including borage, fennel, hyssop and yarrow. The surprises of taste and texture might continue with something like savory-sweet fresh-pea soup and nasturtium ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taste of the Earth at Mirazur | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...seminars" conducted by scholars on such hip topics as "The Role of Jazz in American Culture." New to the scene was a pair of Russian wolfhounds representing Wolfschmidt vodka, and a "fashion-jazz spectacular" titled "Newport Is a Lark" and featuring such jazz-inspired fashions as a Bop Period "nasturtium-colored velveteen jacket lined and piped with hot pink shantung." Musical novelty: the "first authentic American jazz ballet," a 22-minute retelling of the Harlequin-Columbine story to music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. The ballet's major character innovations were a bop-goggled Pantaloon and a Beat Generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Summer Bashes | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...developed Griffin partly with the profits from another beast, named Nasturtium. Bought by Aste as a yearling for $4,300, Nasturtium bloomed into the best two-year-old race horse of 1901. "The bluebloods must have got worried," Aste related with relish, decades later: "A bootblack with a champion!" William C. Whitney, one of that period's great turfmen, wanted to buy Nasturtium. Aste demanded a price then considered outrageous-$50,000-and set a deadline of noon the next Saturday when this offer would be withdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Boots & Saddles | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...price until Aste, looking at his watch, said coldly, "You have two minutes to make up your mind, Mr. Whitney." At noon sharp, Whitney bought the horse, paying $50,000 in crisp new $1,000 bills, which helped to build the Griffin Co. Shipped to England for the Derby, Nasturtium failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Boots & Saddles | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...psychiatrists, but also very close to being dealers in idle speculation instead of physicians. No, the mental process is simpler than that ... I read all the signs along the road; my wife sees all the flowers. Why am I so blind as to think a petunia and a nasturtium look alike, and she so blind that she reads 'I am not rich' as 'I am now rich?' . . . When I call a chrysanthemum a gardenia, just call it ignorance, and not evidence of a repressed destructive wish toward mums, mummy, mammy, mommy and mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mum's the Word | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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