Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crocker has found that flavor and smell are more closely related than most people heretofore realized: if one holds his nose, for example, an apple tastes much like an onion...
...find out how to synthesize spices by chemical analysis have not been successful. But an inventive Cambridge chemist named Ernest Charlton Crocker has just produced three synthetic spices very close to the real thing-nutmeg, cinnamon and white pepper. In so doing, he has used only his remarkable nose and taste buds...
...synthesize nutmeg, Crocker analyzed the natural spice with his tongue and nose, then tried hundreds of chemical combinations to get the right shades of odor and flavor. The result was a compound of more than 40 different ingredients, including several varieties each of phenols, alcohols, esters and aldehydes. All these were mixed in a meal ground to nutmeg's consistency...
...human nose is an extraordinarily sensitive organ: it can detect as little as a billionth of a milligram of an aromatic vapor; the tongue needs at least a million times that amount in order to taste...
...critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken's Outrageous Fortune. All four are hits...