Word: nutmeg
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...ingredient may make a big difference in odor and taste. Therefore, attempts to 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...
William Gillette, the theater's late great Sherlock Holmes, was presumably at ease about the overwhelming stone castle and miniature railway he left on his hilltop estate at Hadlyme, Conn. The borzoi-faced star had been the live-steaming engineer on his three-mile Connecticut Nutmeg & Great Western, whipped his friends wildly about in its little observation cars. When he died in 1937 at the age of 71, he declared in his will: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind...
...becoming "more and more weary of politics. I didn't mind so much being on the losing side ... I even took some pride in it. ... At the best it was like rubbing one's fingers firmly over a nutmeg grater." But by 1932, Campaign Manager Ickes was in a position "remindful of the frustrated female who has often been a bridesmaid but never a bride." (He was "plainly," he admits, "not the vote-getting kind.") He watched breathlessly when two Senators (his friends Cutting and Johnson) were in turn offered, and declined, the Department of the Interior...
Stocks of East Indian pepper-the most mportant spice-will last two or three years. The romantic spices of the East cinnamon, cloves, mace and nutmeg), which Columbus sought, still reach the U.S., but only in dubious dribbles. Others are obtainable in the West Indies or Mexico. But even to uncritical U.S. palates, one spice is no substitute for another...