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...mutton with the marinade called Baume Samaritain, composed of wine-old Burgundy, Beaune or Chambertin-and virgin olive oil. Into this balm, to which you have already added the usual condiments of salt, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, beside an atom of ginger root, put a pinch of cayenne, a nutmeg cut into small pieces, a handful of crushed jumper berries, and lastly a dessertspoon of powdered sugar (effective as musk in perfumery), which serves to fix the different aromas. Twice a day you will turn the gigot. Now we come to the main point of the preparation. After you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: AN ALICE B.TOKLAS SAMPLER | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...Recipe: Over mixed chopped fruit and nuts, throw pulverizations of black peppercorns (1 tsp.), a whole nutmeg, 4 cinnamon sticks, coriander (1 tsp.) and a bunch of dried, powdered cannabis sativa (marijuana plant). Mix sugar (1 cup) with a big pat of butter. Then combine the entire mess into a cake and cut into fudge-sized pieces. "It should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

According to Correspondent Alex Campbell, a South African Bushman will eat anything from a mouse to an elephant. In the Okovanggo swamps of Bechuanaland in 1951, he sampled a Bushman meal: "They produced an elephant foot, spiced with cloves, nutmeg, salt and pepper, wrapped in wet clay and baked for five hours in a scooped-out anthill. The result was a pleasant, jellylike dish which tasted like baked oyster. While waiting for it to bake we had an hors d'oeuvre which tasted like popcorn-fried flying ants and wild honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...suffer an allergy as well as a hangover. Not counting the olive in a Martini, Dr. Swartz lists some of the possible ingredients of gin that may cause an allergy: aniseed, caraway, cardamon, fennel or coriander seed, cinnamon, cloves, calamus root, licorice, orris root, sloeberries, juniper berries, nutmeg, orange or lemon peel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sniffles & Bumps | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Connecticut troopers, who pride themselves on their scientific methods of crime detection, had set a futuristic ambush for the criminally hasty. Using camouflaged radar, the Nutmeg finest can now detect a 45-plus speed even in the softest purring Cadillac...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nutmeg Cops Waive Lairs, Nab Speeders by Air Waves | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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