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...kinds of people were swarming around the 9500 seats--journalists, citizens of Omaha, major league scouts squinting through smoke and hat brims in the flat Nebraska sun. The reporter must have wondered how on earth he was going to come up with something lyrical about Omaha to spice up the day's coverage...
From the little five dollar spice bottles (like the picture on the left) to the huge jars (like those on the right) which will never be made again, these are presents that won't be forgotten. Since this is the only collection of its kind in the world, each one is cataloged and numbered. Long after the last one is sold (nationwide sales have already eliminated five categories), our master catalog will pinpoint each owner and every jar. Each is accompanied with its certificate, signed by our curator, and a special illustrated booklet detailing the history of Agassiz, the collection...
...President C.V. Wood, retired, undefeated world chili champ. Joe DeFrates, 67, of Springfield, Ill., winner of the California cookoff, concocted his "horse-and-buggy" chili from lean beef, peppers and his own chili powder. The Texas champion, Susie Watson of Houston, used a similar recipe, plus an arcane spice derived from pine cones. Even in Texas, none of the chili heads used the "greaseless" Pedernales River recipe favored by Lyndon Johnson. "L.B.J.'s stuff," growled an oldtimer, "was just low-torque beef gruel...
...fascination with herbs-plants valued for specific medicinal, culinary or aromatic uses-has grown so fast in recent years that the demand for herb plants and seeds has wafted to every corner of the country. Dried and fresh herbs, used for millenniums in teas, elixirs, salves and perfumes to spice food and please the nostril, are enjoying a luxuriant comeback in city stores and country herb farms. Then too there are tens of thousands of private herb gardens...
...Priestley, 80, whose acerbic novels of British working-class life go back over half a century, sets his SALT IS LEAVING (Harper & Row; 247 pages; $6.95) in contemporary England. The spice of the title is a wordy, forty-fivish general practitioner anxious to pull out of provincial Birkden as soon as he can track down a vanished patient. Noreen Wilkes is certain to die if she goes without treatment for a rare kidney disease. She has been missing for three weeks when Dr. Salt goes to the police convinced that Miss Wilkes has been murdered. Next, the impeccably respectable...