Word: thyme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning...
...quire of virgin folio paper" and, under the influence of Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote his first adventure story (Dead Man's Rock). He also "asked the lady of my affection to be my wife. We had halted . . . beside a low wall coped by a quantity of wild thyme, on a tuft of which I rested a hand as I spoke and waited for her answer. To this day, halting before a tuft of the plant I press it and it recalls that answer in its fragrance." In "the general security of life . . . 'we fleeted the time carelessly...
...wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning...
...sources out, U.S. trade prices have risen from 7? to $1.35 a pound. When spice-grinders tried to use wild California sage instead, it could not be sold because t smacked of turpentine. Though a sprinking of backyard sage may help out, such supplies will not be commercially important. >Thyme came from France. No U.S. horticulturist is yet growing it commercially. > Best paprika came from Hungary. A little still arrives from Portugal and Spain, but even that may be cut off before a 350-acre paprika experiment in Louisiana is successful. > Spanish saffron, used to color and flavor fancy rolls...