Word: yarrow
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...sweetest miniature broad beans, scattered with chive flowers and effervescent with just-picked flavor. Rare San Remo red prawns, barely yet precisely grilled to retain their lucidity and sweetness, are a signature dish, served with wild strawberries and a showering of subtly flavorful petals including borage, fennel, hyssop and yarrow. The surprises of taste and texture might continue with something like savory-sweet fresh-pea soup and nasturtium ice cream...
...Albert Grossman, a Chicago entrepreneur, at the first Newport Folk Festival, in 1959. Bob Dylan, whose manager Grossman became in 1962, may have been that prince, but the raspy-voiced kid needed troubadours to sell his message to the masses. Grossman had seen Travers perform with her friends Peter Yarrow and Noel Stookey; he took them on, changed Noel's name to Paul and got the group a contract with the new Warner Bros. Records. Peter, Paul and Mary's self-titled first album (1962) went to No. 1 and stayed in the Top 20 for two years...
...their scrupulous borrowings, PP&M's most memorable hit came from within the group. When Yarrow was at Cornell, a fellow undergraduate, future indie filmmaker Lenny Lipton, had written a poem in the spirit of Ogden Nash; Yarrow set it to music, and a few years later the trio recorded "Puff the Magic Dragon." This children's song, with its fanciful friendship and lilting chorus, would dominate the Top 40 and be sung in summer camp forever after. To the cognoscenti, this was a drug song in pop-music code: Puff, drag-on, "little Jackie Paper." Hipsters began referring...
...folkies like the Highwaymen and the Brothers Four at concerts that PBS liked to air in prime time during every pledge week. Travers, by then on her fourth husband, had put on quite a few pounds, but she never lost the potent alto that blended so becomingly with Yarrow and Stookey's voices...
...Could this be another sign of improved relations between Clinton and Al Gore, the former-vice-president-cum-enviro superstar? A Clinton spokesman dodged the question. ?I know that as an Administration, they were both advocates of the environment,? said Ben Yarrow, deputy communications director at the Clinton Foundation. ?It seems only natural that they would both continue...