Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cocktails (J. martini, F. rye) with appetizer: hickory nuts from island; raw carrots and celery; tinned lobster, crab or anchovies; broiled giblets, etc., or pâateé de foie gras. Hot hors d'oeuvres on Japanese habachi, making blinis (small pancakes) for caviar and sour cream, broiled mushrooms, etc. Soup-tinned (wide choice) or from chicken or beef stock we have made. Or broiled lobster tails or cold boiled fish with mayonnaise. Entree-meat (generally chops, beefsteak, chicken or veal cutlet) or fish (lake trout au court bouillon), Chops and steak broiled over open fire. Chicken similarly broiled...
Researcher Hofmann moved from LSD to mushrooms thanks largely to Ethnologist (and a J. P. Morgan vice president) R. Gordon Wasson and his Russian-born wife, two dedicated, medical-minded mushroom eaters. The Wassons have voyaged all over the world seeking ritual devotees of exotic mushrooms and sharing their hallucinations, reported on their experiences in LIFE and in a $125 book (only 500 copies printed). Mushrooms, Russia and History. A French companion on their travels sent Hofmann specimens of one of the most potent mushrooms, Psyilocybe mexicana. From its little brown umbrella, perched on a delicate stem, Hofmann isolated...
...Nancy penned for her school paper the hot scoop on why her daddy always wears a bow tie: Soapy is sloppy with soup. At one dinner with the late Governor Frank Murphy, young Pol Williams eased himself into a dining-room chair, sloshed his four-in-hand in the mushroom soup, stood up, dripped more soup down his shirt front. Mother Williams rushed for cleaning gear, allowed the rolls to burn in the confusion, choking the guests with kitchen smoke. But the evening was not lost. Commented Nancy: "It did succeed in breaking the ice with guests, though, and shortly...
...supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance theory of chemical bonds. Among the signers of an earlier nuclear policy committee declaration and still standing foursquare behind the mushroom-cloud ad: Alabama's Rev. Martin Luther King...
Even more imposing than the committee's mushroom cloud was the committee's list of well-heeled and influential supporters. Among the signers of the Sane Nuclear Policy declaration: Committee Co-Chairman Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review; former Democratic National Committeewoman India Edwards...