Comments for Foodie Freak: The case against nutmeg at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://lakeconews.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:56:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6568/919/#comment-9469 About 30 years ago while visiting the huge Khan Al Khalili market in Cairo, I saw a big bin of nutmeg and asked for about half a pound. (I have a little nutmeg grater and was looking forward to fresh nutmeg in cookies.) The seller was aghast that I would be so brazen as to buy such a quantity right in front of my husband, since it\'s known mainly as an aphrodisiac and cure for impotence. - ofarrell Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:31:50 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6568/919/#comment-9441 for the morning chuckle. And the recipe, yumm. - Donna Christopher Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:56:37 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6568/919/#comment-9428 LOL Ross, When I was 17 I worked one summer for a well respected but very small food flavorings company. My basic job was to grind sacks of peanut skins through a machine, libraly poking with a broomstick so they would go down the chute. After grinding these at the rate of something like 4-6 sacks a day, they were loaded into a giant mixer to which was added 10 gallons of oil of nutmeg and then back through the grinder and a seive as \"artificial\" nutmeg powder for a major baking company. I smelled like nutmeg for a week after that, no matter how many showers I took. We had another company in town that made the jello powder, and sure enough if you were in line at a bank and smelled raspberry jello and looked around you would see one of the employees in line. - kd006 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:52:28 +0100