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chained_bear commented on the word nutmeg grater
This is actually a bit of an inside joke at my employer, which once published an artsy coffee-table book on silver nutmeg graters.
Imagine my surprise to read this, about possets in the seventeenth century:
"Soon, it would be considered the height of elegance to carry a little silver nutmeg grater in your pocket -- one quick rasp of the nut over your drink, your dish of cream or cup of chocolate transformed it into a rather addictive kind of aromatic heaven."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 137
January 11, 2017