“Museum”is a slippery word.It first meant(in Greek)anything consecrated to the Muses:a hill,a shrine,a garden,afestival or even a textbook.Both Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum had a mouseion,a
explorers gave the nut its name in the l5th century, referring to it as coco,meaning “ghost” in their language.The outside appearance of coconuts reminded them of a ghost’s face,and the tree has had that name ever since. The coconut has varied uses.It is used to mak...