From 1921 to 1936 Devambez had an exclusive contract with one of the leading poster artists of the day, Leonetto Cappiello. His most famous posters are for Parapluies Revel, La Belle Jardinière, Cachou Lajaunie, Bouillons Kub, and Le Théâtre National de l’Opéra.Jack Rennert, The Posters of Leonetto Capiello, 2007.
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The forerunner of sulfur dyes is attributed to "Cachou de Laval," which is prepared by treating wood products with sulfide sources. Subsequently, the so-called Vidal Blacks were produced by reactions of various aniline derivatives with sulfur. These experiments demonstrated that deeply colored materials could be readily produced by combining aromatic compounds and sulfur sources.Parikshit Goswami, Montu Basak "Sulfur Dyes" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 2001, John Wiley & Sons. .
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A chocolate cake decorated with icing, strawberries, and silver metallic dragées Another form of dragée is a small sphere of sugar, in the Commonwealth often called a cachou, used primarily in the decoration of cookies, cakes, and other forms of bakery. These are produced in various sizes, typically in diameter. This is larger than nonpareils and smaller than large pearl tapioca. Silver dragées have long been used for both wedding and holiday food decoration.
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Modern cough drops Early 20th century "Frog In Your Throat" box A pocket tin containing small salmiak liquorice pastilles in the traditional diamond shape lozenge. In Europe, salmiak liquorice pastilles are considered a "traditionally-applied medicine to assist expectoration in the airways" Valda Mint Eucalyptus Gumdrops A throat lozenge (also known as a cough drop, troche, cachou, pastille or cough sweet) is a small, typically medicated tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to temporarily stop coughs, lubricate, and soothe irritated tissues of the throat (usually due to a sore throat), possibly from the common cold or influenza. Cough tablets have taken the name lozenge, based on their original shape, a diamond.
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Bottle of catechu Catechu Catechu ( or ) is an extract of acacia trees used variously as a food additive, astringent, tannin, and dye. It is extracted from several species of Acacia, but especially Senegalia catechu (Acacia catechu), by boiling the wood in water and evaporating the resulting brew.Cutch and catechu plant origin from the Food and Agriculture Department of the United Nations. Document repository accessed November 5, 2011 It is also known as cutch, black cutch, cachou, cashoo, terra Japonica, or Japan earth, and also in Hindi, in Marathi, in Assamese and Bengali, and in Malay (hence the LatinizedDerivation of word from Malay Acacia catechu chosen as the Linnaean taxonomy name of the type-species Acacia plant which provides the extract).
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