by Andrew Lin, Emily Morgan, Jordan Smith, and Kartik Venkatram
Solution - Meta
Each answer in a red box is an ingredient fed to the cookie machine; each answer in a green box clues an operation. Deduce the meaning of each operation to find the final answer, ORGANIC WHITE EGGPLANT:
The operations, reading columnwise from left:
- FUSION AND FISSION clues that the letters of TRUMAN and RUSSIA should be fused together and then broken apart again; indeed, TRUMAN and RUSSIA anagram to STARS and URANIUM, apropos to the clue phrase.
- The WET INGREDIENTS of the PROMISED LAND are MILK and HONEY.
- The inputs to ELEVENTH all clue numbers: CHEMISTRY 27 = 27, URANIUM = 92, 1110111 = 119, COFFEE CANTATA = (BWV) 211, and 330 = 330. These form a Fibonacci sequence (27 + 92 = 119; 92 + 119 = 211; 119 + 211 = 330), of which the eleventh element is 5978. Note that, as it must be, this step is solvable without CHEMISTRY 27.
- HONEY BRUCE's HUSBAND was LENNY.
- EVEN OUT clues that the second, fourth, and sixth letters of CLAIROL should be removed to yield CARL.
- Use Harvard's COURSES OF INSTRUCTION (2006) to find that the course with catalog number 5978 is CHEMISTRY 27, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY OF LIFE.
- The PALETTE of the STARS and STRIPES is naturally RED, WHITE, AND BLUE.
- A drink whose ingredients are CHOCOLATE SYRUP, MILK, and CARBONATEd water is a NEW YORK EGG CREAM.
- LENNY and CARL of the Simpsons work at the SPRINGFIELD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
- Take one element from each four-word answer to form a CHIMERA, namely ORGANIC WHITE EGGPLANT.