Don't you dare get rid of that nutmeg grinder! ... or at least mail it to me. 
I think I had a grinder. If so, I will probably run a cross it sooner or later. When that happens, I guess I should ask you for your shipping address? ..
I agree, I love the magic of cooking too etc and av does use ginger, vanilla and a bunch of other flavors. Do you have RFLWD? I (or we) even got a three pot slow cooker recently and I made a meal for my cooked food eater in it. I was anticipating once the the food started getting near done it would fill the house with familiar aromas of time past. It did cook, but it kept the food smell well in its pots. The smell that filled the room (IMO) instead was like burnt plastic or something like that. It didn't look like it was getting damaged. I said something to dh, and he said that's normal with these devices, that they always smell like that the first few times, but that there's no harm to anything. Actually, I was disappointed in the smell, as although I didn't want to smell the cooking food, I would have much preferred it over plastic. When I did eat cooked food growing up and later which was often a little of every meal, we (or I) used cooking gas.
I love the way on a raw food diet so little spice is needed, if any .. a little goes a long way. A recipe that might normally take .. say .. six different spices at once may taste just as good with only three spices and I do mean not increasing the quantities of even the three .. or two.
If you go looking for singular toxins out of context you head will start to reel and you will stop eating anything. Takes nuts in general for instance. Yeah - they have things in them are bad that's why you don't want to try to live on them exclusively, but there are also loads of great things in them.
I don't consider spices to be food. I love food, they don't need spice for me. Starches do, need spice for me. I consider that spices are often used to prevent worms and parasites that are gotten with starch foods.
Some of AVs meat pastes or sauces contain nuts, but he has his ways of avoiding the pitfalls of nut toxins. He has mentioned that the reason he has recipes of spice pastes etc is so that when from time to time when he loses his desire to taste meat, he makes the spiced meat dishes to get him over that hump. He wrote the recipe book to help others with similar (plus there's lots of valuable information in it). His spice mixes each or many contain a wide variety of different spices in each one. I don't think any contain nutmeg though. Like you say, "singular toxins". Who needs it? Many people are using raw paleo diet to heal, not because they are already healthy and are ready for the magically spiced recipes. Many have neurological damage, and might do well to stay away from things like cacao and nutmeg that have a painful effect on parts of their nerve tissue.