Hints and tips:
...Sarit looked the other way as we hung tinsel from the restaurant’s very lovely new light fittings....
...“Mussolini ordered [ . . . ] the location to be adorned with buildings and shrines fitting for the ways of humanity in the year 1940,” reads the inscription on the hotel’s façade, which is adorned with reliefs...
...And to finish, a Christmas pudding, flaming in Vieille Prune and lots of brandy butter. I eat Christmas pudding for the brandy butter. To drink?...
...In the absence of a coffin, it is believed the barrel was filled with brandy to preserve the body for the journey home....
...It also serves blackberry brandy made by its deli offshoot, The Delicatessen....
...Carne Griffiths’ inky calligraphy, awash with tea, brandy, vodka and whisky, and Jo Peels’ eloquent acrylics of metropolitan decay lend softness to this fair’s urban edge....
...This includes the urinals, which Worlington’s secretary, Scott Ballentine, points out are made by Shanks (in the pre-Armitage days); the most fitting brand name you’ll ever see on porcelain at a golf club...
...If you don’t like the sweet taste of port, the best drink to try is one of Portugal’s best kept secrets, ginjinha: cherry brandy....
...Once the pudding – consumed with roughly equal quantities of brandy butter – was dispensed with, dessert proper could start....
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