Hints and tips:
...George V, should be served with Cypriot brandy sauce....
...This year, they have a brandy-infused one I’ll be using....
...If one definition of comfort food is food we make for ourselves on autopilot, toast is king....
...With its celebrated distilleries, fortified medieval gates, admittedly dour castle (the birthplace, in 1494, of France’s great renaissance king François I) and narrow streets of half-timbered houses, Cognac...
...King wanted the new Manzi’s to retain the fun and frivolity of its forefather....
...[The pear grows inside the bottle, like a mini greenhouse, and the bottle is then filled with brandy.]...
...Craddock was the “king of cocktail shakers”. His fame had a lot to do with his élan, as well as the Savoy, a magnificent stage for any bartender....
...This January it gets a new lease of life when it opens as Canfranc Estación, a Royal Hideaway Hotel (named in deference to the fact that the original station was opened by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and...
...By the early 20th century, 98 per cent of naval officer cadets were outfitted by Gieves and, as the Senior Service was intimately connected to the royal family, kings, princes and dukes were among Gieves...
...Opies cherries also litter the drinks list at the delightfully kitsch new Café BAO in Kings Cross....
...There’s a brandy and spiced apple toddy, too. @alicelascelles Where are you staying warm, eating substantially and socialising outdoors this winter?...
...End the evening with a trademark brandy and, should you still be mobile, walk off your dinner with a stroll down the south bank of the river, which is mere feet away. 2....
...Let the carrot be king this Christmas, if just for one day....
...“John Wick is excommunicado,” the message goes out from the High Table, a hit-man club whose palatial hotel is run by Ian McShane, quaffing brandy while the doors clang with internecine mayhem....
...It was a cultural discovery that elevated an enjoyable break into a brush with the extraordinary, and it begins in 1153 with a long-forgotten king, Géza II of Hungary....
...Behind that paltry disguise is an interior furnished in lush 18th-century style, with a delicate rose slipper chair, a crystal candelabrum, fake Wedgwood china and delicate brandy decanters shaped like ducks...
...Whisky turns out to be a strikingly good match for Chinese food, particularly the assorted spicy flavours of Sichuanese dishes, where it is conspicuously better than either grape wines or brandies....
...Vikram Seth adds meat curry and rice to a menu of cream of asparagus soup, fried fish, mushroom vol-au-vents and Christmas pudding with brandy sauce in A Suitable Boy....
...This former sheep farm in the far south-east is now a five-mile-long nature reserve bordered by small islands waggishly named Rum, Brandy and Whisky....
...This spiced apple brandy punch is a recipe I’ve made many times....
...In the fall we forage for mushrooms, particularly the king boletes that grow near the coastal pines, and the chanterelles found in the forest moss....
...The turning point for gin came in 1689 with the crowning of the Dutch William of Orange as King....
...Hal (later Henry V) was a wrought-iron candlestick and Falstaff an appropriately rotund brandy bottle....
...Each pays homage to past office-holders: Roy Jenkins, Labour party reformer and grand gourmand; Gaston Thorn, plucky Luxembourger; and Jacques Delors, the French philosopher king who helped to build the...
...Brandy producer Emperador acquired Spanish brandy and sherry cellar Bodegas Fundador in December 2015....
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