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...Cool slightly and add the brandy. Stir well and then funnel the syrup into the bottle. Label and refrigerate. Use within 4 weeks. To use: take 1-3 teaspoons when needed....
...A complete recipe does not survive, but it is believed to be a crème brûlée-style affair, slathered with brandy. In order to engineer its appearance, I shall need a stabbing....
...taxi), the newly restored 17th-century timber-frame building will have 14 rooms designed by the modish Dutch design agency buro Belén and a restaurant, De Mark, helmed by chefs Richard Oostenbrugge and Thomas...
...Grapes were always present during their banquets and events, so it comes as no surprise that this drink is made mostly of pressed white grapes and grape brandy — we even add a small bunch of grapes as the...
...I got a subscription and took cooking classes with Thomas Keller, a screenwriting course with Aaron Sorkin, and singing with Christina Aguilera....
...In the absence of a coffin, it is believed the barrel was filled with brandy to preserve the body for the journey home....
...The man who made the Blue Blazer famous was America’s first celebrity bartender, Jerry Thomas, in the mid-19th century....
...The book’s title tips a hat to Daniel Farson’s Soho in the Fifties, which chronicled, among others, Dylan Thomas. The great poet once remarked, deep in his cups, “Somebody’s boring me....
...The world’s first cocktail book, How to Mix Drinks by Jerry Thomas, published in 1862, and the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book — two seminal publications in the world of mixed drinks — also dedicate chapters to...
...What we’re all looking for is a new idea” said Julian Temperley, who runs the Somerset Cider Brandy company. “At the moment the industry’s going through a very rough patch”....
...There is a Thomas De Quincey dilemma that each literary generation, drawn by his luminous insights and poignant self-revelation, is forced to discover....
...both Ian Fleming, for a “new” James Bond novel (Devil May Care, 2008), and PG Wodehouse (Jeeves and the Wedding Bells , 2013), and, as a team captain on Radio 4’s The Write Stuff, parodied everyone from Thomas...
...Thomas Fremantle’s ship, he writes to his beloved Betsey, is given the melancholy honour of towing the Victory home after Trafalgar, pausing only in Gibraltar to re-pickle Nelson’s body in fresh brandy....
...I’m partial to cider brandy. My favourite is one called Shipwrecked from The Somerset Cider Brandy Company. It’s a single-cask brew and very warming....
...Great Dishes of the World, by Robert Carrier, 1963, Thomas Nelson & Sons In the 1970s kitchen of my childhood, Robert Carrier’s Great Dishes of the World stood out....
...been written about the architects of the United States’ postwar golden age – men like George C Marshall, Dean Acheson and George Kennan, in books such as The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas...
...By the 1580s there was a steady stream of new titles, such as Thomas Dawson’s The Good Huswife’s Jewell (1585) and The Good Housewife’s Treasury (1588)....
...“You cannot ignore the simmering frustration here,” says Thomas Doe Nah, executive director of the Centre for Transparency and Accountability....
...The gold medal was therefore awarded to Thomas Hicks, who had apparently wanted the win so badly that he ate egg whites and brandy laced with strychnine to boost his performance....
...That is not the opinion of Thomas Aquinas but of Vital Dufour, Franciscan prior of Eauze, who wrote a treatise in 1310 enumerating the benefits for mind, body and spirit of the brandy or aygue ardente made...
...They all did it: James Jones, Joseph Heller, JD Salinger, Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon each published war stories at the beginning of their careers....
...It is the melting-pot in action, the fulfilment of Thomas Jefferson’s “All men are created equal”....
...According to Dylan Thomas “someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do”. It’s a good joke....
...Then why not get yourself the double training simultaneously at St Thomas’.”...
...Norman Thomas di Giovanni, an editor and translator, began working with the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges on translations of Borges’ books in the late 1960s...
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