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...In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words....
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...I don’t know if Mum had spotted by then that he wasn’t the safest pair of hands, or if he was already starting the day with what he called a “grappling hook”, a mixture of brandy and port....
...“It is one-third gin, one-third grenadine, one-third applejack [apple brandy] and a dash of lemon juice.”...
...Charles de Gaulle embodied this impulse....
...A hypothesis first sketched in 1871 by Charles Darwin, and supported by recent evidence, makes the case for little warm pools near the edge of the sea....
...“If you were on the Titanic it’s where you would have gone for brandy and cigars after dinner,” was Jang’s take. “It’s class....
...Dining for guests of Les Tilleuls is limited to in-house meals and local specialities from the nearby patisseries, such as pastries made from apples, salted butter and calvados (Norman-apple brandy)....
...Transylvania, similarly, has attracted posh Brits led by Prince Charles, who has bought several houses here, visits every year and is a massive enthusiast for its pristine state....
...Tom Marchant of Black Tomato recommends the newly opened Alexander hotel in Yerevan, part of Marriott’s Luxury Collection, as well as stopping for a degustation at the Ararat Brandy Company....
...Charles Dickens loved a blazing punch; it’s said that he and his guests would often round off dinner with a gurning competition by the “lurid light” of the flickering flames....
...Charles Moore, the journalist and biographer, takes a similarly optimistic view in the current Spectator about how the British would cope....
...A 2009 film, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers, dramatised the boardroom battles that preceded its demise; Adam McKay’s 2015 film, The Big Short , Charles Ferguson’s 2010 documentary Inside Job, JC Chandor...
...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”....
...The road has always existed, but in 2015 the North Highland Initiative, set up by Prince Charles to boost the economy here at the northern edges, branded and marketed it....
...The Spaniards brought in their brandy-making expertise to employ on añejos, or aged rums....
...Drambuie dates back to 1746 when Prince Charles Edward Stuart, “Bonnie Prince Charlie”, was being pursued following defeat at the Battle of Culloden....
...dry as one of his own martinis, wickedly blithe as he finally makes his escape, pockets stuffed with brandy and cigarettes....
...Prince Charles called for mansion blocks to be capped at eight storeys – an idea dismissed as “absolutely crazy” by Boris Johnson, London’s mayor....
...Drambuie can trace its heritage back to 1746 when Prince Charles Edward Stuart was on the run, after defeat at the Battle of Culloden ended his hopes of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne....
...Burton’s boss in India was the ruthless general Sir Charles Napier, who conquered Sindh (now part of Pakistan) for the Empire....
...In the course of his extended bender through France and Spain, Jake Barnes knocks back gallons of absinthe, champagne, brandy and Château Margaux....
...So when I came across Charles Carter’s recipe for lemon salad, in The Complete Practical Cook (1730), I was instantly drawn to it....
...Charles Laughton apart, has there ever been anyone better at conveying what it is like to be going to seed on an operatic scale? He had such sheer power....
...“We are now highly challenged to get enough land to make ourselves self-sufficient in food,” says Mr Brandy, who warns of conflict ahead if the land ownership issues are not sorted out....
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