Delicious Thanksgiving Cocktails Nov 6, 2009
Mix the eggnogg, spiced rum and brandies in a cocktail glass with ice. Garnish the top with crumpled up ginger cookies. (Suite101.com)
Jewels in the crowd Oct 13, 2009
The rudimentary shelves hold dozens of different and premium tequilas, vodkas (including an oaked example from Poland), brandies, whiskies, cognacs and gins along with interesting digestifs from Hungary and the Czech Republic. Cuban rum and kosher wine, too. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Plonk of the month from South Africa Sep 30, 2009
Some of the first plantings were of chenin blanc (then known as steen ), used to make the sweet wines and brandies Netherlanders adored. French Huguenot. (Boston Globe)
US healthcare debatesick to the heart Aug 19, 2009
There it is, American politics and society's madwoman in the attic, escaping from her confinement to terrorize the polite society sipping brandies in the drawing room. Perhaps no other issue defines the divide between America's governing elite and those being governed than the issue of illegal, mostly Hispanic, immigration into the country. (Asia Times Online)
A Catholic outpost at Brandeis May 15, 2009
I couldn't help thinking: liberal priest hounded from his job by the Boston Archdiocese lands on his feet at Brandies, which calls itself "the only nonsectarian, Jewish-sponsored college or university in the country." Who woulda thunk it. Yet there it is. (Boston Globe)
Brandy-Spiked Carrot Soup with Ging... Apr 19, 2009
Brandy-Spiked Carrot Soup with Ginger & Orange: Getting to Know the French Brandies: Cognac and Armagnac ... Getting to Know the French Brandies: Cognac and Armagnac ... The French are famous for their brandies, but the process goes back to ancient Greece, Rome and possibly Babylon, who used distilled wine as an antiseptic and as a primitive anesthetic. (Suite101.com)
A seat at the rabbis seder tables ... Apr 3, 2009
We sample a variety of kosher-for-Passover liqueurs and brandies and end with the traditional slivovitz. This year, the Denkers will spend the second seder in the synagogue s new Orange Village facility, along with 150 congregational families. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Best Hot Dog vote! Mar 11, 2009
It s got to be Brandies World Famous in Marietta. Got to love em hot. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Pocket guide to spirits Feb 19, 2009
But what the booklet lacks in advice it makes up for with a concise history of the primary spirits categories -- white spirits such as vodka and gin, whiskeys, brandies, and liqueurs and bitters -- and a handy glossary, plus some advice on cocktails and tastings. The guide is at its most informative when it dives into history -- the post-World War II creation of the happy hour, for example: "This national phenomenon was a two-hour buffer zone that eased the middle class from the eight-hour... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Profile: Richard Holbrooke Feb 8, 2009
Page last updated at 11:50 GMT, Friday, 23 January 2009. Richard Holbrooke will work closely with Islamabad and Kabul. (BBC News -- South Asia)
