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FROM THE VAULT: Leblon Cachaça vs. Dillon Rhum Agricole (Blanc)
Cachaça is not rum. Ok – sure. Except that it is. Rhum agricole. But from Brazil. So even though these two are the same liquor, I’m unable to contrast them just now… except...
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Salty Dog
[Mostly for my own records: take note of time/place/surrealness. No actual salty dogs were harmed in the making of this day.]
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pig’s ear – Crimea – patriotism
« Pig’s ear » Meaning: Cockney rhyming slang for ‘beer‘. Origin: The Cockney rhyming slang ‘pig’s ear’ is one of the earliest examples of the form and appears in D. W. Barrett’s Life & Work among...
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Article 1
I see your pork shortage and raise you one smug and sincere I-don’t-give-a-care. I’m grateful for the opportunity to finally float this pic, though.
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Basmala Vodka
Dateline: ~six months ago. I recall a news report about a Kazakh vodka that invoked the name of ‘Allah’ on its label (written in Arabic – so it took a cadre of good citizens and their...
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Try Chambers’ Famous Soda Water (& Moxie) – Coney Island, circa 1904
Detail from one of several (!) varied disaster-motif spectacles at Olde Coney. Ah, refreshment. This most recent continuation of that very same theme, the admission was free – but saw diminished...
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Oh, Badri.
The old black-pepper-in-the-coffee prank. [Cherry-picked stills from one of the many short documentaries produced by the ingenious, insightful, prolific Eyewitness Studio, Tbilisi.]
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DIET.
I don’t mean to encroach on EiT’s patch, but – anyway – Big Nick’s couldn’t even be arsed to prepare the cherry-lime rickey promised by their menu/wall, so, I hurried down my baba ganoush sandwich(?!)...
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Mauby Stories
From the website: “Hairoun® Mauby or School Boy Beer is an indigenous product made from natural mauby, natural spice flavor, sugar and purified Vincentian water to give it that refreshing unique...
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Mein Kaff
My flip little presentation of real vs. fake soldatenkaffees seems to have attracted a some attention lately. No idea why.
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Pheasant’s Tears, 2009 Rkatsiteli –“Produced and Bottled in Caucasus Georgia”
You know. Caucasus Georgia. The pheasant may be crying, but I’m tearing up too; I had to trudge through NoHo to fetch a bottle. In my workaday clothes! On a Saturday evening, no less. My sense of...
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Apani
Just walk past that proto-retro-trash-chic bar with the obnoxious ‘NO SUSHI’ sign in its window… [Set eyes upon the classy faux-flagstone facade of that pub and you may reasonably think to yourself...
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Mardik 100% Pomegranate Wine vs. Tree of Life 100% Pomegranate Wine
Not sure I understand the antipathy, but I’m told that people turn their noses up at pomegranate wines, fruit wines in general. Fine with me – keeps the prices low. Yes, red. If you can readily...
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2010 Akhoebi Vineyards ‘Our Wine’ Rkatsiteli vs. 2014 Beaujolais Nouveau
What is probably the least commercial wine in my small collection, the not-terribly-adhesive label tells me so many useful things about ‘Our Wine': which grape varieties are involved (Rkatsiteli,...
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Coke being Coke
Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away From Bad Diets – NYT Coca-Cola and the Problem With Industry-Funded Research – insightful response piece from MNT [gross lolly by : Henry...
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