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Drink of the Month May: Pisco

Posted in Argentina, South America, alcoholic drink, beverage, cognac, drink, egg, grapes, history, lemon, lime, tart, travel on May 7th, 2009

Picture this, if you will: A warm, humid day in Argentina’s early autumn; the last rays of sun slanting sharply through the browning leaves of mature plane trees; myriad dog-walkers rustling quietly by in the litter of those already fallen. In the lee of a giant ficus planted for sidewalk shade, two travelers recline in [...]

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Drink of the Month – May: Vin Santo

Posted in Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Tuscan, Vin Santo, alcohol, alcoholic drink, beverage, biscotti, delicacy, dessert, drink, grapes, madeira, malvasia, sweet, tourism, tradition, travel, trebbiano, tuscany, wine on May 29th, 2008

Regular readers must find us horrible bores as we bang on about our wedding and honeymoon in Italy last year almost constantly. On our penultimate day of our three week trip, we raided an enormous supermarket in the suburbs of Montevarchi for the Tuscan products we cannot find or cannot afford here in NYC, and [...]

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