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Pisco, a powerful grape brandy, is a Peruvian national institution. Haughty hacendados and barefoot Indian peasants swig it at births and wakes; special bottles are kept tucked away for anniversaries and visits from old friends. Its type and flavor depend largely on the grapes from which it is made; Peruvians...
In all Lima, pisco is rarely drunk with more relish than in the Cantina de los Médicos, across the Rimac River from the capital. There, in a jumble of jars and bottles behind the musty bar, humble Peruvians may find, steeping in pisco, herb cures for almost every...
Bottles & Bonuses. Pepsi has cut costs (minor item: its annual art awards have been abandoned), and the company has a new eight-ounce bottle to sell for 5? at race tracks and ball parks. For home consumption, there is still the old twelve-ounce bottle (new price: 6?). Pepsi also...
The Criminal Mind. In Wichita Falls, Tex., Maude Stonecipher reported that someone had ransacked her house, made off with two bottles of vanilla extract. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Walter Tucker told police that someone had broken into his garage, left three automobile tires and wheels worth over $50. In Brighton...
By year's end, when four-year-old whisky is expected to be plentiful, liquor men will face a big sales problem. During wartime, when aged whisky was scarce, distillers stretched the supply by blending it. (i.e., mixing it with grain alcohol). They plugged blends so well-and straights...