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...year-old brandy. (A vintage that so captivated me, I felt moved to document it with my camera.) A former Russian army captain from Moscow joined us after a time for a round of "cha-cha," as Georgian vodka is known. At 130 proof, the homemade brew clears the sinuses. (I have a picture of this bottle as well.) We talked about oil prices, the 27 million Russians that died in the Second World War and the dual tragedies of the 9/11 attacks and the massacre of school children in Beslan. They were all big Bush fans...
...started thinking about a different kind of beer, one designed for women like her. "The big companies had looked at a beer for women and shied away because the product was watery," she says. She began poring over beer recipes and came up with a 200-year-old brew that used rose hips. Her Honey Amber Rose is only 110 calories per bottle and carries a logo of a Latin-looking woman in a broad-brimmed red hat and a red dress with folds resembling a rose. "If you want to taste sweet success," the bottle says, "look...
...double-CD set opens with “Shaker” (from the 1993 album of the same name), a churning pot of jangly guitars that threatens to boil over as each tinny cymbal clang and distorted chord is added to the brew. The song is all twitchy, nervous-tic buildup; I’m searching here for a modern mainstream reference point, but coming up empty. This song, and those to follow, have a rich mellow ambience that no radio-friendly band has managed to emulate, but it’s notable that these tunes could fit comfortably...
...IngenuiTea offers a tidy way to brew and serve loose-leaf tea. Rest the teapot on the rim of your mug, and filtered tea pours in through a valve. It's microwave safe--just don't nuke the leaves. $15 or $19; adagio.com...
...intermittent presence of vocals only serves to further stir the strange brew of shimmers and undulations that is the band’s signature sound. Their ascetic abstention from such a historically fundamental element of rock is somewhat surprising but goes a ways in illuminating the reason these four Scots aren’t better known...