Word: caballitos
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Today drinkers at trendy bars from Manhattan to Mayfair pay as much as $40 for a tall shot, or caballito, of Porfidio Barrique, and buyers snap up Herradura's $230-a-bottle Seleccion Suprema. Even mass-market leader Jose Cuervo now offers a $1,000 bottle of limited edition 1800 Coleccion. It's all part of the trend toward boutique liquors that began in Europe and the U.S. in the late 1980s, says Chris Morris, national marketing director for American distiller Brown-Forman's two tequila brands, Pepe Lopez and the newly introduced Don Eduardo. "When single-malt whiskeys burst...
Young Attorney Aléman found success quickly in the person of a little old man with a racking cough. Aléman first saw him under the Caballito monument at the head of the Paseo de la Reforma, and took him for a beggar. But the man refused money and said he was a miner far gone with tuberculosis. Aléman questioned him, took him home, persuaded him to see a doctor. The verdict: not TB, but silicosis. In the name of the old man, Pedro Aguayo, Aléman filed suit against the mining company...
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