Word: cognac
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...problem with sampling beer at a brewery, sherry at a bodega or cognac at a château is that you're captive to a particular brand. You can't complain too much, of course-especially if it's free-but what if you want a broader education that allows you to explore all the varieties of that beverage, regardless of who makes it? Increasingly, you're in luck...
...abandon his nuclear-weapons program. Now, the U.S. hopes, it's hitting Kim where it really hurts. Following a U.N. Security Council resolution banning the export of luxury goods to North Korea, last week the U.S. published a list of some 60 forbidden fruits, including iPods, Segway scooters, cognac, leather handbags, silk underwear, plasma TVs, baby grand pianos, jetskis, snowmobiles and eau de toilette. It's not just an attempt to personally aggravate the Dear Leader, who enjoys a notoriously plush lifestyle even while many of his countrymen starve. Cutting off the supply of expensive gifts Kim lavishes upon high...
...closest thing in the restaurant business to democracy in action. Overton reminisces about dishes he loved that never found a constituency: the torpedo dog, a kosher hot dog with red onions and sweet mustard baked into a pizza-dough crust; a pasta made with melted onions, cream and cognac. White-chocolate macadamia nut had been a top-10 cheesecake flavor for years, but it has fallen to the bottom five and is on the way out. Lamb and veal might appeal to critics, but "we just can't sell it," Overton says. Special interests, like vegetarians, get a few concessions...
...middle-class Russians. "The people who come are those who have achieved something in life," boasts Yuri Lazarov, the staff director. Sometimes the bar seems to try a little too hard. The menu includes "very wild boar" and "extraction of the huntsman" (roast pork and potatoes with a cherry cognac sauce), all unlikely to feature in a pub in Scotland. And unlike in the mother country itself, there's no restriction on smoking. Still, with a little imagination and a lot of whisky, you could almost be at yer auntie's hoose...
...middle-class Russians. "The people who come are those who have achieved something in life," boasts Yuri Lazarov, the staff director. Sometimes the bar seems to try a little too hard. The menu includes "very wild boar" and "extraction of the huntsman" (roast pork and potatoes with a cherry cognac sauce), all unlikely to feature in a pub in Scotland. And unlike in the mother country itself, there's no restriction on smoking. Still, with a little imagination and a lot of whisky, you could almost be at yer auntie's hoose...