Word: cognac
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Beebe reports a menu, prepared for Cognac King Walter Dupuys: The hors d'oeuvres alone took up a half page of small type and were served to the accompaniment of "an ensemble of harp, flute, two violins and guitar, [playing] Venetian songs of gaiety." The soup required a guitar rendering of Moszkowski's Malagueña, the escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets...
...cognac, gin, rum and Scotch for a North Ireland officers' club, with no offsetting credit for resale of the liquor; other charges running into the millions for refundable items or for goods on which the price was later reduced...
...week's daily menus, 20 years later, include nine hot entrees chosen from a list of 2,700 dishes, all à la carte. Most expensive: New York cut steak, $3.25. Least expensive: hamburger, 35?. Most exotic (at $2.50): Le Coq Avin (boneless capon sautéed in butter, cognac; cooked in burgundy; served with chicken livers, truffles, mushrooms...
...District Supreme Court Justices, had been fashionably late. But the other guests of Colonel Alfredo Zárate Albarrán, Mexico State* Governor, hadn't minded: they had whiled away the time from noon till the Justices' three o'clock arrival with torrents of convivial cognac. After the honor guests departed, the banqueters were able to settle down to some really serious drinking. By 8 p.m. 40-odd willing gullets had gurgled dozens of bottles of hard liquor...
...silver platters were sweets and cookies. I ate Turkish cookies, a delicacy I am very fond of. My friend ordered great goblets full of champagne, into which he put shots of cognac to make it more lively. Sweets and cookies...