Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publisher, but the moist, dense, candy-like confection has one virtue: it is too rich to be addictive. The same could be said of Pearl's Southampton fruit cake, in which eleven varieties of fruit must be allowed to marinate for at least a week in cognac and Grand Marnier...
...boatman likes to join in hearty renditions of Russian songs. Andropov also has a dry sense of humor. One Moscow actor who chanced to be seated across a dinner table from Andropov related how the then secret-police chief reached across, the table to offer him a glass of cognac. When the actor demurred, Andropov joked: "You'd better accept. The KGB has a very long...
...little travelling himself--a week in Florida or Tahiti is his version of the ideal Christmas gift. And the simplest request of all comes form Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, the Government professor whose average grades are legendary for their coincidence with his middle initial--a nice bottle of cognac is his gift of choice. Try the Harvard Pro, Gov jocks...
...elegant. Torta Pasqualina, the Italian Easter pie from Liguria, is made with 33 layers of dough to symbolize Christ's age at his death. And there is Beautiful Aurora's Pillow, a pastry puffed up by the immortal Brillat-Savarin that combines pheasant, veal, pork, foie gras, Cognac and truffles, which might be accompanied by pinaattiohukaiset, a Finnish spinach pancake that is far easier to eat than pronounce...
...autobiography, My Own Truth, published in 1969, Mitterrand describes the improbable background that produced France's pre-eminent leftist. He was born in 1916 in Jarnac, a small southwestern town in the Cognac region. His upbringing was seemingly strictly conventional-piously Roman Catholic and petit bourgeois. His father Joseph was a railway stationmaster who inherited a prosperous vinegar business. Mitterrand explains, "To be a Catholic in a small town in the provinces automatically classified you as politically on the right." Yet, strangely, Mitterrand père thought differently and had his problems. Writes Mitterrand: "When a man went...