Word: cointreau
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...however, the Mexican ritual is too time-consuming and ritualistic: the drinker sucks the lime, licks the salt from the back of his thumb, and only then tosses back the tequila. Número uno for the American tequila fans is the Margarita, a cocktail made with lime juice, Cointreau or Triple Sec and tequila, all poured over shaved ice and served in a frosty glass rimmed with salt. To push tequila into the really big time, the drink's backers have thought up more than 40 different recipes, including a Gringolet (with lime juice) and Brave Bull (with...
...breathless"), Heublein succeeded with Smirnoff far beyond its hopes. Vodka somehow appealed to youth, seemed lighter and thus less fattening (it isn't), and was so versatile that it could be mixed in anything from a Bloody Mary to a Russian Virgin (vodka with a whisper of Cointreau). It has been the fastest-growing liquor in the U.S. for the past five years and now accounts for 70% of Heublein's total sales; Smirnoff has also become the fourth biggest seller among all liquor brands...
...Father Beaumont's recipe: Pour two bottles of Spanish red wine into jug, add two oranges two lemons and cucumber sliced, splash in one bottle of soda, lace with one-eighth bottle of brandy, drop in teaspoonful of Cointreau and two dashes bitters (or "anything like that") mix well and serve ice cold...
...country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front page," said Churchill (see below). After lunch, when he asked Lord Moran if a Cointreau was permitted, the doctor replied: "Do you want it or do you need it?" Replied Sir Winston: "I neither want it nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime...
Burdick had looked vainly for the early '20s Oxford of Novelist Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited') where the "subtly homosexual youth . . . carries his teddy bear about St. John's Quad . . . boys roar out into the country in Bentley roadsters, and over Cointreau and plovers' eggs have some dazzling conversations "about God and Truth." But, said Burdick, "Times have changed since Waugh was here. The Oxford homosexual today has neither wittiness nor creative eccentricity to recommend him . . Parties revolve around gin and orange which is, beyond question, one of the most barbaric drinks that any people ever accepted...