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...style lounge. Weber's lesson will focus on cocktails with a brandy base, so the syllabus includes the brandy alexander, sidecar, brandy stinger, pisco sour and brandy flip. History is an essential part of the syllabus. As Weber mixes a brandy alexander - a smooth drink made of brandy, crème de cacao and cream topped off with freshly ground nutmeg - his colleague, Beate Hindermann, tells us why German brandy cannot be called cognac. "It was prohibited in the Treaty of Versailles," she says. "And so German brandy will forever remain what it is - French cognac's little brother...
...September by French advertising giant Publicis not to raise its $2.8 billion bid for British media-buying company Aegis. KPMG's Barrett concurs. "We're not seeing the sexed-up transactions we saw in the last bull market. It's looking much more responsible," he says. The French bank Crédit Agricole is one case in point. Facing ever tougher competition on its home turf, Crédit Agricole believes it needs to grow. So in December, Georges Pauget, the recently appointed chief executive, announced plans to start acquiring banks in neighboring European countries over the next three years...
...interest on its roughly 4.5 million current accounts make it the first major bank in France to exploit last month's regulation changes quashing 70-year-old laws banning certain charges and payments. So far banks Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole all say they will not follow suit until customers express interest of their own. It may be a long wait. Though the French wrote 4 billion checks on 57 million current accounts last year, the national average balance of €1,500 would yield a mere...
JOHN LEGUIZAMO The Latino actor and comic makes his Spanish-speaking debut in Cr??nicas, a serial-killer thriller set in Ecuador...
...instead of a bearded old uncle who looks as if he should be advertising fried chicken, they have a seminaked woman." The book also imparts practical advice. If you order café au lait, beer or water at a restaurant, you're likely to get skinned; instead, demand a crème, a demi or a carafe de l'eau, as the French do. To wiggle out of a house purchase, ask your bank to deny you a mortgage. At dinner, don't commit the cheese-course gaffe of cutting the tips off Brie and Camembert wedges; instead...