Word: dijon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. The ambiance is that of the 16th century French court at Fontainebleau. "There was something of a topless craze then," explains Daniel Catton Rich, director of the Worcester Art Museum, which owns the painting. In fact, museums in Dijon and Basel have similar paintings -of a woman, half-veiled, sitting at her dressing table. While the pose is the same, each face is different...
Died. Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn...
...Paris, but dry white wine with crème de cassis is an old Burgundian pick-me-up known as rinse cochon, pig rinse. As Mayor of Dijon the good Canon Kir must know the drink's real name. I wonder if he finds it flattering...
...really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture of dry white wine and crème de cassis (black-currant liqueur), named for Canon Felix Kir, who also doubles as the Mayor of Dijon. So far, mercifully, returning American tourists have resisted importing one new drink that has already swept Italy and has become the standard order at Sibylla's, London's swingingest discotheque. The mix: Scotch and Coca-Cola...
...sunshine in a bottle" when they got home. With rising orders from all of France, Ricard's production went from 3,800,000 bottles in 1949 to 16 million in 1959. The company eventually built seven other plants across France, has two more under way, including one at Dijon in the Burgundy wine country. Eight bottling plants have also been opened in other European nations and in North Africa: this year Ricard is contemplating the American market. One problem: Americans, who like ice in their drinks, will discover that it congeals the licorice into a gooey glob...