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LIFESTYLE: Sixty years of Gourmet in one book; creamier, fruitier gin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Sep. 27, 2004 | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

Thanks in part to an explosion of new flavored vodkas, U.S. consumption of the liquor has been on a steady rise over the past decade. At the same time, gin seems to have disappeared from the cocktail menu. Last year Americans drank nearly four times as much vodka as gin. To reverse the trend, some distillers have come up with a novel solution: make their drink taste less like gin. By lightening up on the juniper and amping up other flavors, they hope to make gin more palatable for a new generation--and woo vodka drinkers. Some of the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW TONIC FOR OLD GINS | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...plays Hank Evans, a writer navigating his way through a convulsing marriage. The new film features partner swapping, late-night screaming and a child who sleeps in his own dried urine because the mother (Laura Dern)--a woman with whom Evans has an affair--is so distracted by her gin and her suffering that she forgets to change the sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Cue the Agonized Guy | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...SALAAM, Tanzania —My parents, friends and relatives wondered how I’d ever get by here. I like the amenities of life in the developed world—decent cups of tea served loose leaf with similarly decent china, pan-Asian cuisine, good gin, clean bathrooms with toilets instead of ceramic holes. The Third World, despite my academic interest in its colonization, just didn’t seem to fit with my palate or hygienic pattern...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: The New Empire | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

...have the Indians paved the way for my good times, and for other wazangu—white people, colloquially—as well. With my gin and tonic in hand (the quinine helps to prevent malaria, I’m told), decent tea and coffee at my disposal, even cheeseburgers and kippers, donning khaki and a Panama straw hat, it’s easy to forget myself, history major that I am, and fall into the thinking that it’s 1954, and not decades later. When a visitor in either time caught eye of a black polished sedan...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: The New Empire | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

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