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...Hamilton has a rough job, but somebody's gotta do it. The Florida-born chemical engineer cruises the Caribbean on his 44-ft. cutter in search of the world's best rums. He's not looking for the pale stuff you guzzle with Coca-Cola; he's out for the darker, lesser-known aged rums you sip from a snifter. That's right--rum in a snifter. Hamilton's website fans know him as the Minister of Rum, and he's issued a new decree: rum after dinner instead of the traditional brandy or single-malt scotch. "We all remember...
...suddenly risen above Captain Morgan to compete with Napoléon. U.S. sales of high-end rums shot up 45% over the past three years, to $287 million, according to the Distilled Spirits Council in Washington. Gourmet restaurants are taking notice. Labels like Santa Teresa's 1796--a top Hamilton pick for its "honey smooth" finish--from Venezuela are after-dinner favorites at Cacao in Miami. "It reminds me of the global market shift to New World wines," says Cacao's chef-owner, Edgar Leal, who has begun hosting aged-rum tastings. "The same is happening with digestifs...
...enjoy this kind of global respect," says Henrique Vollmer, international director at Santa Teresa, which is based on a 5,000-acre sugarcane hacienda 50 miles west of Caracas and pulled in $40 million in sales last year. "We're not going to let it go." Nor will Hamilton. His other favorites include Neisson Rhum Agricole Réserve Spéciale from Martinique and Mount Gay Extra Old from Barbados. "They've brought a welcome new dimension of flavors to an old class of spirits," says the Minister. But drink them neat. No cola. And no gunpowder...
...complete silence. It fell to others to set the table for key compromises in Washington's first term. When the first Congress reached an impasse over two issues--where to locate the permanent capital city and how to pay off the Revolutionary War debt--Thomas Jefferson asked Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to share a meal at which the three men struck a bargain: the Northern states would agree to locate the capital in the South, and the Southern states would assent to the Federal Government's assumption of the debt, even though most of the South had already paid...
...find that Dalmatians are still scared of you? -Rachel Hamilton, PARIS, ILL.[Laughs] I've seen a lot of Dalmatians in Central Park and they're always so beautiful - and they're not scared of me. They might be scared of me if I was in full drag as Cruella. It was kind of a strange phenomenon, whenever I'd get in my full drag, no animal wanted to be around...