Take a red grapefruit and squeeze half of it into a glass, with some ice. Then take some gin, the cheaper the better, and add around three ounces. Fill it up with 7-Up and enjoy. Warmest regards, Doc.
It’s not every day that I would devote a post to just one wine, but this is no ordinary wine. A friend of mine, from South Australia had alerted me to this new winery, and lo and behold, I became the happy recipient of two bottles, one sublime 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, and no less [...]
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People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a Scandinavian study published on Wednesday. People who had a moderate alcohol consumption were 40 and 45 percent less likely to develop rheumatoid [...]
Clinicians should consider screening energy drink use in their patients to ensure a greater understanding of the possible impacts of long-term exposure to the high-dose caffeinated products, new findings have suggested. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts’ Division of Medical Toxicology, reviewed how the products’ ingredients are absorbed, digested and then expelled [...]
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I knew it! Fresh evidence that supports the potential protective health properties of wine with a US study suggesting a glass of red wine a day could actually protect against liver disease. People who drank up to one glass of wine a day saw the risk of liver disease due to Non-Alcoholic Fatty [...]
One of the typical scenes to be found throughout my neck of the woods, Provence, is of men gathered around the town square playing pétanque and drinking the aniseed flavored liquor, Pastis. Many afternoons I spent playing this game in my youth, with the object of winning a couple of apéritifs!
Most cocktails have some pretty hilarious names like Adios MF!, Two Nights into Georgia, Lava is Flow and so on. I used to spend some of my time in Australia making up alcoholic concoctions devised to lose one’s head, and quite rapidly at that. I had somehow managed to get my own (fully licensed) restaurant [...]
Everyone loves a cocktail, particularly after a trying day. There’s nothing better than sitting with a few friends outside, a sunset and a jug of Margarita.
I use Cointreau (a tenth of the jug), a good brand of Tequila, finely crushed ice, and lots of fresh lime juice. A little rock salt…
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There isn’t a Latin expression that rings truer to me. Ne plus ultra may come a close second. I have seen people confessing to unusual habits and revealing their innermost secrets when thoroughly infused with the nectar of the Gods. That may be the reason why I don’t drink in public anymore, for fear of [...]
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e Champagne is the product and La Champagne is the region, just so you know. There are just 34,000 hectares to the East of Paris, of which 31,000 are planted, and these provide the entire world, a yearly average of 280 million bottles with an absolute maximum of 310 million. The vineyards of Champagne are [...]