Eating and drinking in Europe is sightseeing for your taste buds. Every country has local specialties that are good, memorable, or both. Here are many of the fun experiences that stick in my mind after 30 years of travel. Seek out any of these on your next trip.
• Jessica Simpson and boyfriend Tony Romo, leaving Al Biernat's steakhouse in Dallas carrying a bottle of Macallan 21-year-old single-malt Scotch whiskey. Clearly, there was plenty of football talk over their meal: The pair dined with new Dallas Cowboys backup quarterback Jon Kitna and his wife Jennifer, as well as quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson and offensive coordinator Jason Garrett.
Ronjon Sen flies across the Pacific once a week to serve cocktails. The San Francisco-based business executive began his weekly U.S.-China commute only this year and, by the end of January, had racked up more than 100,000 frequent flier miles.
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It's hard to walk down the aisle of a liquor store without running across a bottle bearing someone's name.
Jack Pullman, 19, was charged with underage drinking and resisting arrest, among other counts
Sin stocks, ranging from gambling to liquor, are usually a safe bet in hard times
Maybe it's all the news of "Anonymous" protests against Scientology that have been dominating the blogs lately, but it seems the word "cult" is on a lot of people's minds. Which makes me think about just how many cults there are out there -- and not just the religious kind, either.
Last year at the venerable McTear's auction house in Scotland, an anonymous Russian paid a record $58,000 for a Bowmore malt whisky reckoned to have been bottled around the time his ancestors were facing the 1854 charge of the British Light and Heavy Brigades during the Crimean War.
The legend of Jack Daniel reaches all the way back to the moment he was born. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly when that was.
Eating and drinking in Europe is sightseeing for your taste buds. Every country has local specialties that are good, memorable, or both. Here are many of the fun experiences that stick in my mind after 30 years of travel. Seek out any of these on your next trip.
• Jessica Simpson and boyfriend Tony Romo, leaving Al Biernat's steakhouse in Dallas carrying a bottle of Macallan 21-year-old single-malt Scotch whiskey. Clearly, there was plenty of football talk over their meal: The pair dined with new Dallas Cowboys backup quarterback Jon Kitna and his wife Jennifer, as well as quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson and offensive coordinator Jason Garrett.
Ronjon Sen flies across the Pacific once a week to serve cocktails. The San Francisco-based business executive began his weekly U.S.-China commute only this year and, by the end of January, had racked up more than 100,000 frequent flier miles.
What is the most reliable and safe product to soothe a teething baby's gums?
It's hard to walk down the aisle of a liquor store without running across a bottle bearing someone's name.
Jack Pullman, 19, was charged with underage drinking and resisting arrest, among other counts
Sin stocks, ranging from gambling to liquor, are usually a safe bet in hard times
Maybe it's all the news of "Anonymous" protests against Scientology that have been dominating the blogs lately, but it seems the word "cult" is on a lot of people's minds. Which makes me think about just how many cults there are out there -- and not just the religious kind, either.
Last year at the venerable McTear's auction house in Scotland, an anonymous Russian paid a record $58,000 for a Bowmore malt whisky reckoned to have been bottled around the time his ancestors were facing the 1854 charge of the British Light and Heavy Brigades during the Crimean War.
The legend of Jack Daniel reaches all the way back to the moment he was born. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly when that was.
LA may be a great place to live, but uncovering its highlights as a vistor can be a struggle. For an insider's guide, Sunrise to Sunset follows award-winning documentary maker Morgan Neville as he tours his favorite LA haunts.
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Emmy Rossum, raised by a single mother, has opened up about her feelings about the father she barely knows.
The price of sin rose Monday in Venezuela where President Hugo Chavez is on a campaign to make Venezuelans cut back on drinking and smoking.
Viña Cobos co-owner Andrea Marchiori tightens her smile ever so slightly as she eyes my pant leg and shoe, now spattered with the oxygenated blood purple of malbec wine.
Former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar knows how to party profitably. In May he inked a deal to sell 80 percent of his Cabo Wabo tequila business to Gruppo Campari for $80 million.
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Money Magazine bought five blended Irish whiskeys and then rounded up a tasting panel of drinkers - including a couple of recent imports - from County Donegal.
In the Gaillac region in south-west France, grapes have been growing on Mauzac Blanc vines for more than 1,000 years since they were planted by the Romans.
During a recent interview with CNN.com, Daniel Handler was gracious enough to give up some of his time to Lemony Snicket, the shadowy author of the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books. Here is an edited transcript of that conversation:
Vodka martinis. Vodka and tonic. Vodka gimlets. These days it's vodka vodka vodka. It's hip. It's clear. It mixes with everything - and it's fashionably expensive. But what happened to gin - one of the alcohols that cocktails were originally created to dilute?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Do you live in a "donor" state?
"Probably the most intense and serious beer I have ever tried," enthuses one blogger. "Unique in every possible way," raves another. "You can smell it a mile away! This stuff is psycho!" trumpets a third.
IN HIS OFFICE OVERLOOKING THE LEAFY Place des États-Unis in Paris, Patrick Ricard has hung landscapes of the Mediterranean region where he spent much of his boyhood and where his father founded the eponymous family pastis business in 1932. "They are," he says, "my little bit of Provence here in the city."
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As wine, vodka and whiskey grab market share from beer, leading brewers have crafted a new industrywide campaign that's aimed at "fighting back the enemy" by touting -- get this -- the finer aspects of beer.
NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Red or white? It's the first question you ask when choosing a wine, right? Silly you. What you should be looking at, see, is whether it's a grand cru or a reserve. And do you adhere to the Parker scale? (You really should, you know.) And last, you philistine, do you want something lithe and supple, or firm-structured with good harmony?
COGNAC AND JARNAC, TWIN PRODUCTION CENTERS FOR THE world's most famous eau de vie, are linked by road and river. Despite a summer that saw the region's worst drought in 30 years, the Charente has c...
Delving into a well-stocked drinks cabinet can unearth all kinds of treasures, from the kind of exquisite French brandies favored by doomed aristocrats, to vodkas strong enough to fuel industrial lawnmowers.
Fortune Brands reported a 59 percent drop in third-quarter earnings last week -- and since then the stock has risen nearly three dollars a share.
Two large liquor companies, including the bottler of Jim Beam bourbon, are buying a major British spirits firm in a $14 billion deal that will shake up the industry, according to a published reports.
BEN & JERRY'S FACTORY
Pax World Funds said Wednesday it sold 375,000 shares of Starbucks worth about $23.5 million because it disapproves of the gourmet coffee chain developing an alcoholic beverage.
Just in case you needed a little more pick-me-up in that caffeinated beverage, Starbucks Corp. announced Thursday that it is partnering with whisky maker Jim Beam to produce a coffee flavored liqueur.
As underappreciated holidays go, Burns Night (Jan. 25) is one of the best.
Looking out over the waters of Scotland's Cromarty Firth, the Dalmore Distillery has been producing whisky since 1839.
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Tougher times for auto racing teams chasing sponsorship dollars are driving Nascar to hard liquor.
How's this for a great recipe for the end of summer?
Method: Direct grilling
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For years, people considered Lowe's a poor man's Home Depot. It's true that when you think home improvement, you usually think big orange. (For the record, Lowe's color is blue.) Indeed, Home Depot...
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A $1,000 bottle of tequila? That'll be the day.
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A riverboat chugs down the Cumberland River, past downtown Nashville, on a breezy Monday night. Men in tuxedos and women in evening dresses gather on deck, clinking glasses, waiting for the five-co...
A sip of Bowmore 1957, a 38-year-old single-malt Scotch, starts in Islay, Scotland, where the whisky began its "big sleep"--breathing in sea mist and peat at the 220-year-old island distillery. As ...
Whenever the conversation turns to trading stocks--and when doesn't it, these days?--I remember a neighborhood coffee shop I frequented years ago. No, it didn't rake in billions as www.greasyspoon....
For Don Koziak, owner of the Chateau Louis Liquor Store in Edmonton, Alberta, it was the first ransom demand he'd ever received. At 4:27 A.M. on New Year's Day, a couple of thieves broke into his s...
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WHISKEY: HOW IT'S DONE IN TOKYO
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If you've ducked into an upscale bar lately, you might have noticed several new bottles, alluringly carved and frosted, claiming the best space on the shelf. Much as single-malt scotches upstaged e...
The liquor industry has revived a drink that's even more retro than the martini: potato vodka. Lots of vodka used to be made from fermented potatoes, but over time cheaper mixed grains replaced the...
Every fan of booze suffers, now and then, this dilemma: One's favorite spirit grows boring. So off to the liquor store you go, in search of something new. Do you buy another fifth of Old Tedious, o...
Imagine a betoqued, heavily accented chef presenting an haute five-course feast--and eschewing his excellent wine cellar for beer. Try very hard, because it's becoming a common image in serious res...
Russians rarely let work get in the way of a good party--especially Russian journalists partying on someone else's tab. Philip Morris International has grasped this faster than most foreign compani...
I had an interesting chat the other day with Robert Hagstrom, who runs a mutual fund that invests "the Warren Buffett way." That's the title of Hagstrom's book on the subject. Lately he's found six...
EDGAR BRONFMAN JR. says he doesn't enjoy the gaming tables. But seven months after Seagram Co. acquired an 80% stake in MCA, the scion of the legendary liquor family found himself in Las Vegas anyw...
Everyone in the bar knows Seagram. The $5.6 billion Canadian liquor giant sells an array of popular brands, including Chivas Regal Scotch and Mumm champagne--plus the Tropicana orange juice chaser....
TODHUNTER Holiday spirits run strong at Todhunter: 189 proof strong. The company, in West Palm Beach, Florida, makes high-octane ingredients that liquor producers blend with everything from whiskey...
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YOU'RE THE TOP, you're a lazy Sunday . . . you're a lunch on Monday, you're a blue-chip stock . . .'' Listen to the beguiling female voice croon a television commercial pitching Chivas Regal whisky...
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Imports of premium Scotch whisky and bourbon are booming in Japan now that taxes have been cut. The liquor tax system, which in some cases once added as much as 220% to liquor prices, has been reva...
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, THE TOUR GUIDE holds a small flag over his head, and his gaggle of newly arrived Japanese tourists trails closely behind him. He leads them swiftly through the San Francisco airport to buses that...
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The stuporous brown-liquor market, pushed off its bar stool by consumers who have switched to white beverages like vodka, wine, and club soda, may have found its tonic in single-malt whiskies. Whil...
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Alcohol nearly wrecked Wayne Hoover's life. At 24, drinking problems have cost him three jobs, and booze-related mood swings abruptly ended his engagement . . . But Hoover is fighting back in an un...
Northwest Airlines announced plans to buy Republic Airlines for $884 million. The acquisition would be the biggest since deregulation of the industry began in 1979 and would create the third-larges...
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