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Although the original Russian Vodka Martini is still popular, colorful, flavored vodka martinis are rapidly becoming the trend of new drinkers, as well as the vodka veterans. Unlike gin, vodka has a neutral flavor which allows it to easily mix with other flavors to make a wide variety of flavored martinis. New specialty martinis are being made everyday, using many different combinations of fresh fruit and vegetable juices ...

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In general, a cocktail is a mix of several substances, usually liquids. This article describes the cocktail as a mixed drink, usually containing one or more distilled alcoholic beverages and perhaps non-alcoholic drinks, ice and sometimes liqueur, fruit, sauce, honey, milk or cream, spices, etc. The cocktail became popular during Prohibition in the United States; to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol, the bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other liquors and non-alcoholic drinks. Until the 1970s, cocktai ...

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The Cuba Libre (KOO-buh-LEE-breh) is a cocktail made of 3 ounces Coca-Cola lime wedge 1 ounce rum Rub the rim of a highball glass with the lime. Fill with ice. Add rum and fill with Coca-Cola. Drop in the lime squeeze. The Cuba Libre (Spanish for Free Cuba) was invented in Havana, Cuba around 1900. Patriots aiding Cuba during the Spanish-American War—and, later, expatriates avoiding Prohibition—regularly mixed rum and Coca-Cola as a ...

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• Cuba Libre - Variations

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The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids. As a noun, it refers to the liquid thus ingested. It is often used in a narrower sense to refer to alcoholic beverages (as both a verb and a noun). Drink is also slang for a body of water, such as an ocean or a water hazard on a golf course (e.g. "He hit that one into the drink."). To drink in is also used metaphori ...

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Vodka is a typically colorless liquor, usually distilled from fermented grain. It is commonly thought that the term is a diminutive of the Slavic word "voda" (woda, вода) for "water." Except for insignificant amounts of flavorings, vodka consists of water and alcohol (ethanol). Vodka usually has an alcohol content ranging from 35 percent to 60 percent by volume. The classic Russian vodka is 40 percent (80 degrees proof), the number being attributed to the famous Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. According to the Vodka Museu ...

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• Vodka - History
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• Vodka - Differences in taste between brands
• Vodka - Sources
• Vodka - Vodka and politics

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Rum is a distilled beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses and sugarcane juice by a process of fermentation and distillation. The distillate, a clear liquid, is then usually aged in oak and other casks. While there are rum producers in places such as Australia, India, Reunion Island, and elsewhere around the world, the majority of rum production occurs in and around the Caribbean and along the Demerara river in South America. Some major rum brands include Bacardi, Captain Morgan's, Appleton Estate, Havana Club, Stroh, Mount Gay, Bundaberg, Myers, Ma ...

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• Rum - Rum in colonial America
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• Rum - Caribbean light rum
• Rum - Rum categorization
• Rum - Regional Variations
• Rum - Rum Grades
• Rum - Production Methodology
• Rum - Fermentation
• Rum - Distillation
• Rum - Aging and Blending
• Rum - Rum in cuisine

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Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the secondary fermentation of wine. It is named after the Champagne region of France. While the term "champagne" is often used by makers of sparkling wine in other parts of the world, such as California and Canada, it should properly be used to refer only to the wines made in the region of Champagne, France. The community, under the auspices of the Comité Interprofessionel du Vin de Champagne has developed a comprehensive set of rules and regulations for all wine that comes from the ...

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• Champagne beverage - The Comité Interprofessional du Vin de Champagne
• Champagne beverage - Champagne producers
• Champagne beverage - Bubbles
• Champagne beverage - Champagne bottles
• Champagne beverage - Opening Champagne bottles
• Champagne beverage - Serving Champagne

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Daiquiri, or Daiquirí (which is the Cuban spelling of the word), is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum and lime juice. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in one of the most famous bars in the world: the Floridita, in Havana. The name Daiquirí is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in ...

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• Daiquiri - Daiquiri Floridita
• Daiquiri - Other versions
• Daiquiri - Frozen daiquiris
• Daiquiri - References in popular culture
• Daiquiri - Sources

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Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. "The definition of honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance. This includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners," according to the United States National Honey Board 2003 and other nations' food regulations. Honey is significantly sweeter than table sugar and has attractive chemical properties for baking. Honey has a distinctive flavor which leads some people t ...

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• Honey - Composition of honey
• Honey - Types of honey
• Honey - Honeydew
• Honey - Use of honey
• Honey - Honey in culture and folklore
• Honey - Precautions
• Honey - Honey formation
• Honey - Honey as a product
• Honey - Honey processing
• Honey - Other descriptions

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A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. Most major navies use submarines. Submarines are also used for marine and freshwater science and for work at depths too great for human divers. Nuclear powered submarines and other large submarines are classed as ships, but are customarily referred to by their crews as "boats". The term U-Boat is sometimes used in English, this comes from the German word for submarine, 'U-Boot', itself an abbreviation for Unterseeboot. Modern attack submarines ar ...

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• Submarine - Early history of submarines and the first submersibles
• Submarine - The first military submarines
• Submarine - Submarines in the American Civil War
• Submarine - Mechanically-powered submarines late 1800s
• Submarine - Late 1800s to World War I
• Submarine - Submarines during World War I
• Submarine - Interwar developments
• Submarine - Submarines during World War II
• Submarine - Modern submarines
• Submarine - Major submarine incidents since 2000
• Submarine - Submarine propulsion
• Submarine - Submarine movies
• Submarine - Notes
• Submarine - General
• Submarine - Articles on specific vessels
• Submarine - Articles on specific submarine classes
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Zurracapote (sometimes abbreviated as zurra) is a popular Spanish alcoholic mixed drink, similar to sangría. It consists mainly of red wine, to which spirits, fruit juice, industrial refreshing drinks, sugar and cinnamon can be added. Sometimes it is cooked. The result is a mildly alcoholic drink. It's usually prepared in big recipes for local fiestas in La Rioja and also southern Navarre, where there are as many variations on the recipe as there are makers. Other typical Spanish cocktails with red wine are calimocho and s ...

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A blended whisky (or whiskey) comes from one of many distilleries, but is drawn from whiskies of differing vintages and/or manufacturers. It will include either single malt whisky (made from 100 percent malted grain—often barley, rye or corn) or straight whiskey (bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, or rye whiskey) together with other grain whiskies or neutral grain spirits. Blended whiskies normally identify what malt or straight whisky is used in their production, for example blended Sco ...

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A waiter is a person who "waits" on tables, often at a restaurant. A female waiter is often called a waitress, though the gender-neutral term "server" and collective noun "waitstaff" are gaining ground. Waiters' duties include preparing tables for a meal, taking customers' orders and serving drinks and food in a restaurant. Depending on the type of restaurant, this may involve other uncommon duties, such as singing a birthday song to customers who are celebrating a birthday. A theme ...

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A liqueur is a sweet alcoholic beverage, often flavoured with fruits, herbs, spices, flowers, seeds, roots, plants, barks, and sometimes cream. The word liqueur comes from the latin word liquifacere which means "to dissolve." This refers to the dissolving of the flavorings used to make the liqueur. Liqueurs are not usually aged for long periods of time, but may have resting periods during t ...

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Riots occur when crowds of people have gathered and are committing crimes or acts of violence. Dispersing violent crowds is usually a task given to the police, although widespread rioting may require military support. However, the police and the military have been known to start riots themselves. Non-lethal weapons, such as water cannon, rubber bullets, pepper spray, flexible baton rounds and riot control agent, ar ...

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See also: 1987 in film, other events of 1988, 1989 in film, list of 'years in film'. 1988 in film - Events. Michael Jackson's first film was Moonwalker 1988 in film - Top grossing films. Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise Who Framed Roger Rabbit Coming to America Big, starring Tom Hanks Crocodile Dundee II Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis ...

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Herbology is the art of combining medicinal herbs. Herbology is traditionally one of the more important modalities utilized in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Each herbal medicine prescription is a cocktail of many herbs tailored to the individual patient. One batch of herbs is typically decocted twice over the course of one hour. The practitioner usually designs a remedy using one or two main ingredients that target the illness. Then the practitioner adds many other ingredients to adjust the formula to the patient's Yin Ya ...

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• Chinese herbology - The Four Natures
• Chinese herbology - The Five Tastes
• Chinese herbology - The Meridians

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Western culture has created a virtual mythology around the martini, in part because of the many legendary historical and fictional figures who favoured it. Churchill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cary Grant and James Bond among them. The dry martini is also sometimes called "The Silver Bullet" (rarely used today) because it "is clear, potent and never misses its mark". The classic martini of yore was stirred, "so as not to bruise the gin." W. Somerset Maugham declared that "Martinis should always be stirred, not shaken, so that the ...

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