The Aperol Spritz came about in 1919, however the original Spritz was born in the 1800s during the reign of the Habsburg Empire in Veneto. Soldiers were not used to the higher alcohol content of local wine and asked for a spritz of water to be added to the wine. When the Italian aperi...
typically made from the fermented juice of apples or pears. While the drink is regularly consumed in the United States, it is most commonly drunk in Western Europe.48 percent of Western Europeans consumed cider, while about 11 percent of North Americans drank it.The United States imported most...
But my white wine of the year goes to Domaine Guiberteau's 2018 Clos de Guichaux (the 2017, which I drank in late 2017, was equally fantastic). I know Guiberteau isn't exactly an unknown but the wine really was a standout this year. Utterly gorgeous, fresh, mineral and compelling. ...
"When it comes to tobacco and alcohol, prevention is particularly important. A strong interaction between situational and behavioral prevention is crucial," the German government's drug commissioner's office told Xinhua on Wednesday. According to the latest calculations by DHS, German citizens drank a...
People in Vietnam drank over 4 billion liters in 2017, up 6 percent against 2016, said the Vietnam Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Association. The country annually spends some 3.4 billion U.S. dollars on beer consumption, with nearly 90 percent of the money going to foreign brewers....
Today I found out alcohol does not “cook out” of food in most cases. The myth that alcohol does all cook out stems from the fact that alcohol has a much lower boiling point temperature (173° F / 78.5° C) than water (212° F / 100° C). Thus, if the temperature is ...
This was a small town after all, and there was a good chance that this cop coached Randy in little league, or drank beers with his dad. Hell, it was even possible that this cop could be an uncle to one of the bullies. “No sir,” Jeff replied, “we didn’t start it, they did...
one biographer,the French novelist and playwright Balzac drank as many as 50 cups of coffee a day.“Were it not for coffee one could not write,which is to say one could not live,”he once insisted.For seven years,the film-maker David Lynch ate at the same Los Angeles diner every day...
Why He's Considered “Tortured”: Thomas struggled with alcoholism and experienced financial difficulties during his life, both factors in his categorization as a“roistering, drunken and doomed poet.” Thomas actually called himself this, perhaps making it all the more true. In addition to ...
We defined smokers as those who ever smoked and alcohol drinkers as those who drank any alcoholic beverage at least once a month in the past year. To examine the factors associated with dynamic changes in sodium and potassium intakes and Na/K ratio, we used time serial random-effects linear...