Melanee: "Ohhhh sister Brandy!" Damoli: "Oh we love Brandy".
We have "shims [tiny sharpeners], to get you in the mood", of Seville orange gin and black pepper shrub (sipping vinegar), Collector vermouth from my beloved Ethicurean, and Somerset cider brandy.
In Georges Simenon's iconic series of French detective novels from the '30s, after a particularly harrowing case, Inspector Maigret often nips into a bar to smoke his beloved pipe with a glass of brandy.
It's also entertaining to imagine a parent telling you that no, their baby Barack is not named after the beloved recent president, but after a Hungarian brandy made from apricots.
The old tradition of men playfully swatting their paramours with artfully decorated willow sticks in exchange for plum brandy and painted eggs is a beloved part of the seasonal fun.
(Of course, Pyongyang's "Beloved Leader" didn't cut back on his imported brandy).
In this mammoth biography, Fischer recounts how the conductor and beloved composer — born in Bohemia in 1860, to a family of "brandy distillers and soap boilers" — worked his way up to the dizzying heights of the Vienna Court Opera.
