Re: Loquat liqueur sequel
- Subject: Re: Loquat liqueur sequel
- From: M* &* A* G*
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:37:13 +0200
Tim Longville wrote:
> Cali - I'm salivating just reading the description... Given the list's recent (totally justified!)
> 'Praise-Festival for Alessandra', maybe a suitable climax-cum-conclusion to it would be the
> invention of a suitable 'commemorative' name for 'her' tipple??! Suggestions, anyone? Tim
Commemorating a tipple generally involves using the inventor's name, but as Alessandra's surname
(Vinciguerra) means something like "win the war" which today immediately conjures up some really
rather unsavoury associations linked to the terrible chain of events that began on 11th September,
maybe we should leave it till next year! I'm sure Alessandra wouldn't like to be remembered for the
"Taliban tipple" or other names I will spare you.
My favourite fruit for a liqueur is coming onto the shelves around now - the quince, and throughout
the Mediterranean, people are getting ready to make what in Italy is known as "cotognata", a quince
jelly that seems to take forever to make but is then quite a superb and very characteristic autumn
taste. And the liqueur is just the thing after a good Italian winter Sunday lunch. We'll be taking
advantage of the early November break to enjoy making them.
Anthony
