Red meat and gin.
Julia Child, American chef and author (1912–2004), providing the reasons for her longevity.
I’m an apprentice of the spirit of Julia Child, and I certainly enjoy my G&Ts on warm afternoons. A chance conversation introduced me to a gin that found inspiration in the Canadian north. Thoroughly intrigued by the listed ingredients I carried a bottle home from my western wanderings and had the opportunity to taste it this evening.
Ungava gin boasts Nordic juniper, Labrador tea, crowberry, cloudberry and wild rose hip that produce a gentle and refreshing flavour that needs nothing more than tonic to carry it. The mildness of its flavour belies its 43% alcohol content.
I foretell a future television ad similar to that of the
Tetley Red Rose tea commercials of the 1970s: “Only in Canada you say? . . . Pity.” ;-)
Cheers!
Now there's a shattered illusion - I thought Tetley Tea was an exclusively UK item...complete with it's own cast of cartoon characters !
ReplyDeleteIt's enough to drive anyone to drink - especially in this heat...
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OK, I need HELP from all my kind Canadian readers (over the age of 30). What tea promoted itself as ONLY IN CANADA in a TV commercial that we all mimicked as kids? An internet search confirms that the Tetley brothers opened their business in England in 1837. My memory has failed me completely. I am going to drown my sorrows in a G&T -- after which I won't be concerned that I can't remember anything. ;-)
DeleteFurther to my original comment:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IccsU45CD0o
YouTube also solved my memory issue:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWBaNQxVWI
The commercials are a trip down memory lane -- though the math of how many years have passed is scarry.