“Jews would acquire this local drink after moving into European kingdoms,” a slivovitz scholar said. Slivovitz, a plum brandy traditionally associated with Passover by many Ashkenazi ...
The eleven grotesque tales in Esprit de Corps (subtitled Sketches from Diplomatic Life) do not all come off, but the best of them extract a flavorsome slivovitz from the Titoesque. In The Ghost ...