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If you’re headed to the store to buy Champagne for New Year’s Eve, there are a lot of choices. Where should you start? We’ve written a lot about lower-cost sparkling wines like Asti Spumante, Cava, Crémant and Prosecco. Our Top Pick Of The Week is Yellow Tail from Australia. All are delicious bubblies, worthy of…
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It’s a Southern tradition to eat black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day for prosperity in the new year. It may actually stem from an ancient Sephardic Jewish custom of eating them on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. This “good luck” tradition is recorded in the Babylonian Talmud, compiled circa 500 C.E., and includes other…
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For an easy, light dessert to cap off your New Year’s Eve dinner, we nominate berries marinated in Champagne or other sparkling wine. Some sparkling wines are vinified to be sweet (see below). But if you can’t find one, or have dry sparkling wine on hand, you can mix it with a bit of agave…
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For Christmas or New Year’s Eve, how about a fun and flavorful Eggnog Martini? You can buy eggnog in the supermarket and mix multiple portions in a pitcher. RECIPE: EGG NOG MARTINI Ingredients For 1 Drink 3-1/2 ounces eggnog 1-1/2 ounces vanilla vodka (make it or buy it) Splash of cinnamon liqueur (see below) Garnish:…
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If you’re buying sparkling wine for Christmas or New Year’s Eve, you may be tempted to buy Champagne. But unless your guests are wine connoisseurs, you can have just as pleasant an experience with other sparkling wines, for a third to half of the price of the least expensive bottle of Champagne. Champagne is a…
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