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Subject: Re: HELP!!! Alcohol Questions...
From: JMeer
Posted: Mon Aug 28. 2000, 05:23 UTC
Followup to: "Re: HELP!!! Alcohol Questions..."  by Dunc  (Mon Aug 28. 2000, 04:58 UTC)

Technically, you're correct. Pisco does originate from Peru,k but it was 
appropriated by Chile in the '20s and '30.

I dug up a quote from "Cocktail" by Paul Harrington on the subject (from A.J. 
Liebling's biography of Colonel John R. Stingo):

"It was said New York had not before ever seen or heard of the insidious 
concoction which in its time had caused the unseating of South American 
governments and women to set world's records in various and interesting fields 
of activity. In early San Francisco, where the punch made its North American 
appearance in 1856, the police allowed by one drink per person in 24 hours."

meer


> > Which country is Pisco brandy from?
> > 
> This is the only question I can answer. And that answer is Peru. Side 
> note: there was a famous drink made in the Barbary Coast years of San 
> Francisco called Pisco Punch. Many a wallet was stripped from the 
> souse who had too many. It's ingredients are lost now, but I assume 
> it had the Pisco brandy in it.


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