A Different Day, a Different Blog

After much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I and my new blog engine have triumphed over Dreamhost. I'll continue to tweak the blog in the coming weeks, as I figure out more about how radiant works. Specifically, I'll try to make digging through archived posts a bit more intuitive, and maybe even add some search functionality...

Apertivo Cynar

Cynar (the correct pronunciation lies somewhere between chee-nar and shee-nar) is a bitter apéritif of Italian origin, akin to Campari and Aperol. (As it so happens, Gruppo Campari acquired Bols’ Italian holdings in 1995, and now owns all three of the apéritifs, as well as others.) The claim is that the beverage is made with “13 herbs and plants,” but no one seems to know, or care, what the first twelve are. All of the corporate branding relishes in the drink’s use of artichoke as an ingredient, from the picture on the label to the eponymous reference of the plant’s taxonomical name, cynara scolymus...