While reporting ?If the Slivovitz Hasn?t Killed You Yet, Have Another Shot,? for the Forward?s food and drink section, I talked to a lot of serious slivophiles. Some of them discovered the ...

Jerry Kortesmaki wants the rest of the world to love slivovitz as much as he does, and that's going to be an uphill battle. But if the fourth annual Slivovitz Festival held Saturday at Lakeview Castle ...

The comedian Myron Cohen once said of slivovitz that it makes Canadian Club taste like vanilla soda. It’s been compared to paint thinner, lighter fluid and jet fuel, and has been pressed into service ...

What would prompt an otherwise sane 44-year-old man with a background in science to take a 30-mile drive from downtown Chicago to the western suburbs during rush hour and risk missing his flight home ...

“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 Jews, has been ...

Not long ago, I gave a dinner party typical of the Washington scene, with guests who had spent considerable time in other places. Foreign service officers, journalists, academics who had enjoyed ...

Forget whiskey or cognac. For Serbs, nothing beats homemade slivovitz, a plum brandy they hope will win UN recognition soon as an example of an important cultural tradition. Brewing slivovitz remains ...

JTA — L’chaim! L’chaim! Živjeli! Slivovitz, a plum brandy traditionally associated with Passover by many Ashkenazi Jews, has been added to the United Nations’ list of items with “intangible cultural ...

L’chaim! L’chaim! Živjeli! Slivovitz, a plum brandy traditionally associated with Passover by many Ashkenazi Jews, has been added to the United Nations’ list of items with “intangible cultural ...