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Wikipedia: Antoine’s
Cafe Brulot
Antoine’s is also known for Cafe Brulot, a drink made from coffee, orange liqueur, cinnamon stick, sugar, cloves and lemon peels. At Antoine’s, the coffee is customarily flamed when it is served as part of a dessert course.
(Oxford English DIctionary)
café brûlot n. [after French brûlot (1843 denoting a mixture of an alcoholic drink and sugar burned and added to a cup of coffee)] U.S. (orig. and chiefly Louisiana) coffee flavoured with a mixture of sugar, spices, citrus peel, and brandy, which has been ignited and allowed to burn for a short while; orig. in café brûlot diabolique.
[1894 K. Chopin Bayou Folk 120 She arranged his after-dinner brûlot,—a lump of sugar in a flaming teaspoonful of brandy, dropped into a tiny cup of black coffee.]
1902 Proc. Louisiana Bar Assoc. 65 Café Brulot Diabolique.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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