Post #264852 by GatorRob on Mon, Nov 6, 2006 1:09 PM

For the mixologists among us:

The Spirit of Cuba: The Corporate Battle Over Rum Offers Clues to the Future of Cuba
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All Things Considered, August 13, 2001 - NPR's Tom Gjelten visited Cuba and talked to some of the players in the rum saga, which began before the 1959 revolution, and which will in no small measure shape the future of the island nation. The issues surrounding the rum business are the same issues that other industries will have to contend with after Castro.

Rumble Brewing over 'Real' Cuban Rum
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All Things Considered, August 8, 2006 - The Bacardi company will soon start selling a new version of Havana Club Rum, competing with a rum made in Cuba under the same name. The fight over which is the genuine Havana Club foreshadows battles likely to come in Cuba in the post-Castro era.

'Hideous Absinthe' and France's Artistic Elite
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All Things Considered, May 14, 2004 - NPR's Michele Norris talks with Jad Adams, author of Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle, about the cultural role the potent green liquor played among artistic circles in 1890s France.