What to eat alcoholic beverages?


In Russia, like the holidays. Thrifty owners before the slaughter refrigerators victuals and alcohol. This is not Gorbachev's period of struggle with alcoholism, when the bottle bryntsalovskogo drinking alcohol Royale had to choke in the queue. Then people in the know, to beat back fusel odor, insisted on his orange peel. Now any store an unlimited choice of alcohol and an amazing imagination.



The question arises - what a bite alcoholic beverages? Of course, champagne vinaigrette, or can be herring, but I would like to give the correct, scientifically sound and proven practice recommendations. Let's start with the spirits.

What to eat the vodka.
Vodka - Russian national drink. Under zakuson her go brawn, bacon, herring with boiled potatoes, black and red caviar, pickled cucumbers, marinated tomatoes and mushrooms, sauerkraut and more - to taste consuming.

What to eat brandy.
Cognac - the French national beverage. His well eat a slice of lemon or slice of cheese. On the slice of lemon can shoot the little powdered sugar and ground coffee. This snack for brandy invented Tsar Nicholas II, so it was called "Nikolashka. In the classic version of cognac in the snack does not need.

What to eat whiskey.
Whisky - Scotch-Irish national drink. In Scotland, the whiskey is poured into a thick glass and diluted with soda (we can replace the highly carbonated water). In Ireland, whiskey drink undiluted (note the word masculine), eating smoked fish, game and oysters. In Russia, they drink whiskey both ways, but still prefer to eat.

What to eat the genie.
Gene - purely English juniper vodka. Gin and tonic - a cocktail of our ladies. He was, of course, drink without eating. If you drink gin clear, you have to eat olives, lemon and pickled onions.

What to eat grappa.
Grappa - Italian national drink, but in actual case - a simple grape vodka. To her as a snack suitable meat dishes and, of course, grapes and olives.

What to eat raki.
Raki - Turkish national drink, but in fact - to anisette with a high concentration of anise. Her pure do not drink. Or is diluted with water in a high narrow glass and then drink becomes milky, which the Turks call aslan suyu (lion milk), or put ice cubes in it. Drink raki sip and snack cheese, olive or slice of melon aroma. In Bulgaria there are similar to an alcoholic drink raki, called mastic.

What to eat sake.
Sake - Japanese national drink, which is served in a warmed. A snack of sushi and, sorry for the tautology, dried squid.

What to eat the tequila.
Tequila - Mexican national drink. Traditionally, drinking and eating should be as follows: lick the salt on the edge of the glass, a drink in one gulp and eat here adjoined a slice of lime. Add salt and lime, some fans of tequila substitute for cinnamon and orange.

What to eat rum.
Rum - the national drink of the Caribbean, and drink normally without snacks. Most of rum is used to prepare various cocktails.

What to eat chacha.
Chacha - Georgian national beverage. Known to us as a grape alcohol. Once the alcohol, and eating should be like Russian vodka.

What to eat liqueurs.
Becherovka - The National Czech liqueur great fortress. His drinking, not eating, in its pure form, and also add in coffee or tea.

Sambuca - National Italian anise liqueur. It is diluted with water or a drink with ice, as well as raki, but not eating, if a snack is not considered a couple of coffee beans thrown at the bottom of a glass.

In general, the appetizer to the alcoholic are selected according to their taste. For example, a cherry suit Candied cherries, and a vanilla - vanilla biscuits.

What to eat wine.

For white wine as an appetizer are seafoods, smoked fish, and fish in any other form, poultry and vegetables.

For red wine fits any red meat, especially mutton, fatty roast poultry, veal and cheese.

By vermouth as snacks, roasted nuts or fruits.

And finally, the queen holiday table - a bottle of champagne.

What to eat champagne.

Best snack with champagne is black or red caviar, seafood, white meat, cheese, fruit and ice cream.

The list goes on, connect to the comments. And finally all the good advice: whatever you're eating drinks for festive table, the main thing - do not lose face ... in a salad.