Aquavit is an important part of Scandinavian drinking culture, where it is often drunk during a formal procedure called " drinking snaps ".

Aquavit arguably complements beer well, and its consumption is very often preceded by a swig of beer.

Linje Aquavit is named after the tradition of sending oak barrels of aquavit with ships from Norway to Australia and back again, by that passing the equator twice before being bottled.

Aquavit is also an important part of the traditional cuisine of Schleswig-Holstein.

Therefore to this very day boats loaded with " Line Aquavit " set sail from Norway to Australia and back again before they are tapped on bottle and sold as part of the Norwegian Christmas traditions.

* Restaurant Aquavit, a Scandinavian restaurant in New York

Aquavit usually has a yellowish hue, but this can vary from clear to light brown, depending on how long it has been aged in oak casks ( Norway ) or the amount of colorant used.

His 2004 novel Flight of Aquavit won the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery Novel.

Since civilizational change is the most difficult to perceive and analyze, it seldom is given adequate attention.

Yet even in the more extreme of such cases we seldom go very far astray in guessing what his age actually is.

These blocks are sold in various sizes so it seldom is necessary to cut a block to fit.

But Mother insisted, for it is seldom indeed that anyone remotely connected with the cinema is ever received in their exclusive midsts.

only seldom is it so simple as to be a matter of his obviously parroting some timeworn axiom, common to our culture, which he has evidently heard, over and over, from a parent until he experiences it as part of him.

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

The accumulated information on this point shows that first intercourse, even when it is achieved with minimum pain or difficulty, is seldom an overwhelming sexual experience to a woman.

What actually occurred in the past is seldom as important as what a given generation feels must have occurred.

After all, the field is large, difficult to define and seldom taught properly to American undergraduates.

In the academic world there is seldom anything so dramatic as a strike or a boycott: all that happens is that the better qualified teacher declines to gamble two or three years of his life on the chance that conditions at the Catholic institution will be as good as those elsewhere.

but because liquor has a high caloric value -- 100 calories per oz. -- the heavy drinker is seldom hungry.

To contrast with the more stereotyped descriptions, Christie often characterised the " foreigners " in such a way as to make the reader understand and sympathise with them ; this is particularly true of her Jewish characters, who are seldom actually criminals.

It is important to note that antibiotic therapy alone without surgical drainage of the abscess is seldom effective due to antibiotics often being unable to get into the abscess and their ineffectiveness at low pH levels.

The meaning of the legends is seldom intelligible: but some of the gems are amulets ; and the same may be the case with nearly all.

Because the choice of allophone is seldom under conscious control, people may not realize they exist.

That this succession depended on the fact of ordination to a vacant see and the status of those who administered the ordination is seldom commented on.

Due to the chronic nature of the treated disorders, antipsychotic medications, once started, are seldom discontinued, and the aim of the treatment is often to gradually reduce dosage to a minimum safe maintenance dose that is enough to control the symptoms.

There is also a U. S. Supreme Court case that predates the dictionary, Jackson ex dem Bradford v. Huntington, that uses the phrase " black letter " in the same sense as black letter law: " It is seldom that a case in our time savors so much of the black letter, but the course of decisions in New York renders it unavailable.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

Of the handful of painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S..

If nothing is produced, there is no obligation to repay.

The Black Hills Passion Play is produced every summer and is a pageant worth seeing and shooting.

One of the most significant advancements in design of plastics signs is the so-called trans-illuminated billboard, now being produced by several large sign manufacturers such as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, and Industrial Electric Inc., New Orleans, La..

It is possible that certain mutational forms may be produced such as antibiotic resistant strains.

The best way to determine the correct figure ( in captives ) is by direct observation of pairs isolated from birth, a method that produced surprising results: maturing of a male Indian python in less than two years, his mate in less than three ; ;

In both conditions the emotional and perceptual sensitivity is diminished, but no depression occurs such as is seen clinically or may be produced in normal persons by drugs.

If, for instance, such a change is produced by one or a few insulin comas or electroshocks, previously inhibited conditioned reactions reappear.

We assume that average total unit cost in the relevant region of operation is constant with respect to quantity produced ( the average cost curve is horizontal, and therefore is identical with the marginal cost curve ), and is the same for every firm ( and therefore for the industry ).

Costs of the effective energy produced by these sources is a major obstacle in the development of food-preservation processes.

The polyester urethane foam is generally produced with adipic acid polyesters ; ;

In one-shot, the isocyanate, polyester or polyether resin, catalyst, and other additives are mixed directly and a foam is produced immediately.

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The farm value of seeds produced in this country for all purposes, including the cereals, is nearly 10 billion dollars a year.

In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.