Its most famous drink is the atomic cocktail—vodka, brandy, Champagne, splash of sherry.

That ice cream tastes very orangish - are you sure it's just passion fruit?

The extent of her [Catherine the Great’s] knowledge and her appetite for reading made her one of the best-read women in Europe and the most unusual and outstanding woman in Elizabethan Russia.

Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.