Rumpundit

I found a great reception for this concoction when I tried it a few weeks ago.. in two variants. Those who can remember it say they loved it. Those that can’t obviously loved it not wisely, but two well. Equal portions of Barbancourt’s Pango and Dry Champagne, with ice was the basic mix But later, [...]

Eat like a real pirate? No thanks on the slop & flamingos, but oh, that rum By Marene Gustin – October 13th, 2010 Last Friday the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship opened. The exhibit tells the tale of the slave ship [...]

In the Spirit of Scholarship, Rumpundit offers this posting from Oxford University Press which includes some fun details. I will also post later an essay written in Guyana in the 19th century which I am going to share with Liberman! The Rum History of the Word “Rum” By Anatoly Liberman The idea of this post, [...]