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Curaçao (liqueur), the Glossary

Curaçao is a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the bitter orange variety laraha, a citrus fruit grown on the Caribbean island of Curaçao.^[1]

27 relations: Amsterdam, Aron Mendes Chumaceiro, Bitter orange, Brilliant blue FCF, Citrus, Cocktail, Curaçao, Dutch East India Company, Dutch West India Company, Essential oil, Flanders, Grimod de La Reynière, Gunny sack, Holland, Landhuis, Laraha, Liqueur, List of liqueur brands, Lucas Bols, Miss Hook of Holland, Orange (fruit), Spanish colonization of the Americas, Sugarcane, Triple sec, Vanity Fair (novel), Willemstad, William Makepeace Thackeray.
Culture of Curaçao
Dutch liqueurs
Orange liqueurs

Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Aron Mendes Chumaceiro

Aron Mendes Chumaceiro (28 January 1810, Amsterdam—18 September 1882, Amsterdam) was chakam (rabbi) of Curaçao, Dutch West Indies.

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Bitter orange

Bitter orange, sour orange, Seville orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange is in a narrow sense the citrus tree Citrus × aurantium and its fruit.

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Brilliant blue FCF

Brilliant blue FCF (Blue 1) is a synthetic organic compound used primarily as a blue colorant for processed foods, medications, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.

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Cocktail

A cocktail is a mixed drink, usually alcoholic.

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Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.

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Dutch West India Company

The Dutch West India Company or WIC (Westindische Compagnie) was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors, formally known as GWC (Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie; Chartered West India Company).

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Essential oil

An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (easily evaporated at normal temperatures) chemical compounds from plants.

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Flanders

Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.

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Grimod de La Reynière

Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (20 November 1758 in Paris – 25 December 1837) was a lawyer by qualification who acquired fame during the reign of Napoleon for his sensual and public gastronomic lifestyle.

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Gunny sack

A gunny sack, also known as a gunny shoe, burlap sack, hessian sack or tow sack, is a large sack, traditionally made of burlap (Hessian fabric) formed from jute, hemp, sisal, or other natural fibres, usually in the crude spun form of tow.

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Holland

Holland is a geographical regionG.

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Landhuis

A landhuis (Dutch for "mansion, manor", plural landhuizen; Indonesian: rumah kongsi; Papiamento: kas di shon or kas grandi) is a Dutch colonial country house, often the administrative heart of a particuliere land or private domain in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.

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Laraha

Laraha (Citrus × aurantium subsp. currassuviencis), or Curaçao orange (Citrus aurantium var. currassuviencis), is the name of a citrus tree that grows on the island of Curaçao, and also the fruit of this tree.

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Liqueur

A liqueur is an alcoholic drink composed of spirits (often rectified spirit) and additional flavorings such as sugar, fruits, herbs, and spices.

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List of liqueur brands

Liqueurs are alcoholic beverages that are bottled with added sugar and have added flavours that are usually derived from fruits, herbs, or nuts.

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Lucas Bols

Lucas Bols N.V. is a Dutch public company in the business of production, distribution, sales and marketing of alcoholic beverages.

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Miss Hook of Holland

Miss Hook of Holland is an English musical comedy (styled a "Dutch Musical Incident") in two acts, with music and lyrics by Paul Rubens with a book by Austen Hurgon and Rubens.

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Orange (fruit)

An orange, also called sweet orange when it is desired to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.

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Triple sec

Triple sec is an orange-flavoured liqueur that originated in France. Curaçao (liqueur) and Triple sec are orange liqueurs.

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Vanity Fair (novel)

Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

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Willemstad

Willemstad is the capital and largest city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curaçao_(liqueur)

Also known as Blue Curaçao, Curaçao liqueur, Curaçao liqueurs, Orange Curacao.