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Lemon Drop Martini
Lemon drop may refer to: Food and drink * Lemon drop (candy), a type of candy * Lemon drop (cocktail), a vodka-based cocktail Plants * Lemon drop mangosteen, two species of trees * Lemon drop pepper, a pepper variety * Sunquat, also known as lemondrop, a variety of citrus fruit Music * Vintage V100MRPGM Lemon Drop, guitar * "Lemon Drop", a bop standard tune written by George Wallington * "Lemon Drop", a song by Logic from '' Supermarket'' See also * ''The Lemon Drop Kid'', 1951 comedy film based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon * Lemon Drop Kid Lemon Drop Kid (foaled May 26, 1996) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Best known for winning the 1999 Belmont Stakes, he was also the champion older horse of 2000 after winning the Brooklyn, Suburban, Whitney Handicaps and the ... (born 1996), racehorse * The Mighty Lemon Drops, an English rock band {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemon Drop (candy)
A lemon drop is a sugar coated, lemon-flavored candy that is typically colored yellow and often shaped like a lemon. They can be sweet or have a more sour flavor. Lemon drops are made by boiling sugar, water and cream of tartar until it reaches the hard crack stage. As the mixture cools, lemon flavor is added. The candy is then rolled into long ropes, cut into small pieces and rolled in sugar. Lemon drops originated in England, where confectioners learned that adding acid such as lemon juice to the boiled sugar mixture prevented sugar from crystallizing.Chu, Anita. ''Field Guide to Candy: How to Identify and Make Virtually Every Candy Imaginable''. Philadelphia: Quirk, 2009. The term "lemon drop" is also occasionally applied to lemon-flavored throat lozenges, and an alcoholic drink consisting of lemon juice, vodka and sugar. A forerunner of the lemon drop is the Salem Gibraltar, and created in 1806. Modern lemon drops, like most hard candies we know today, descend from ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemon Drop (cocktail)
A lemon drop is a vodka-based cocktail that has a lemony, sweet and sour flavor, prepared using lemon juice, triple sec and simple syrup. It has been described as a variant of, or as "a take on", the Vodka Martini, but is in actual fact a closer to a White Lady variant. It is typically prepared and served straight up – chilled with ice and strained. The drink was invented sometime in the 1970s by Norman Jay Hobday, the founder and proprietor of Henry Africa's bar in San Francisco, California. Some variations of the drink exist, such as blueberry and raspberry lemon drops. It is served at some bars and restaurants in the United States, and in such establishments in other areas of the world. Overview A lemon drop is a cocktail with a lemony, sweet and sour flavor, whereby the sweet and sour ingredients serve to contrast and balance one another. It is a vodka-based cocktail that is prepared with the addition of lemon juice, triple sec and simple syrup. Plain or citrus- flavored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemon Drop Mangosteen
The vernacular name lemon drop mangosteen is applied to two species of tropical American fruit trees. * '' Garcinia intermedia'' * '' Garcinia madruno'' {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemon Drop Pepper
The Lemon Drop pepper, ''Ají Limón'' or ''Ají Limo'', is a hot, citrus-like, lemon-flavored pepper which is a popular seasoning pepper in Peru, where it is known as ''qillu uchu''. A member of the baccatum species, the lemon drop is a cone pepper that is around long and wide with some crinkling. Description Plants of the lemon drop variety are typical representatives of the species ''Capsicum baccatum ''Capsicum baccatum'' is a member of the genus ''Capsicum'', and is one of the five domesticated chili pepper species. The fruit tends to be very pungent, and registers 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville Heat Unit scale. Chili pepper varieties in ...''. In the first year they can reach a height of . The plant grows upright and is highly branched. The leaves are dark green and relatively narrow, the petals are whitish - green and carry yellow - green spots on the base. Lemon drop is a high yielding chilli plant, in a year one plant can produce over 100 fruits. The time betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunquat
A sunquat, also known as lemonquat or lemondrop, is a variety of citrus fruit, having an edible rind. It was initially created by Leslie Cude in Beeville, Texas, as a chance hybrid between a lemon (likely a 'Meyer') and a kumquat Kumquats (; zh, 金桔), or cumquats in Australian English, are a group of small fruit-bearing trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae. Their taxonomy is disputed. They were previously classified as forming the now-historical genus ''Fortun .... The fruit is often sliced thin, having a somewhat tart flavor. References External links Picture Lemons Kumquats {{fruit-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vintage V100MRPGM Lemon Drop
The Vintage V100MRPGM Lemon Drop is a Gibson Les Paul-style solid-body electric guitar, designed by Trevor Wilkinson for Vintage in 2006. The Vintage "Lemon Drop" is influenced by the look and sound of English guitarist Peter Green's legendary Gibson Les Paul (later purchased by Irish guitarist Gary Moore Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 19526 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and jazz ... directly from Green and now owned by Kirk Hammett of Metallica). On Green's guitar, the neck pickup was fitted backwards and wired out of phase; the V100MRPGM's pickups were voiced to imitate that specific tonal quality, and the pickups are wired to be out of phase when the selector switch is set to the middle position. External links * RevieVintage "Lemon Drop"(Guitar and Bass, December 2006). Vintage V100 Lemon Drop {{Guitars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wallington
George Wallington (October 27, 1924 – February 15, 1993) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Early life Wallington was born Giacinto Figlia (some sources give "Giorgio") in Sicily, and then moved to the United States (New York) with his family in 1925. His father sang opera and introduced his son to classical music, but Wallington listened to jazz after hearing the music of saxophonist Lester Young. He said that he acquired the name Wallington in high school: "I like to wear flashy clothes ..and the kids in the neighborhood would say, 'Hey, look at Wallington!'" He left school at the age of 15 to play piano in New York. Later life and career From 1943 to 1953, Wallington played with Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Marsala, Charlie Parker, Serge Chaloff, Allen Eager, Kai Winding, Terry Gibbs, Brew Moore, Al Cohn, Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims, and Red Rodney, and recorded as a leader for Savoy and Blue Note (1950). Wallington toured Europe in 1953 with Lionel Hampton's big band.Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supermarket (Logic Album)
''Supermarket'' is the only soundtrack album by American rapper Logic. It was released on March 26, 2019, by Def Jam Recordings and Visionary Music Group. The soundtrack serves as a tie-in for the novel of the same name. The soundtrack was released to negative reviews by music critics, and it peaked at number 56 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Promotion The release date was announced on January 10, 2019. Reception The album received generally negative reviews. Danny Schwartz, writing for ''Rolling Stone'', characterized ''Supermarket'' as "uniquely bad", "bold yet bland" and a "suite of vapid love songs". Reed Jackson of ''Pitchfork'' described it as "a painful journey across guitar music of the past five decades." Calum Slingerland of ''Exclaim!'' negatively reviewed both the album and the accompanying novel, stating that "those who aren't card-carrying Rattpack devotees will come away with little to chew on". The album peaked at number 56 on the ''Billboard'' 200, with 11,823 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lemon Drop Kid
''The Lemon Drop Kid'' is a 1951 American comedy film based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon, starring Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. Although Sidney Lanfield is credited as the director, Frank Tashlin reportedly was hired, uncredited, to finish the film. The story had previously been adapted as a 1934 film starring Lee Tracy, with actress Ann Sheridan in a bit part. William Frawley is featured in both versions. The song " Silver Bells," sung by Hope and Maxwell, was introduced in this film. On October 19, 2010, the film was released on DVD through Shout! Factory under license from the film's current distributor, FremantleMedia North America. Plot The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope), a New York City swindler, is illegally touting horses at a Florida racetrack. The Kid touts across a beautiful woman intending to bet $2,000 on a horse named Iron Bar. Rigging a con, the Kid convinces her to switch her bet, but learns that she was betting for boyfriend and notor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemon Drop Kid
Lemon Drop Kid (foaled May 26, 1996) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Best known for winning the 1999 Belmont Stakes, he was also the champion older horse of 2000 after winning the Brooklyn, Suburban, Whitney Handicaps and the Woodward Stakes. Background Lemon Drop Kid is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Kentucky by William S. Farish III & William S. Kilroy. He was sired by Kingmambo an American-bred horse who raced in Europe before returning to the United States to become a highly successful breeding stallion. His dam Charming Lassie, a daughter of Seattle Slew, went on to produce Statue of Liberty, a colt which won the Coventry Stakes in 2002. Charming Lassie's dam was Lassie Dear, an influential broodmare whose other descendants have included A.P. Indy, Summer Squall, Duke of Marmalade and Wolfhound. Racing career As a two-year-old in 1998 Lemon Drop Kid showed himself to be a very promising colt with a victory in the Grde I Belmont Futurity in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
