Carlsbad health cures; Becherovka (Popik)

[jester at PANIX.COM]

Forwarded from Barry Popik, who is having mail trouble:


>    Greetings from Karlovy Vary.  That's Carlsbad to you.  It's known for its hot, curing waters full of sulpher--that the natives avoid.  It's also known for its "12th spring"--the Becherovka factory.
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> CARLSBAD HEALTH CURES
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>    From the brochures:
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> SANATORIUM ELWA--Offers gerovital, pneumopuncture, magnetotherapy, and oxygenotherapy, among others.
> SANSSOUCI SPA SANATORIUM--Offers Gerovital (regeneration cure) if you stay 14 days.  Has peta, mud, parafango treatment, plus photo therapy, thermotherapy, and pneumopuncture.
> RICHMOND SPA HOTEL--Also offers gerovital treatment, also for 14 days.
> SPA CENTER SVYCARSKY DVUR--Offers magnetotherapy, oxygen therapy, and cryothereapy, among others.
> LAZENSKA LECEBNA SPA SANATORIUM--Has "Scottish jets (showers)."
> BOHEMIA LAZNE--Has "Scottish jets--bubble basin."  (Gotta check those Scottish jets when I return.  May be a Star Trek thing--ed.)
> AKROPOLIS DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CENTRE--"Completely new in Karlovy Vary is the BONE DENSITOMETRY by means of a Hi-tech U.S. made apparatus Hologic 4500C using dual-photone method which is precise and safe...  This examination is necessary in OSTEOPOROSIS prevention..."
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> BECHEROVKA
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>    The Becherovka factory and museum are located here in Karlovy Vary.  From a postcard, 7 WONDERS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC:
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> 1. BE-TON--Becherovka, tonic water, ice, slice of lemon
> 2. RED MOON--Becherovka, black currant juice, soda water, ice
> 3. BE-COOL--Becherovka in a frozen glass
> 4. BABE--Becherovka, banana juice, soda water, ice
> 5. ON THE ROCKS--Becherovka, ice
> 6. FRESH SMASHIN--Becherovka, grapefuit juice, ice
> 7. THE ORIGINAL--Becherovka bottled
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> OLD BOHEMIAN PLATTER
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>    From several restaurants:
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> OLD BOHEMIAN PLATTER--pork and smoked meat, red and white cabbage, dumplings
> OLD BOHEMIAN PLATE--pork roll, roast pork, sausage, bacon, cabbage, Bohemian dumplings, potato pancakes
> BOHEMIAN PLATE--roast, smoked pork, chicken, cabbage
> BOHEMIAN PLATE--(3 kinds of pork) with variation of bohemian dumplings, sauerkraut and red cabbage
> CZECH PLATE--roast, smoked spare rib of pork
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> "BIG APPLE" DESSERT
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>    I suggested this flavor to Ben & Jerry's years ago.  From the menu of the Grandhotel Pupp:
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> BIG APPLE--apple ice cream with nuts, vanilla ice-cream raisins, wetted with rum and all that decorated with stick of puff-pastry and apple
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> FOOD MISC.
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> ELIZABETH ICE CREAM CUP--eggnog
> CHARLES ICE CREAM CUP--Baileys
> TOAST CALIFORNIA (another sighting)--with ham, pineapple, peach, and cheese gratinated
> CHICKEN BREAST "HAWAI"--(pineapple, cream) vegetable
> CHICKENSTEAK "HAWAI"--pineapple, cheese, ham
> CHICKEN STEAK "HAWAI"--with ham, pineapples, nuts
> MOCCACHINO--Nestle's offers this.  Gotta work on this coffee thing when I return.
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