Its popularity in the U.S. pretty much starts and stops there, but in France, as well as Britain and Northern Europe, the dried blue-black berries have a rightful place alongside thyme, rosemary and bay.

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He starts with grain alcohol and adds ingredients such as lemon peels, mixed berries and even black truffle shavings.

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