The kitchen serves fried fish dishes and fierce cocktails such as the machacao, made from white rum, lime juice and potent yerba mate tea.

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Newcomers are greeted with a Ylang-Ylang scented cold towel to refresh and revive, along with a bottle of local white rum to concoct a welcome cocktail.

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The guests were served an all-white, seven-layer white rum wedding cake that was covered in white fondant and sugar crystals, and adorned with crystal brooches and the couples' monogram on the top layer.

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The ONS said that the spirits drunk by younger people were reflected with the addition of white rum from off-licences, but some sales of champagne have been withdrawn because the amount of bubbly drunk continues to fall.

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Stateside, White and Church in New York City serves up a trio of insect cocktails, including a cinnamon-flavoured rum paired with honeybees, a margarita-like drink with Mexican spicy worms, and a Batida de Cocco drink with heavy cream and dried grasshoppers.

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