Brandy as crêpe Suzette and cherries jubilee while serving. Brandy is traditionally poured over Christmas pudding and set alight. The flames consume most of the alcohol but the pudding is left with a distinctive flavour. The term "brandy" is a shortening of "brandywine", which was derived from the Dutch word "brandewijn", itself derived from "gebrande wijn", which literally means "burned wine". In the general colloquial usage of the term, brandy may also be made from pomace and from fermented fruit other than grapes. If a beverage comes from a particular fruit (or multiple fruits) other than exclusively grapes, or from the
Brandy Colbert Brandy Colbert Brandy Colbert is an American author of young adult fiction and non-fiction. Colbert was born and raised in the Ozarks, in Springfield, Missouri. The works of Dorothy West, Barthe DeClements, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, and Zadie Smith were impactful to her writing career. She began working on what would be her debut novel, "Pointe", in 2009, inspired by reports of long-term kidnapping cases. Her debut young adult "Pointe", following a teen dancer in suburban Chicago who has to come to terms with her dark past, was published in 2014 by Putnam. It received a starred review from Publishers