#brandy

#brandy

Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston was the first time I saw somebody who remotely looked like me in a Disney movie - and growing up wanting to be a performer, Disney was the all-time dream. Seeing Brandy, I was like, 'Oh my God, that can be me. If a beautiful Black woman can be a princess, I can be gay!' Cinderella is still a yearly watch for me.

Still, the restaurant, Frishkopf says, primarily serves to "set the table for our brandy." At the moment, brandy isn't flying off the shelves in the U.S, but Frishkop and his husband, Brett Mattingly, are playing a long game to establish regional brandy's preeminence.