A bitter aromatic liquid used in small amounts to flavor drinks and foods, made from a blend of spices; originally associated with the city of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar) in Venezuela.
Named after Angostura (meaning 'narrow strait' in Spanish), a city on the Orinoco River in Venezuela where the bitters were originally produced in the 1820s by Dr. Johann Siegert, a German physician.
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