Drink
By Iain Gately
By Iain Gately
By Iain Gately
By Iain Gately
Category: Cooking Methods | World History
Category: Cooking Methods | World History
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$22.00
May 05, 2009 | ISBN 9781592404643
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Jul 03, 2008 | ISBN 9781440631269
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Praise
“Thorough, informative, briskly readable, and witty.”
-Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
“This is a book to be read with pleasure, best sipped in leisure like good bourbon.”
–Dallas Morning News
British author Iain Gately calls alcohol the “equivocal liquid,” and his exploration of our love-hate relationship with it is “by turns entertaining, inspiring, sobering, informative and simply fascinating,” writes reviewer Janice Kennedy in the Ottawa Citizen. As he did with Tobacco, his earlier cultural history, Gately offers what amounts to nothing less than a history of human civilization. From the archeological evidence of fermented potables in northern China nearly 10,000 years ago to the notion that American rap culture has been the salvation of France’s champagne and cognac industries with its taste for both pricey libations, Drink covers it all: the colour, comedy, catastrophe and controversy. Reviewer Kennedy concludes that “the book is bursting (or should that be overflowing?) with scrupulously researched facts, statistics, historical events and marvellous anecdotes, all of it just as scrupulously acknowledged in endnotes. But the wonder of it is its immense readability.” Buy it.
– The National Post (Canada)
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