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Drinking History : Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages / Andrew Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary HistoryPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231151177
  • 9780231530996
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.2 23
LOC classification:
  • TP527 .S65 2013
  • TP527 .S65 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Colonial Diversity -- 2. An Essential Ingredient in American Independence -- 3. Tea Parties -- 4. Tarantula Juice -- 5. Cider's Last Hurrah -- 6. The Most Popular Drink of the Day -- 7. Nature's Perfect Food -- 8. The Most Delightful and Insinuating Potations -- 9. Unfermented Wine -- 10. The Temperance Beverage -- 11. To Root Out a Bad Habit -- 12. Youth Beverages -- 13. Judgment of Paris -- 14. The Only Proper Drink for Man -- 15. The Coffee Experience -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: A companion to Andrew F. Smith's critically acclaimed and popular Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, this volume recounts the individuals, ingredients, corporations, controversies, and myriad events responsible for America's diverse and complex beverage scene. Smith revisits the country's major historical moments-colonization, the American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, the temperance movement, Prohibition, and its repeal-and he tracks the growth of the American beverage industry throughout the world. The result is an intoxicating encounter with an often overlooked aspect of American culture and global influence. Americans have invented, adopted, modified, and commercialized tens of thousands of beverages-whether alcoholic or nonalcoholic, carbonated or caffeinated, warm or frozen, watery or thick, spicy or sweet. These include uncommon cocktails, varieties of coffee and milk, and such iconic creations as Welch's Grape Juice, Coca-Cola, root beer, and Kool-Aid. Involved in their creation and promotion were entrepreneurs and environmentalists, bartenders and bottlers, politicians and lobbyists, organized and unorganized criminals, teetotalers and drunks, German and Italian immigrants, savvy advertisers and gullible consumers, prohibitionists and medical professionals, and everyday Americans in love with their brew. Smith weaves a wild history full of surprising stories and explanations for such classic slogans as "taxation with and without representation;" "the lips that touch wine will never touch mine;" and "rum, Romanism, and rebellion." He reintroduces readers to Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the colorful John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and he rediscovers America's vast literary and cultural engagement with beverages and their relationship to politics, identity, and health.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Colonial Diversity -- 2. An Essential Ingredient in American Independence -- 3. Tea Parties -- 4. Tarantula Juice -- 5. Cider's Last Hurrah -- 6. The Most Popular Drink of the Day -- 7. Nature's Perfect Food -- 8. The Most Delightful and Insinuating Potations -- 9. Unfermented Wine -- 10. The Temperance Beverage -- 11. To Root Out a Bad Habit -- 12. Youth Beverages -- 13. Judgment of Paris -- 14. The Only Proper Drink for Man -- 15. The Coffee Experience -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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A companion to Andrew F. Smith's critically acclaimed and popular Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, this volume recounts the individuals, ingredients, corporations, controversies, and myriad events responsible for America's diverse and complex beverage scene. Smith revisits the country's major historical moments-colonization, the American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, the temperance movement, Prohibition, and its repeal-and he tracks the growth of the American beverage industry throughout the world. The result is an intoxicating encounter with an often overlooked aspect of American culture and global influence. Americans have invented, adopted, modified, and commercialized tens of thousands of beverages-whether alcoholic or nonalcoholic, carbonated or caffeinated, warm or frozen, watery or thick, spicy or sweet. These include uncommon cocktails, varieties of coffee and milk, and such iconic creations as Welch's Grape Juice, Coca-Cola, root beer, and Kool-Aid. Involved in their creation and promotion were entrepreneurs and environmentalists, bartenders and bottlers, politicians and lobbyists, organized and unorganized criminals, teetotalers and drunks, German and Italian immigrants, savvy advertisers and gullible consumers, prohibitionists and medical professionals, and everyday Americans in love with their brew. Smith weaves a wild history full of surprising stories and explanations for such classic slogans as "taxation with and without representation;" "the lips that touch wine will never touch mine;" and "rum, Romanism, and rebellion." He reintroduces readers to Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the colorful John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and he rediscovers America's vast literary and cultural engagement with beverages and their relationship to politics, identity, and health.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)