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Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Smith, Andrew F. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) about?

A companion to the author's previous book, 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. The author revisits the country's major historical moments including 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 encounter with an 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 imm

Who reads Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Smith, Andrew F.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780231530996
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Cooking, Home & Lifestyle, History
Rating
3.68 / 5 (25 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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