And a Bottle of Rum
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
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Wayne Curtis
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And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of 10 cocktails, Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.
Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies - where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution - to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America, to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba, and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against "demon rum", Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, and today's bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter's Punch.
Awash with local color and wry humor, And a Bottle of Rum is an affectionate toast to this most American of liquors, a chameleon spirit that has been constantly reinvented over the centuries by tavern keepers, bootleggers, lounge lizards, and marketing gurus.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Narrado por: Richard Shelton
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 108
In The Book of Gin, Richard Barnett traces the life of this beguiling spirit, once believed to cause a new kind of drunkenness. In the 18th century, gin-craze debauchery (and class conflict) inspired Hogarth's satirical masterpieces "Gin Lane" and "Beer Street". In the 19th century, gin was drunk by Napoleonic War naval heroes, at lavish gin palaces, and by homesick colonials, who mixed it with their bitter anti-malarial tonics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history on my favorite drink
- De Lucas Samples en 10-18-20
De: Richard Barnett
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Bourbon Empire
- The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
- De: Reid Mitenbuler
- Narrado por: Brian O'Neill
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 553
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 500
Unraveling the many myths and misconceptions surrounding America's most iconic spirit, Bourbon Empire traces a history that spans frontier rebellion, Gilded Age corruption, and the magic of Madison Avenue. Whiskey has profoundly influenced America's political, economic, and cultural destiny, just as those same factors have inspired the evolution and unique flavor of the whiskey itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great whiskey history great American history
- De Larry G. en 06-16-15
De: Reid Mitenbuler
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
- De: Tom Standage
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,593
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3,960
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,972
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun and Informative
- De Stoker en 09-09-11
De: Tom Standage
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The Brewer's Tale
- A History of the World According to Beer
- De: William Bostwick
- Narrado por: Christopher Sutton
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 337
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 295
The Brewer's Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer's quest to bring them - and their ancient, forgotten beers - back to life, one taste at a time. This is the story of the world according to beer, a toast to flavors born of necessity and place - in Belgian monasteries, rundown farmhouses, and the basement nanobrewery next door. So pull up a barstool and raise a glass to 5,000 years of fermented magic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good insights!
- De Michael en 03-08-16
De: William Bostwick
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Imbibe! Updated and Revised Edition
- From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar
- De: David Wondrich
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
The first edition, published in 2007, won a James Beard Award. Now updated with newly discovered recipes and historical information, this updated edition includes the origins of the first American drink, the mint julep (which Wondrich places before the American Revolution) and those of the cocktail itself. It also provides more detail about 19th-century spirits, many new and colorful anecdotes and details about Thomas' life, and a number of particularly notable, delicious, and influential cocktails not covered in the original edition.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting history, but needs recipies
- De E. Atkinson en 03-02-20
De: David Wondrich
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The Big Oyster
- History on the Half Shell
- De: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 226
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants, the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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history of the oyster in America
- De Andy en 01-01-20
De: Mark Kurlansky
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Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey
- An American Heritage
- De: Michael R. Veach
- Narrado por: Travis
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 118
Its history stretches back almost to the founding of the nation and includes many colorful characters, both well known and obscure, from the hatchet-wielding prohibitionist Carry Nation to George Garvin Brown, who in 1872 created Old Forester, the first bourbon to be sold only by the bottle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice review
- De Joseph C Wood en 04-28-23
De: Michael R. Veach
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Whiskey Women
- The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
- De: Fred Minnick
- Narrado por: James Killavey
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Without women, whiskey may not exist. In Whiskey Women, Wall Street Journal-best-selling author Fred Minnick tells the tales of women who have created this industry, from Mesopotamia's first beer brewers and distillers to America's rough-and-tough bootleggers during Prohibition. Women have long distilled, marketed, and owned spirits companies. These strong women built many iconic brands, including Bushmills, Laphroaig, and Maker's Mark.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Women should be proud of this.
- De Tracy en 01-29-16
De: Fred Minnick
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Whiskey Distilled
- A Populist Guide to the Water of Life
- De: Heather Greene
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
In this lively and authoritative guide, Greene teaches listeners about whiskey and encourages them to make their own evaluations. Peppered with wry anecdotes drawn from her unusual life - and including recipes for delicious cocktails by some of today's most celebrated mixologists - Whiskey Distilled will be enthusiastically greeted by the whiskey curious as well as by journeymen whiskey drinkers thirsty to learn more about their beloved tipple.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Buy the hard copy, skip the audio!
- De P Boz en 08-20-15
De: Heather Greene
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The Taste of Conquest
- The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
- De: Michael Krondl
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities, Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam, that transformed the globe in the quest for spice.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not that bad.
- De EmperorTab en 10-19-08
De: Michael Krondl
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Short Course in Beer
- An Introduction to Tasting and Talking About the World's Most Civilized Beverage
- De: Lynn Hoffman
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 76
Straightforward and opinionated, Short Course in Beer is designed to turn the novice beer lover into an expert imbiber and the casual drinker into an enthusiast. Readers will come to understand the beauty of beer and the sources of its flavor, as well as learn which beers are worth our time and which are not. With tongue in cheek, the author examines beer's historical connections to the Crusades, the Hundred Years' War, and modern-day soccer riots. He talks frankly (and joyfully) about the effects of alcohol on the body and brain, he defends beer from its enemies, and ushers it out of the frat house and into the dining room.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An Ok Beer Book
- De AppleCedAR en 10-21-13
De: Lynn Hoffman
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The Mezcal Rush
- Explorations in Agave Country
- De: Granville Greene
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Mezcal. In recent years, the oldest spirit in the Americas has been reinvented as a pricy positional good popular among booze connoisseurs and the mixologists who use it as a cocktail ingredient. Unlike most high-end distillates, most small-batch mezcal is typically produced by and for subsistence farming communities, often under challenging conditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! Just Wow!
- De Si saben cómo me pongo ¿pa' qué me invitan? en 09-25-17
De: Granville Greene
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Drink
- A Cultural History of Alcohol
- De: Iain Gately
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 21 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to present day. Drink further documents the contribution of alcohol to the birth and growth of the United States, taking in the War of Independence, Pennsylvania Whiskey revolt, slave trade, and failed experiment of national Prohibition. Finally, it provides a history of the world's most famous drinks - and drinkers. Packed with trivia and colorful characters, Drink amounts to an intoxicating history of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Ben en 02-23-22
De: Iain Gately
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Judgment of Paris
- California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine
- De: George M. Taber
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 371
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History houses, amid its illustrious artifacts, two bottles of wine: a 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon and a 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay. These are the wines that won at the now-famous Paris Tasting in 1976, where a panel of top French wine experts compared some of France's most famous wines with a new generation of California wines. Little did they know the wine industry would be completely transformed as a result....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Only for the wine-obsessed
- De History en 12-01-11
De: George M. Taber
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When America First Met China
- An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: A. T. Chandler
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior book! Excellent read!
- De melissa c. en 01-28-23
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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For All the Tea in China
- How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
- De: Sarah Rose
- Narrado por: Sarah Rose
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 286
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 195
In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. For All the Tea in China is the remarkable account of Fortune's journeys into China - a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Like Fingernails on a Chalkboard
- De S. Mersereau en 05-28-10
De: Sarah Rose
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The Taste of Empire
- How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
- De: Lizzie Collingham
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Overall really interesting and informative
- De Amazon Customer en 01-01-21
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The first edition, published in 2007, won a James Beard Award. Now updated with newly discovered recipes and historical information, this updated edition includes the origins of the first American drink, the mint julep (which Wondrich places before the American Revolution) and those of the cocktail itself. It also provides more detail about 19th-century spirits, many new and colorful anecdotes and details about Thomas' life, and a number of particularly notable, delicious, and influential cocktails not covered in the original edition.
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No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the 21st-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: It might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-16th century - from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria.
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Flawed, but worthwhile
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The Drunken Botanist
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Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers, trees, and fruits (and even a few fungi).
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No more cheap tequila!
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Bourbon Empire
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Unraveling the many myths and misconceptions surrounding America's most iconic spirit, Bourbon Empire traces a history that spans frontier rebellion, Gilded Age corruption, and the magic of Madison Avenue. Whiskey has profoundly influenced America's political, economic, and cultural destiny, just as those same factors have inspired the evolution and unique flavor of the whiskey itself.
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In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world.
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Piña coladas. Mojitos. Hurricanes. Daiquiris. Mai tais. Nothing makes a vacation like one of these delightful rum drinks, right? But whether blended with ice and fruit or sipped neatly from a glass tumbler, this sweet and fiery spirit brings with it a fascinating, complicated history that stretches back to colonial times of the 17th century in the Caribbean.
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This is not the history of Rum
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The Flavor Equation
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Aroma, texture, sound, emotion—these are just a few of the elements that play into our perceptions of flavor. The Flavor Equation demonstrates how to convert approachable spices, herbs, and commonplace pantry items into tasty, simple dishes. In this groundbreaking book, Nik Sharma, scientist, food blogger, and author of the buzz-generating cookbook Season, guides home cooks on an exploration of flavor in more than 100 recipes.
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Good Info on Food Science and Indian Recipes
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On Spice
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Every home cook has thoughts on the right and wrong ways to use spices. These beliefs are passed down in family recipes and pronounced by television chefs, but where do such ideas come from? Many are little better than superstition, and most serve only to reinforce a cook's sense of superiority or cover for their insecurities. It doesn't have to be this way. These notes On Spice come from three generations of a family in the spice trade, and dozens upon dozens of their collected spice guides and stories.
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Yummy!
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Periodic Tales
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Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look like, how they exist in nature, how they got their names, or of what use they are to us.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Textile bucket list.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-18-21
De: Clare Hunter
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Revolution 1989
- The Fall of the Soviet Empire
- De: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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For more than 40 years, communism held eight European nations in its iron fist. Yet by the end of 1989, all of these nations had thrown off communism, declared independence, and embarked on the road to democracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unsurpassed
- De Mike From Mesa en 06-28-12
De: Victor Sebestyen
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Paper
- Paging Through History
- De: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable
- De Vicki en 02-16-17
De: Mark Kurlansky
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The Shortest History of China
- From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
- De: Linda Jaivin
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics, and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese history is nothing if not messy. Heroes are also villains; prosperity mingles with violence; cultural vibrancy coexists with censorship and repression. Modern China is seen variously as an economic powerhouse, an icon of urbanization, a propaganda state, and an aggressive superpower seeking world domination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Emma en 10-23-24
De: Linda Jaivin
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
- A Social History
- De: Elizabeth Norton
- Narrado por: Jennifer Dixon
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife, when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this book!
- De Kathi en 08-17-17
De: Elizabeth Norton
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Lost Feast
- Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
- De: Lenore Newman
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well researched
- De Kenny en 11-20-23
De: Lenore Newman
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A Short History of the World According to Sheep
- De: Sally Coulthard
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the rolling hills of medieval England to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Starting with our Neolithic ancestors' first forays into sheep-rearing nearly 10,000 years ago, these remarkable animals have fed us, clothed us, changed our diet and languages, helped us to win wars, decorated our homes and financed the conquest of large swathes of the earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I couldn't stop talking about sheep after reading
- De Hayley Robertson en 07-19-22
De: Sally Coulthard
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Whiskey Business
- How Small-Batch Distillers Are Transforming American Spirits
- De: Tom Acitelli
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Discover the underdog story of the improbable rise of small-batch distilling in America. This bracingly written, fast-paced work traces the relationship of Americans to spirits such as bourbon, scotch, vodka, gin, and rum. And it presents the full story of a plucky band of entrepreneurs who disrupted the nation's conception of how those libations could appear and taste - and how much they could cost.
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3 out of 5 stars
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mispronounciation
- De Jason Valentine en 04-11-18
De: Tom Acitelli
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- N. D. Hemingway
- 03-13-19
Informative, but lots of tangents
"*AND* a Bottle of Rum" is an apt title, as the book contains a lot of general history that to me seemed to drag on at times. That being said, there's a lot of great insight to be gained from this book, and it's definitely worth a listen.
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- BobW
- 02-05-24
a Light and Enjoyable flow
Does a wonderful job of personalizing Rum through the years and it's relation to history
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- What’s Good English
- 07-09-18
Incredibly entertaining
All things being honest I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. The narration was spot on and it has an interesting take on history. This has been one of the best books I've read all year.
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- Kevin
- 11-25-20
Fun history of rum
Witty and interesting history of rum with a great guide of different rums at the end.
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- John E. Fetzner
- 05-28-21
So much information I listened to it twice already
I really enjoyed this book. There truly is so much information. I find myself going back and referring to it often. It has given me multiple places to start my own research. I'm sure it won't be long before I listen to it again.
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- B. Shaff
- 07-24-18
Really interesting!
If you like your booze with some history or vise versa this is a book for you.
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- James M.
- 10-10-19
Get the history and a tune up
Rum can lead you down many paths. This book fleshes our many of those areas while still giving you a broad over view of rums history. It also promises as a guide to many of the different styles, Nd what is and is not rum. I have read a few rum books in the past and while many are reasonable this one is what I would now recomment.
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- Garshom L. Arkoff
- 05-10-23
A nice intersection of history and rum
Honestly, I picked this book up on a whim. Audible was having a two-fer sale and there was another title that I wanted on the sale, so I got this one too, and I am glad that I did.
While I enjoy spirits, I am not a rum drinker. This book is more a history of the spirit, with each chapter nicely separated out as a period in the history of rum.
Each chapter is named after a run drink that was popular at the time. The author incorporates that drink into the telling about that period in history.
The author’s writing style is very engaging. Even though there are a lot of facts, it never drags on like some history books do.
Get the book. You will not regret it.
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- Robert
- 09-04-19
Extraordinary
I will never look at Rum the same way! Really interesting and fun book. Yo ho ho!
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- ryan
- 04-29-20
An American view of rum and it's history
If your just intrested in sociology drink history you're in the right place. If you want to know more about the history of rum itself you're in the right place. If you just want a few good rum drink ideas and directions on how to make them you're in the right place. If all that sounds good to you, buy the book
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