The International Medical Congress convened in Philadelphia in September, 1876. The National Temperance Society felt it important to seek a declaration from such a prominent group to address the status of alcohol as medicine. This publication is the paper presented to the Medical Congress in its entirety. It provides the reader with a historical perspective of the temperance movement in America in the 19th century.

Boost your hydration with over 100 refreshing concoctions that are as tasty as they are healthy! Up your hydration game with Infused Waters and Ice, the ultimate collection of fruit, flower, vegetable, and herb infusions! Packed with over 100 creative and refreshing recipes, this book has something for you - whether you are looking to boost your metabolism, enhance your energy levels, aid digestion, or simply add a little extra glow to your skin! From fruits and flowers to herbs and spices, this book features delicious and unexpected flavor combinations of infused water, ice cubes, and mocktails for your guests to enjoy!

World-leading coffee expert and best-selling author of The World Atlas of Coffee shows you how to make barista-level coffee at home.

We all expect to be able to buy an excellent cup of coffee from the many brilliant coffee shops available. But what about the coffee we make at home? Shouldn't that be just as good?

James Hoffmann is an entrepreneur and the international name in coffee, combining expert-level knowledge with a wonderful ability to communicate it. James runs Square Mile Coffee, as well as creating extremely informative, and popular, coffee and equipment reviews for his YouTube and Instagram channels. In his latest book he demonstrates everything you need to know to make consistently excellent coffee at home, including: what equipment is worth buying, and what isn't; how to grind coffee; the basics of brewing for all major equipment (cafetiere, aeropress, stovetop etc); understanding coffee drinks, from the cortado to latte and the perfect espresso.

This is an exploration into how a certain plant became a global commodity, creating fortunes and despair, bringing people together and tearing them apart, playing a starring role in the awakening of the modern world.

From the creators of the best-selling and classic favorite The Art of Mixology cocktail book comes our Mocktails recipe book. A mocktail is the perfect choice for the sober-curious, expectant mothers, those with an alcohol-free lifestyle, and anyone just looking for an alternative to booze! These creative beverage recipes blend flavors that are perfect for every season. Learn the techniques a skilled mixologist keeps in their arsenal, and stir up some truly delicious flavors focused around fresh ingredients and healthy living. From shrub syrups and fruit cordials to iced teas and smoothies, these mocktails will keep your taste buds stimulated. And with recipes like Sangria Seca to Virgin Ginger Fizz, your parties will be full of sparkle!

Explore the chemistry of cocktails and mocktails with The Art of Mixology. Become your own bartender and create new, delicious concoctions using the best of traditional and contemporary recipes. Have fun and make yourself a drink!

Collect all of the titles in our Mixology series - The Original Mixology Book, Gin, Rum, and now including Word Search Intoxicating Puzzles, The Essential Guide to Cocktails and holiday essential Making Spirits Bright.

• CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY RECIPES: More than 50 creative mocktail recipes!
• ACCOMMODATES ALL LEVELS: This ultimate cocktail recipe book is made for beginners, experts, and everyone in between.
• RECIPES & PHOTOS: 192 pages full of beautiful images of non-alcoholic cocktail recipes will inspire any budding mixologist. Stir up everything from a fresh Lavender Lemonade to a very berry Juniper Julep. Mocktails promote healthy lifestyle choices and offer fantastic flavors for everyone.
• TEACHES THE BASICS: Recipes are easy to follow for even the most novice mixologist.
• MAKES A GREAT GIFT: Beautiful foiled cover looks as classy on the coffee table as the mocktails look in their glasses. Perfect gift for an expecting mother, sober-curious friend, and trendsetter.

Did you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men 'unfit to do their business' and blamed for women becoming unattractive? On the other hand, a cup of chocolate was supposed to have exactly the opposite effect on the drinker's sex life and physical appearance. These three beverages arrived in England in the 1650s from faraway, exotic places: tea from China, coffee from the Middle East and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Physicians, diarists and politicians were quick to comment on their supposed benefits and alleged harmfulness, using newspapers, pamphlets and handbills both to promote and denounce their sudden popularity. Others seized the opportunity to serve the growing appetite for these newly discovered drinks by setting up coffee houses or encouraging one-upmanship in increasingly elaborate tea-drinking rituals. How did the rowdy and often comical initial reception of these drinks form the roots of today's enduring caffeine culture? From the tale of the goatherd whose animals became frisky on coffee berries to a duchess with a goblet of poisoned chocolate, this book, illustrated with eighteenth-century satirical cartoons and early advertisements, tells the extraordinary story of our favourite hot drinks.

Time for Tea is a celebration of Fortnum's passion for tea in its every form. Drawing on over 300 years of experience, you will find the history, geography, seasonality of tea – everything from leaf to cup – as well as 50 delicious recipes.

Fortnum & Mason has nearly as much experience of selling tea as Britain has of drinking it – some three centuries’ worth, in fact, since the early eighteenth century.

This fun and deeply authoritative guide whisks you through all the information you need to get the most out of your cuppa. It instructs on how to make the perfect brew or infusion and helps identify a wide range of teas to try that will suit different tastes whether for a single estate Darjeeling, a smoky or a delicate tea from China or a regular builder’s. It also explores which teas are best to kickstart the day, revive the spirits or soothe at evening’s end. And now, enough of the talk, it’s Time for Tea.

From the bestselling author of This Naked Mind It's YOUR body It's YOUR mind It's YOUR choice There are a million reasons to drink. It tastes great. You feel alive. It helps you relax. But are you really in control? The Alcohol Experiment shows a new way of thinking and offers a 30-day programme with a difference. It asks you to look closer at why you drink, what you get out of it and whether it's really the alcohol that's giving you what you want. From the bestselling author of This Naked Mind, Annie Grace gives you the tools to take control of your drinking for good.

Costa Rica After Coffee explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. In this follow-up to the 1986 classic Costa Rica Before Coffee, Lowell Gudmundson delves deeply into archival sources, alongside the individual histories of key coffee-growing families, to explore the development of the co-op movement, the rise of the gourmet coffee market, and the societal transformations Costa Rica has undergone as a result of the coffee industry's powerful presence in the country. While Costa Rican coffee farmers and co-ops experienced a golden age in the 1970s and 1980s, the emergence and expansion of a gourmet coffee market in the 1990s drastically reduced harvest volumes. Meanwhile, urbanization and improved education among the Costa Rican population threatened the continuance of family coffee farms, because of the lack of both farmland and a successor generation of farmers. As the last few decades have seen a rise in tourism and other industries within the country, agricultural exports like coffee have ceased to occupy the same crucial space in the Costa Rican economy. Gudmundson argues that the fulfillment of promises of reform from the co-op era had the paradoxical effect of challenging the endurance of the coffee industry.

This is a short, entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Africa over a millennium ago, to what it is today, a global phenomenon that is enjoyed around the world. It is the perfect gift for coffee lovers, including chapters on the rise of the coffeehouse, legal bans on coffee, Brazil's domination of the world coffee trade and the birth of the espresso.