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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