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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