![]() ![]() ![]() Some are entertaining while others border on tangent. In between, the author attempts to connect thousands of years of drinking history with a myriad of anecdotes and asides. The book begins with a deep dive into the role of alcohol in ancient Chinese and Egyptian civilizations and ends with a somewhat rambling discussion of the upward trajectory of booze consumption in the U.S. To embark on digesting this 500 page volume is to, quite literally, go back to history class. Few authors, however, attempt to cover all types of alcohol, much less place it in the context of recorded history, but that’s exactly what Iain Gately has done in his sizable tome Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol. Spirits books, mostly focusing on the recent whiskey craze, seem to hit the shelves every other week. ![]() There are plenty of wine books out there, and a smaller, yet not insignificant, number of books on beer. ![]()
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