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This volume surveys the history, production, varieties, and social uses of beverages worldwide, from ancient wines, beers, and fermented milk to spirits, tea, coffee, cocoa, and non-alcoholic cordials. It combines historical anecdotes, regional descriptions, technical explanations of fermentation and distillation, accounts of trade and cultivation, notes on taste and medicinal claims, discussions of adulteration and regulation, serving customs and vessels, and numerous recipes and practical preparations. Organized by drink type and geography, it interleaves scientific analysis, folklore, and household instructions to portray how liquids have been manufactured, consumed, and incorporated into social and culinary life.

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Title: Drinks of the World

Author: James Mew

John Ashton

Release date: November 14, 2021 [eBook #66735]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

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“DRINKS”

Drinks
of the
World

BY
JAMES MEW,
Author of “Types from Spanish Story,” &c., &c.,
AND

JOHN ASHTON,
Author of “Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne,” &c., &c.

ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS.

1892.

LONDON:
The Leadenhall Press, 50, Leadenhall Street, E.C.
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.

NEW YORK: Scribner & Welford.

“Ingeniosa Sitis.”—Martial, Epig. xiv. 117.

“J’y ai songé comme un autre, et je suis tenté de mettre l’appétence des liqueurs fermentées, qui n’est pas connue des animaux, à côté de l’inquiétude de l’avenir, qui leur est étrangère, et de les regarder l’une et l’autre comme des attributs distinctifs du chef-d’œuvre de la dernière révolution sublunaire.”—Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Goût, Medit. 9.

“Ac si quis diligenter reputet, in nulla parte operosior vita est, ceu non saluberrimum ad potum aquæ liquorem natura dederit, quo cætera omnia animantia utuntur.”—Pliny, Nat. Hist. xiv. 28.

“Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.”—Ps. civ. 15.