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Synopsis
This is not a book for would-be wine connoisseurs, nor a tract written for or against the pleasures of alcohol. It is an exploration of our drinking habits, our reasons for drinking, our choice of drinks, and the way these have changed through history. Naturally it covers wine and beer in all their variety, but it ranges over the whole field of drink consumption from distilled spirits to mineral water and from chocolate to Coco-Cola, and it sets them in the context of our changing life-style. Licensing laws and lager louts; the British invention of champagne; Gin Lane; expresso bars; Victorian dinners and the psychology of the British beer drinker: these are just a handful of the topics touched on in this survey of one of mankind's favourite activities. Other work by the author includes "Wine Snobbery: An Insider's Guide"
From the Author
British history seen through a drinking glass
"Drink" can be read several different ways: as a diatribe about how alcohol has been chosen as a scapegoat for deeper social problems; as a warming read for cold winter nights; as a alternative approach to British social history, seen through our attitudes to drink and our changes in our taste over the last millennium or so. The paperback edition contains a new preface bringing it up to date in the three years since the hardback appeared, with a rant about the wrong-headed official approach to drink-driving and the media-created scare about alcopops. The hardback was described as "Splendid and original" by the Independent on Sunday, "Fascinating" by the Daily Mail, "Absorbing" by the Guardian, etc. etc.
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