Language historian Forsyth (The Elements of Eloquence, 2014, etc.)
At less than 300 pages, it’s the perfect length for me to squeeze into a week.
He includes many of the myths and stories that help explain drinking in certain cultures.
It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work.
The writing is lively and hilarious, and Simon Vance absolutely nails the narration.
A spirited narrative on the fascinating art and science of alcohol, sure to inspire cocktail party chats on making booze, tasting it, and its effects on our bodies and brains.
Sake began with a grain of rice.
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it.
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Get ready for some of the best...Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness.
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I also had not realized that a few other countries had a similar ban on alcohol about the same time frame.
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A spirited narrative on the fascinating art and science of alcohol, sure to inspire cocktail party chats on making booze, tasting it, and its effects on our bodies and brains.
Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist and blogger. It can send you to sleep, or send yAlmost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness.
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In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or quip like Oscar Wilde.
It can make a good gift for someone with a sense of humour and appreciation for the magical powers of alcohol :) I like to drink. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different.
Humans have been drinking the results for 10,000 years.
How much? But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different.
31 October 2017.
He started The Inky Fool blog in 2009 and now writes a post almost every day.
Thanks also for the sidebar mention of The Horologicon.