Download And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails AudioBook Free
And a Container of Rum instructs the raucously entertaining report of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. Having a chapter for every single of 10 cocktails, Wayne Curtis shows that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding glucose trade has were able to infiltrate every stratum of New World society. Curtis calls for us from the taverns of the North american colonies - where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution - to the plundering pirate boats off the seacoast of Central America, to the watering slots of pre-Castro Cuba, and also to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Listed below are glucose barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous drive, Prohibitionists marching against "demon rum", Hemingway fattening his liver organ with Havana daiquiris, and today's bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter's Punch. Awash with local color and wry humor, And a Container of Rum is an affectionate toast to this most American of liquors, a chameleon spirit that has been constantly reinvented above the centuries by tavern keepers, bootleggers, lounge lizards, and marketing experts.
