(Ebook free) Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
• Patrick E. McGovern •
| #144422 in Books | McGovern Patrick E | 2009-10-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.84 x6.00l,1.09 | File Name: 0520267982 | 352 pages | Uncorking the Past The Quest for Wine Beer and Other Alcoholic Beverages
||29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.| "Our world is awash in ethanol"|By Chambolle|So says Patrick McGovern, and this book explains how it got that way. McGovern theorizes that organisms great and small, perhaps from the unicellular to non-human primates to humans, are hard wired to crave the products of sugar fermentation, particularly alcohol. This taste for fermented beverages has been a driving force in th||
“McGovern's delving, detailed in this fascinating book, leaves little doubt that humans are born drinkers.”
In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what we now know about how humans created and enjoyed fermented beverages across cultures. Along the ... [PDF.xo84] Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages Rating: 4.93 (434 Votes)
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