Month: September 2022
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Aqua Vitae Opinions from a 1540 Book on Metallurgy
I read about a reference to distillation in the Pirotechnia, so I decided to look up the book. According to Wikipedia, "De la Pirotechnia is considered to be one of the first printed books on metallurgy to have been published in Europe. It was written in Italian and first published in Venice in 1540.…
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A Nice Review on DrinkHacker of Doctors and Distillers
DrinkHacker posted a nice review of Doctors and Distillers. English does an excellent job diving deep into the symbiotic history between medicine and alcohol, but he skillfully avoids the dry, academic presentation of information with a light touch and informal accessibility usually absent in alcohol history books. Reviewer Rob Theakston gives it an "A" or…
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Doctors and Distillers Named One of the Best Medical Books of 2022
According to the What's Health Got to Do With It? podcast on WJCT news, Doctors and Distillers is one of the best medical books of 2022. Listen to the podcast in which I'm a guest in the second segment.
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The Cool New Ice Trend In London, 1873
I was searching for some information on Wenham Lake Ice and stumbled across this article in The Food Journal, published in London in 1873. Wenham is a lake in Massachusetts and its ice was famous and exported to London (I have some interesting info about that in Doctors and Distillers), but by the time this…
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Five Summer 2022 Drink Books Reviewed
I reviewed 5 books for Alcohol Professor. The reviews are here. I've also pasted the post below, which originally appeared on AlcoholProfessor.com. The books are (links are to Amazon) The Bartender's Cure The Little Book of Whiskey Cocktails Cocktails, A Still Life Cocktails of Asia Black Mixcellence Boozy Book Reviews: Late Summer 2022New…