Author: Camper English
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Wall Street Journal Review of Doctors and Distillers
Previously the Wall Street Journal had posted an excerpt from my book Doctors and Distillers, so I wasn't expecting this review from wine writer Eric Asimov to come in. Read it here!
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Review of Doctors and Distillers in The American Spectator
A very nice review by Kevin R Kosar in The American Spectator! Walk into the average American grocery store and you will see the spices in one aisle, herbal cures in another, and beer and wine somewhere else. Over-the-counter medicines have their own section, and drugs are locked up behind the pharmacist’s counter. And distilled…
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Patterned Ice is the New Logo Ice
In my first story for Vinepair.com, I wrote about patterned ice – the history and the trend. I'm pretty proud of this one! Read it here.
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The Big Nonalcoholic Spirits Rating, Round Two
In 2021 I hosted a group of bartenders to taste a big batch of nonalcoholic spirits. Read that write-up here. Since then, many new brands have come onto the market or been newly imported into the USA. I lined up 17 expressions and tasted them. Fifteen are pictured below, plus I tried the new nonalcoholic…
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An Easy “Trick” for Removing Clear Ice Cubes from Trays
A lot of times I make clear ice in a Ghost Ice or Clearly Frozen tray and after a day and a half or so, it's plenty of frozen enough. If I let it go for two days or longer it is harder to remove the ice cubes – or rather, harder to separate the…
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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.