
And a Bottle of Rum
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
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Narrated by:
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Mike Chamberlain
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By:
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Wayne Curtis
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of 10 cocktails, Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.
Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies - where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution - to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America, to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba, and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against "demon rum", Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, and today's bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter's Punch.
Awash with local color and wry humor, And a Bottle of Rum is an affectionate toast to this most American of liquors, a chameleon spirit that has been constantly reinvented over the centuries by tavern keepers, bootleggers, lounge lizards, and marketing gurus.
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Informative, but lots of tangents
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a Light and Enjoyable flow
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Beautifully written book about rum
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So much information I listened to it twice already
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Really interesting!
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Get the history and a tune up
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While I enjoy spirits, I am not a rum drinker. This book is more a history of the spirit, with each chapter nicely separated out as a period in the history of rum.
Each chapter is named after a run drink that was popular at the time. The author incorporates that drink into the telling about that period in history.
The author’s writing style is very engaging. Even though there are a lot of facts, it never drags on like some history books do.
Get the book. You will not regret it.
A nice intersection of history and rum
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Extraordinary
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An American view of rum and it's history
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Incredibly entertaining
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