false <![CDATA[And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039461m/240908.jpg 240908 2 Like a great barroom raconteur, the author of this engaging treatise regales his audience with piquant opinions, colorful trivia, lush rhetorical turns ("[t]he first taste washes over me and brings to mind the scene in Wizard of Oz in which the black-and-white world suddenly bursts into color") and an exalted, occasionally inflated, sense of liquor's place in the greater scheme of things. A travel writer and contributing editor to Preservation, Curtis follows rum's checkered 400-year career through various incarnations, from the cheap, caustic "kill-devil" that fortified 17th-century pirates (Blackbeard was said to enjoy a glass of flaming rum mixed with gunpowder) to today's mojitos, made from palatable, if bland, mass market rums. His profiles of rum-based cocktails (with an all-important appendix of recipes) serve as starting points for excursions on such topics as slavery in the West Indies, the temperance movement, Ernest Hemingway's epic daiquiri binges and the rise and fall of the tiki bar. Curtis's grander pronouncements ("Rum embodies America's laissez-faire attitude: It is whatever it wants to be")are true only in the groggiest sense, but readers who come along on this charming barhop through cultural history will toast them nonetheless. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 1240752 25 7 2006 And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails total:142|5:32|4:70|3:37|2:1|1:2| 142 555 259 46 240908 1400051673 9781400051670 119 41 And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039461m/240908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240908.And_a_Bottle_of_Rum_A_History_of_the_New_World_in_Ten_Cocktails 4 1 false Tue Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 11 10:27:18 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 10:27:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1251992 0307338622 9780307338624 23 5 And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182270920m/1251992.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1251992.And_a_Bottle_of_Rum_A_History_of_the_New_World_in_Ten_Cocktails 5 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 19:19:34 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 05:23:02 -0700 2007
An excellent history of America through the lens of rum. I found the early colonial chapters to be the most interesting, though the book has impressive factiods all throughout.

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This is a fun romp through the past (almost) four centuries. The author clearly likes the product, but he's got a few of ...more...]]> 240908 1400051673 9781400051670 119 41 And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039461m/240908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240908.And_a_Bottle_of_Rum_A_History_of_the_New_World_in_Ten_Cocktails 5 0 false Tue Nov 25 16:35:27 -0800 2008 Sat Jul 25 08:18:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 240908 1400051673 9781400051670 119 41 And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039461m/240908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240908.And_a_Bottle_of_Rum_A_History_of_the_New_World_in_Ten_Cocktails 3 0 false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 15:09:12 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 13:56:21 -0700 2009
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