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    And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
    And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
    And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
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    And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails

    Written by Wayne Curtis

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

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    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 ten 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 8, 2016
    ISBN9781515983170
    And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
    Author

    Wayne Curtis

    Wayne Curtis was born in Keenan, New Brunswick, on the banks of the Miramichi River. He was educated at the local schoolhouse and at St. Thomas University. He started writing prose in the late 1960s. His essays have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Outdoor Canada, Fly Fishermen, and the Atlantic Salmon Journal.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent. Great detailed history of rum. I will be most popular regaling these stories at my local gin mill!
    • 4/5
      Great book, easy reading and very informative, in terms of Rum and its relationship to American history.
    • 4/5
      This is how history should be: entertaining, compulsively readable, and enlightening. Curtis uses rum drinks popular in various eras to present a picture of how the world worked at that time, and the cultural reasons behind why that particular drink was popular at that particular time.
    • 4/5
      I do not think that I have a problem but I do have a fascination with the history of drink and the ways it has reflected historical trends and, at times, directed them. This book did not disappoint. The tale of rum is the tale of America. The author follows the ups and downs and, as an added bonus, provides the recipes for the drinks that exemplified various time periods. A nice read and for the fans of rum, a must.
    • 1/5
      I think the guy just wanted to travel around and drink a lot of rum. No argument with that, but little meat to be had.
    • 4/5
      This book was not quite what I thought it would be when I purchased it, but that is okay. It is a quite interesting way of looking at the social history of the Americas, by how people chose to drink the native alcohol. It is a study both in what things were available to them and in the fashion of the day.