Beer : the story of the pint : the history of Britain's most popular drink / Martyn Cornell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornell, Martyn.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beer--Great Britain--History.

Beer.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

viii, 328 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Distribution:

London : A division of Hodder Headline,

Place of Publication:

London : Headline Book Publishing, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: Beer and Britannia

In the beginning: how the search for a pint brought us civilization (maybe)

Celt and Roman: how the legions learned to love British beer

A thousand years of ale: from the Saxons to Dick Whittington

The early years of beer: how hops became hip

Black is beautiful: the eighteenth century

Pale and interesting: the nineteenth century, part one

Make mine mild: the ninteteenth century, part two

Gone for a Burton: the twentieth century, part one

The counter-revolution: the twentieth century, part two. The local brew

Appendix I: A short and entirely wrong history of beer

Appendix II: A world in your beer: an etymology of brewing

Appendix III: How beer is brewed

Appendix IV: Beer word: from abroad cooper to zythophilia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0755311647 (cloth) :

9780755311644

OCLC:

56454707