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1000 Remarkable Facts about Booze / by Richard Erdoes ; original art by Richard Erdoes.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TP507 .E73 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcoholic beverages--Popular works.
- Alcoholic beverages.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Distribution:
- New York : Division of W. H. Smith Publishers Inc.,
- Other Title:
- 1,000 Remarkable Facts about Booze
- One thousand remarkable facts about booze
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : The Rutledge Press, 1981.
- Contents:
- The Bitter Brew: The history of beer
- Bring Us in Goode Ale: Beer in Britain
- At the Sign of the Mermaid: Inns, alehouses, and pubs in Merry Old England
- Hops Across the Sea: Beer in the New World
- Duck the Drunkard: Rum and religion in Early America
- The Cradle of Libertie: The role of booze in the Revolutionary War
- Herring Juice, Henbane, and Hemlock: Incidentals in the world of beer
- The King of Small Drink: Cider
- The Blood of the Gods: The history of wine
- The Whores of Venice and the Wines of Vicenza: European wines
- There Grows no Vine as Grows by the Beautiful River: Wine in the Americas
- A Damn'd Small Bottle: Port, Sherry, and Madeira
- The Good Creature of God: The history of hard liquor
- That Hot, Hellish, and Terrible Liquor: Rum
- It is Apt to Stop your Pocket Watch: Whiskey
- Why This Strange Name? The story of the cocktail
- Selling Strong Waters: Early American taverns
- Raw Onions and No Ladies: Drinking in old New York, Chicago, and New Orleans
- No more than Five in One Bed: The Old West saloon
- Senatorial Thirst: Liquor and Washington, D.C.
- Dash the Bowl to the Ground: Temperance, Prohibition, and Repeal.
- Notes:
- "First Printing 1981"
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0831709588 (paper) :
- 9780831709587
- OCLC:
- 7553472
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