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Six Drinks and A Few Empires

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

April 11, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I need to clean off my coffee table. I remembered something from A History of the World in 6 Glasses, but then couldn’t find the book to confirm it. I figured maybe I’d finished it way earlier than I thought and had given it away. But no, it was just buried under stuff on the coffee table. Turns out, I hadn’t quite finished it either. The premise is a history of cultural development around the world as it connects to the general history of the […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, A history of the world in 6 glasses, Beer, beverage history, Coca Cola, coffee, colonialism, food history, Imperialism, Pepsi, rum, Spirits, tea, Tom Standage, wine

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:28 · Genres: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, A history of the world in 6 glasses, Beer, beverage history, Coca Cola, coffee, colonialism, food history, Imperialism, Pepsi, rum, Spirits, tea, Tom Standage, wine ·
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