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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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A Cup o’ Trivia for Dorks

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

April 18, 2019 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Last year I reviewed Bill Bryson’s delightfully dorky and cheeky At Home, calling it a treasure-trove of trivia. I love books that make you think Oh, that’s why it’s like that! This book is one of those books, and so I really enjoyed it. Whereas Bryson’s book focused on things like wallpaper glue and how dangerous stairs are, this book is all about how culture was shaped by humanity’s beverages of choice: beer, wine, liquor, coffee, tea, Coca-Cola, and water. (I don’t actually know which ones are […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Tom Standage

Halbs's CBR11 Review No:13 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Tom Standage ·
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