A broad comparative claim; whiskey-specific history begins much later.
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The synthesis argues that nearly every known culture with suitable plant resources developed alcoholic beverages, embedding fermentation in ecology, ritual, subsistence, and social life.
Chapter 9, “Alcoholic Beverages: Whence and Whither?,” opening discussion of cultural distribution and fermentation
Chapter 9, “Alcoholic Beverages: Whence and Whither?,” opening discussion of cultural distribution and fermentation
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