McGovern, Patrick E. Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
The book opens by locating alcohol within a much longer chemical and biological history than human beverage making, using that deep-time frame to explain why alcohol is a recurring human material.
Patrick E. McGovern, Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), Chapter 1, “Homo Imbibens: I Drink, Therefore I Am,” opening discussion and “Creating a Ferment”.
Patrick E. McGovern, Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), Chapter 1, “Homo Imbibens: I Drink, Therefore I Am,” opening discussion and “Creating a Ferment”.
Chapter 1, “Homo Imbibens: I Drink, Therefore I Am,” opening discussion and “Creating a Ferment”
McGovern, Uncorking the Past, Chapter 1, “Homo Imbibens: I Drink, Therefore I Am,” opening discussion and “Creating a Ferment”.
Chapter 1, “Homo Imbibens: I Drink, Therefore I Am,” opening discussion and “Creating a Ferment”
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The book opens by locating alcohol within a much longer chemical and biological history than human beverage making, using that deep-time frame to explain why alcohol is a recurring human material.
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