McGovern, Patrick E. Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
The synthesis argues that nearly every known culture with suitable plant resources developed alcoholic beverages, embedding fermentation in ecology, ritual, subsistence, and social life.
Patrick E. McGovern, Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), Chapter 9, “Alcoholic Beverages: Whence and Whither?,” opening discussion of cultural distribution and fermentation.
Patrick E. McGovern, Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 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
McGovern, Uncorking the Past, 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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The synthesis argues that nearly every known culture with suitable plant resources developed alcoholic beverages, embedding fermentation in ecology, ritual, subsistence, and social life.
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