{"id":38228,"date":"2013-07-10T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/book-review-a-history-of-the-world-in-6-glasses-by-tom-standage.html"},"modified":"2013-07-16T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:34:14","slug":"book-review-a-history-of-the-world-in-6-glasses-by-tom-standage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/book-review-a-history-of-the-world-in-6-glasses-by-tom-standage.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by\u00a0\u00a0Tom Standage …"},"content":{"rendered":"
Book Review: "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by\u00a0\u00a0Tom Standage (2005)<\/b><\/p>\n

An entertaining (and informative) look at how six key beverages reflected (and affected) the civilizations and societies they were involved in. \u00a0I enjoyed it a lot.<\/p><\/div>\n

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a review of A History of the World in 6 Glasses<\/a>
\n A fascinating framing of civilizations around a series of beverages over the millennia: beer (for the Fertile Crescent), wine (Greece and Rome), distilled spirits (Europe and…\n <\/p>\n

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Book Review: "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by\u00a0\u00a0Tom Standage (2005) An entertaining (and informative) look at how six key beverages reflected (and affected) the civilizations and societies they were involved in. \u00a0I enjoyed it a lot. a review of A History of the World in 6 Glasses A fascinating framing of civilizations … Continue reading “Book Review: "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by\u00a0\u00a0Tom Standage …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133267,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/14\/what-would-jesus-drink.html","url_meta":{"origin":38228,"position":0},"title":"What Would Jesus Drink?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Apr-17 6:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"From what we know of Greek and Roman wine, as well as archaeological evidence ... probably not anything that would do well commercially today in the US. 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