The ability to access new luxury goods was a sign of status. There are many indulgent foods...
Alcohol
Many of us love a tipple. Alcohol lowers our inhibitions and gives us a false sense of...
Setting up a bar sink is essential for an efficient working station. Otherwise, you will have to...
People drank for many different reasons and these reasons ranged across social class, gender, and region. Introduction...
Selling alcohol in late Victorian Britain required a degree of cunning, ingenuity, and a leap of imagination....
Americans tend to prefer beers that have corn or rice ‘adjuncts,’ or fillers. RetroClipArt/Shutterstock.com The unique role of...
Consumption of one or other form of intoxicating substances has been present throughout the history of the...
Ancient amphorae / Southampton University, Creative Commons It has been proposed that different drinking norms developed in northern...
London was already a major beer producer in the sixteenth century. London was already a major beer...
Alcohol played a central role in early modern life, occupying much of the time of both law...
Detail of a relief of the eastern stairs of the Apadana at Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid), Iran /...
Impression of a Sumerian cylinder seal from the Early Dynastic IIIa period (ca. 2600 BC). Persons drinking...
A lithograph, “The Drunkard’s Progress”, by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, c.1846 / Wikimedia Commons What caused the temperance movement...
A cellar worker steams American oak wine barrels before their use at Silver Oak Cellars in Oakville,...
Caravaggio’s 1595 masterpiece Bacchus. Wikimedia Commons Wine, more than other beverage, is intimately connected to celebration and worship. By...
Deep inside Monte Kronio, hot, humid and sulfurous caves held an ancient secret. Giuseppe Savino, La Venta Esplorazioni...
Pouring Saison, a classic Belgian farmhouse-style ale, at Allagash Brewing in Portland, Maine. Allagash Brewing, CC BY By...
By Dr. K. Austin Kerr Professor Emeritus of American History The Ohio State University Why Prohibition? Why...
Enamelled Jacobite portrait glass. / Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Our Georgian and Victorian ancestors probably celebrated Christmas...
Photo by stevepb, Pixabay, Creative Commons By Megan Ray Nichols / 12.14.2017 Mention the word keg, and...
Making Irish coffee / Photo by Frettie, Wikimedia Commons The cavemen were drunk and revolutionaries were caffeinated....
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville, 2016 / Courtesy Ste. Michelle Wine Estates By Peter Blecha / 09.04.2017 Introduction Chateau...
Pious drinking. Walter Dendy Sadler via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Foley / 11.17.2017 Associate Professor of Patristics...
At the Prague carnival. Photo by Matej Divizna/Getty By Dr. Robert Dudley / 12.19.2016 Professor of Integrative Biology...