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“And a Bottle of Rum is a fascinating tale of cultural metamorphosis, tracing rum’s remarkable journey from colonial rotgut to SoHo cocktail. A book with as many revelations about American history as about this archetypally American drink.” —Jack Turner, author of Spice: The History of a Temptation
“History never tasted so good. What Herbert Asbury did for the gangs of New York, Wayne Curtis does for rum: The profiteers who traded it, the pirates who raided it, the underclass who guzzled it, the mixologists who exalted it, and the corporations who homogenized it—Curtis tells their tale with style and sweep in a tour de force of social history, urban anthropology, and cocktail ‘alcohology.’ A delight from first sip to last.” —Jeff Berry, author of Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log, Intoxica!, and Taboo Table
“And a Bottle of Rum reveals the facts behind rum’s colorful history while telling a great story of rebellion and rumbustion!” —Dale DeGroff, author of The Craft of the Cocktail
“Wayne Curtis breaks fascinating new ground in this very palatable history of the world-through-rum-colored glasses. The writing shows what makes modern journalism so great: clean, succinct, inclusive smoothness—not unlike great rum—and Curtis is a virtuoso at it.” —Ted “Dr. Cocktail” Haigh, author of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails
From the Hardcover edition.
“And a Bottle of Rum is a fascinating tale of cultural metamorphosis, tracing rum’s remarkable journey from colonial rotgut to SoHo cocktail. A book with as many revelations about American history as about this archetypally American drink.” —Jack Turner, author of Spice: The History of a Temptation
“History never tasted so good. What Herbert Asbury did for the gangs of New York, Wayne Curtis does for rum: The profiteers who traded it, the pirates who raided it, the underclass who guzzled it, the mixologists who exalted it, and the corporations who homogenized it—Curtis tells their tale with style and sweep in a tour de force of social history, urban anthropology, and cocktail ‘alcohology.’ A delight from first sip to last.” —Jeff Berry, author of Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log, Intoxica!, and Taboo Table
“And a Bottle of Rum reveals the facts behind rum’s colorful history while telling a great story of rebellion and rumbustion!” —Dale DeGroff, author of The Craft of the Cocktail
“Wayne Curtis breaks fascinating new ground in this very palatable history of the world-through-rum-colored glasses. The writing shows what makes modern journalism so great: clean, succinct, inclusive smoothness—not unlike great rum—and Curtis is a virtuoso at it.” —Ted “Dr. Cocktail” Haigh, author of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails
From the Hardcover edition.
Kurzbeschreibung
One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails—from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of modern club hoppers—Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.
Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies, where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution, to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America, to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba, and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against “demon rum,” Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, and today’s bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter’s Punch. In an age of microbrewed beer and single-malt whiskeys, rum—once the swill of the common man—has found its way into the tasting rooms of the most discriminating drinkers.
Awash with local color and wry humor, And a Bottle of Rum is an affectionate toast to this most American of liquors, a chameleon spirit that has been constantly reinvented over the centuries by tavern keepers, bootleggers, lounge lizards, and marketing gurus. Complete with cocktail recipes for would-be epicurean time-travelers, this is history at its most intoxicating.
From the Hardcover edition.
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails—from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of modern club hoppers—Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.
Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies, where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution, to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America, to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba, and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against “demon rum,” Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, and today’s bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter’s Punch. In an age of microbrewed beer and single-malt whiskeys, rum—once the swill of the common man—has found its way into the tasting rooms of the most discriminating drinkers.
Awash with local color and wry humor, And a Bottle of Rum is an affectionate toast to this most American of liquors, a chameleon spirit that has been constantly reinvented over the centuries by tavern keepers, bootleggers, lounge lizards, and marketing gurus. Complete with cocktail recipes for would-be epicurean time-travelers, this is history at its most intoxicating.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Das Buch stand lange ungelesen im Regal - zu lange! Doch dann, endlich, habe ich zu blättern und zu lesen begonnen, und von der ersten Seite an hat es mich gefesselt!
Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte des Rums anhand mehrerer typischer Drinks in 10 Kapiteln - zugleich ist es aber auch eine Geschichte der Karibik und der Vereinigten Staaten. "Harte" historische Fakten mischt der Journalist und Autor Wayne Curtis elegant und in ansprechendem Schreibstil mit Anekdoten und Kuriositäten. Obwohl im engeren Sinn kein "wissenschaftliches" Buch, wirken die Fakten doch sauber recherchiert. Wir erfahren viel über Ursprung und Herstellung der beliebten Spirituose, über wirtschaftliche Verflechtungen und die kleine und die große Politik. Die Sprache ist allerdings eher salopp, das macht zwar Spaß zu lesen, aber wer kein Muttersprachler ist, wird ein Wörterbuch, das auch Begriffe der Umgangssprache im American English enthält, zu schätzen wissen.
Chapter 1 - Kill Devil (Ursprung des karibischen Rums im 17. Jahrhundert)
Chapter 2 - Grog (von Piraten und ihren Beutezügen)
Chapter 3 - Flip (Rum und die Kolonisation der Vereinigten Staaten)
Chapter 4 - Medford Rum (Rum und der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg)
Chapter 5 - Planter's Punch (Melasse, Rum und Sklavenhandel)
Chapter 6 - Demon Rum (die Temperance-Bewegung bis zur Prohibition)
Chapter 7 - Daiquiri (Kuba, Hemingway und Bacardi)
Chapter 8 - Rum and Coca-Cola (die USA nach dem 2. Weltkrieg)
Chapter 9 - Mai Tai (der "Tiki"-Style)
Chapter 10 - Mojito (Bacardi, Havanna Club und ein Rum-Sammler)
Anhang: ca. 30 weitere historische Rum-Rezepte
Literaturverzeichnis
Dies ist ein Buch für Rum-Liebhaber und Geschichts- und Geschichtenfreunde! Nicht lange liegen lassen, wenn man es hat!
Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte des Rums anhand mehrerer typischer Drinks in 10 Kapiteln - zugleich ist es aber auch eine Geschichte der Karibik und der Vereinigten Staaten. "Harte" historische Fakten mischt der Journalist und Autor Wayne Curtis elegant und in ansprechendem Schreibstil mit Anekdoten und Kuriositäten. Obwohl im engeren Sinn kein "wissenschaftliches" Buch, wirken die Fakten doch sauber recherchiert. Wir erfahren viel über Ursprung und Herstellung der beliebten Spirituose, über wirtschaftliche Verflechtungen und die kleine und die große Politik. Die Sprache ist allerdings eher salopp, das macht zwar Spaß zu lesen, aber wer kein Muttersprachler ist, wird ein Wörterbuch, das auch Begriffe der Umgangssprache im American English enthält, zu schätzen wissen.
Chapter 1 - Kill Devil (Ursprung des karibischen Rums im 17. Jahrhundert)
Chapter 2 - Grog (von Piraten und ihren Beutezügen)
Chapter 3 - Flip (Rum und die Kolonisation der Vereinigten Staaten)
Chapter 4 - Medford Rum (Rum und der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg)
Chapter 5 - Planter's Punch (Melasse, Rum und Sklavenhandel)
Chapter 6 - Demon Rum (die Temperance-Bewegung bis zur Prohibition)
Chapter 7 - Daiquiri (Kuba, Hemingway und Bacardi)
Chapter 8 - Rum and Coca-Cola (die USA nach dem 2. Weltkrieg)
Chapter 9 - Mai Tai (der "Tiki"-Style)
Chapter 10 - Mojito (Bacardi, Havanna Club und ein Rum-Sammler)
Anhang: ca. 30 weitere historische Rum-Rezepte
Literaturverzeichnis
Dies ist ein Buch für Rum-Liebhaber und Geschichts- und Geschichtenfreunde! Nicht lange liegen lassen, wenn man es hat!
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Allerdings sollte man der Sprache mehr als mächtig sein und nicht erwarten unentwegt nur auf spannendes zu treffen. Wo viel steht ist auch viel, dass einen eher kalt lässt. Weiterblättern und sich am nächsten Kapitel erfreuen dass einen dann wieder mehr in den Bann zieht. Ich tat mir rein sprachlich aber doch ab und an schwer. Für meine etwasmangelhaften Kenntnisse kann aber der Autor nichts. Der arbeitet wirklich ohne Fehl und Tsdel. Schön das Gefühl zu haben dass der Autor zu 100% weiss wovon er da schreibt. Toll recherchiert, wirklich für Fans empfehlenswert - ein geistreiches Buch für einen geistreichen Stoff aus dem - nich nur - die Cocktails sind. Ich hätte mich über noch mehr Illustrationen gefreut - das Thema gibt irre viel her in Wort UND Bild. Andere Bücher schaffen da noch mehr Stimmungsmache. Egal. Fast perfekt - wenn man sich denn heran wagt.
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14. November 2006
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I am not so much a sucker for history books as I am a sucker for very focused, almsot gimmicky, history books. Andrew Carr's _Drink: A Social History of America_ is a similarly gimmicky history book that I (pun coming) ate and drank up furiously, and Wayne Curtis has provided an equally capturing read with _And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails_.
This book comes from the level perspective of a connoseur of rum, one who enjoys the depth of the drink, which includes the history of it and the stories behind it. Besides the unsolveable questions of who ever first invented something like the mai tai or who even first made the first batch of the molasses-based spirit, Wayne Curtis delves through a liquor that has been both a savior and a demon for America.
And that is the main point of this book that I truly treasure--for nowadays, rum is considered a very tropical drink, something more at home in a pina colada or a tiki bar than something attached to the dirty farmland of the New World, but Curtis reattaches rum to its colonial identity and heritage, along with solid associations with pirates and seafarers. Rather than being a light, sit-back-on-the-beach drink, Curtis attaches rum back to flogging and piracy and the Revolutionary War. And he does this in each chapter through identifying a particular way of serving rum (the mojito, the flip, or just plain grog) to examine how that drink played its role in history. Though rum is a liquor that can take many, many forms, Curtis looks at how all spirits were lumped into the term 'rum' for Prohibition, and also how rum came into grace, then fell out of it, and almost seemed to fall off the face of the Earth altogether, only to soar back, though in a new way that Curtis bashes thoroughly in the final chapter, which examines the industrialization of rum.
This is a very fascinating and readable book that is filled with humor and appropiate snobbery for a liquor that may not have the high rep of things like cognac and scotch, but certainly has the street cred to kick any other liquor's rear.
This book comes from the level perspective of a connoseur of rum, one who enjoys the depth of the drink, which includes the history of it and the stories behind it. Besides the unsolveable questions of who ever first invented something like the mai tai or who even first made the first batch of the molasses-based spirit, Wayne Curtis delves through a liquor that has been both a savior and a demon for America.
And that is the main point of this book that I truly treasure--for nowadays, rum is considered a very tropical drink, something more at home in a pina colada or a tiki bar than something attached to the dirty farmland of the New World, but Curtis reattaches rum to its colonial identity and heritage, along with solid associations with pirates and seafarers. Rather than being a light, sit-back-on-the-beach drink, Curtis attaches rum back to flogging and piracy and the Revolutionary War. And he does this in each chapter through identifying a particular way of serving rum (the mojito, the flip, or just plain grog) to examine how that drink played its role in history. Though rum is a liquor that can take many, many forms, Curtis looks at how all spirits were lumped into the term 'rum' for Prohibition, and also how rum came into grace, then fell out of it, and almost seemed to fall off the face of the Earth altogether, only to soar back, though in a new way that Curtis bashes thoroughly in the final chapter, which examines the industrialization of rum.
This is a very fascinating and readable book that is filled with humor and appropiate snobbery for a liquor that may not have the high rep of things like cognac and scotch, but certainly has the street cred to kick any other liquor's rear.
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Yum
4. August 2006
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If you, like me, feel your eyelids droop at the words "history book," you, like me, are probably remembering the tepid tomes the nuns made you read in seventh grade. Well, this is NOT your grade-school teacher's history book. This is a lively, slightly drunken account that begins with the madness and mayhem that accompanied the settling of the New World, and from there roams far and wide through many lives and times. And it goes down real smooooth. It's full of stories, stories, stories, and boy, can this guy WRITE. Thank you, Wayne Curtis, for making me love history again.
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An Inspired Pub Crawl
4. August 2006
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What a pleasure to roam the shipping lanes of history with this wry storyteller! From rum's inception, when an industrial waste (molasses) trysted with the human desire to be wasted, this spirit has led an adventurer's life. In the beginning, in a Caribbean fouled with pirates, sugar and slavery, rum's fermentation was sometimes jump-started with a bolus of manure or an animal carcass. In the end, Guatemala is turning out a 23-year-old rum that tastes like moonlit waves and rolls you for $50. In between, rum enjoyed a bizarre and frequently hilarious career involving the English Navy, an astronomical number of limes, Paul Revere, hot pokers, Newfoundland salt cod, Earnest Hemingway and Fidel Castro, and the geographically-challenged Tiki-bar phenomenon. For a surprising night-cap, rum finds its way back to... well, some place it was before, which I also found surprising. To my even-further surprise, the ten cocktails mentioned in the subtitle really do chart the course of rum's New World bender. The additional cocktails in the appendix have me scribbling a shopping list: Jamaican dark, a Cuban light, and a Barbados medium, seventy-five limes, falernum, Thai basil, a bottle of that $50 Zacapa...
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