drinking 
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SOURCE: New Criterion
1/1/2023
Cheers... to Drinking Songs
by R. Eric Tippin
Drinking songs have been pervasive in human history, but profoundly divided between those framing drink as a divine gift ordered by ritual and those concerned with a party.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/17/2021
The Hard Seltzer Trend Echoes the 19th Century Craze for Lager
"Lagers were introduced by a wave of German immigrants pouring in from Europe. To uninitiated Americans, lager was simply weird. But for Germans-turned-German-Americans, the beer was inseparable from the culture of its consumption."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/16/2021
America Has a Drinking Problem
The shifting social setting of American alcohol consumption, as much as its volume, is cause for concern.
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SOURCE: AP
1/18/20
Prohibition began 100 years ago, and its legacy remains
Featuring Harvard history professor Lisa McGirr, whose 2015 book “The War on Alcohol” examines Prohibition’s political and social repercussions.
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5/7/19
A Bloody Mary Bar and a Barroom Full of Fun
by Bruce Chadwick
The story includes the history of the Bloody Mary, Irish Coffee. Champagne and the Bellini, brunch drinks, told in spirited, light hearted songs presented by a seasoned and a deliciously giddy cast.
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SOURCE: Forbes
2/18/19
How To Drink Like A President
The drinking habits of presidents past and present.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/15/19
The Prohibition-era origins of the modern craft cocktail movement
by Jeffrey Miller
For better or worse, Prohibition changed the way Americans drank, and its cultural impact has never really gone away.
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