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Commercial culture



  • 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."



  • As the World Churns

    by Peter Manseau

    The story behind 'Mia,' the Native American woman who was the face on Land O'Lakes butter packaging for almost a century.