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The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History
The author of "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" lauds the libations that have helped shape our world from the Stone Age to the present day.
Tom Standage urges drinkers to savor the history of their favorite beverages along with the taste.
The author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Walker & Company, June 2005), Standage lauds the libations that have helped shape our world from the Stone Age to the present day.
"The important drinks are still drinks that we enjoy today," said Standage, a technology editor at the London-based magazine the Economist. "They are relics of different historical periods still found in our kitchens."
Take the six-pack, whose contents first fizzed at the dawn of civilization.
The ancient Sumerians, who built advanced city-states in the area of present-day Iraq, began fermenting beer from barley at least 6,000 years ago.
"When people started
