460 “To blame advertising”: Pennock.
465 “your office should proceed with caution”: “BAFT out of Hell,” Jacob Sullum, Reason, May 1994.
465 “varying ages, both genders”: “The Conflict Between Public Health Goals and the Temperance Mentality,” Stanton Peele, American Journal of Public Health, 83:803-10, 1993.
466 “reached the age that”: Ben Sherwood, Washington Monthly, 1993.
Consumption trends: “A 10-Year National Trend Study of Alcohol Consumption, 1984-1995: Is the Period of Declining Drinking Over?” Thomas K. Greendfield Ph.D, Lorraine T. Midanik, Ph.D., John Rodgers, MA, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 90, No. 1, January 2000.
Consumption statistics: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/DatabaseResources/QuickFacts/AlcoholConsumption/.
36 SINGLETONS, WINE LAKES, AND THE MOSCOW EXPRESS
Standard drinks for various countries: International Center for Alcohol Policies: www.icap.org.
UK Safe Limits: Sensible Drinking: The Report of an Inter-Departmental Working Group, Department of Health, December 1995.
Alcohol absorption rates: “Alcohol in the Body,” Alex Paton, BMJ, Vol. 330, January 8, 2005.
Safe Limits: “Current Weekly Limits Too Mean,” J. C Duffy, BMJ 1994; 308:270-271.
468 “Those limits were really plucked”: Richard Smith, reported on Sky News, October 20, 2007.
472 “Idler: What’s it like not drinking?”: “Conversations,” Jeffrey Bernard, The Idler, February 8, 1995.
474 “surprisingly, it appears that nearly half”: Alcohol—Can the NHS Afford It? A Report of a Working Party of the Royal College of Physicians, February 2001.
475 “My mum has drunk nothing but a single cream sherry”: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding, Picador, London, 1996, p. 47.
475 “gastro-anomie”: “Consuming Wine in France, the ’Wandering’ Drinker and the Vin-anomie,” Marion Demossier, in Berg, pp. 129-154.
476 “Each bottle of American and Australian wine”: “Wine War,” Business-Week September 3, 2001.
477 “Languedoc-Roussillon is still the biggest wine-producing”: “South of France Wine Brand Gets Green Light,” Chris Mercer, www.beveragedaily.com, July 20, 2006.
478 “We thought we were the king of carrots”: “Too Much of a Good Thing, Peter Gumbel, Time Europe, October 30, 2006, Vol. 168, No. 19.
478 “a ridiculous way to use taxpayers’ money”: “Brussels Tells Winemakers to Face Up to New World Challenge,” David Rennie, Daily Telegraph, June 23, 2006.
Drunk driving, France: “Alcohol is the Main Factor in Excess Traffic Accident Fatalities in France, Michel Reynaud, Patrick Le Breton, Bertrand Gilot, Françoise Vervialle, and Bruno Falissard, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 26(12): 1833-39, December 2002. “France’s Wine Industry Encourages Drinking and Driving,” Associated Press, November 17, 2003.
479 “I drank straight from the bottle”: Moscow Stations, Venedict Yerofeev, Trans. Stephen Mulrine, Faber & Faber, London, 1997, p. 27.
479 “it’s weird, nobody in Russia knows”: Ibid., p. 48.
479 “Dog’s giblets, the drink that puts all others in the shade!”: Ibid., p. 50.
000 Russian drinking crisis: “Kicking the Vodka Habit,” M. Lawrence Schrad, St. Petersburg Times, November 7, 2006.
480 “not a mean drunk”: The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy, Strobe Talbot, Random House, 2002.
37 FIAT LUX
482 “for is not the life of man simply the soul’s sidelong glance?”: Yerofeev, p. 123.
482 9/11 effect: “Prevalence of binge drinking and heavy drinking among adults in the United States, 1990-2004,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, online at: www.cdc.gov/alcohol/datatable.htm.
483 “Frequent heavy drinking”: “Exposure of African American Youth to Alcohol Advertising, 2003 to 2004,” Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, Georgetown University, available at camy.org/research/afam0606/afam0606.pdf.
483 “equipoise and serenity”: “Hip Hop Fridays: How Rap Music Saved Cognac,” John Carreyrou and Christopher Lawton, Wall Street Journal, July 2003.
484 “we can’t forbid people from buying it”: “Bubbles and bling,” Gideon Rachman, The Economist, Summer 2006.
484 “ancient origins”: Beer Institute Advertising and Marketing Code, online at: www.beeresponsible.com/advertising/AdAndMarketingCode. html.
485 Alcohol Advertising and youth: “Alcohol Advertising: What Makes It Attractive to Youth?” Chen, et al., Journal of Health Communication, 10: 553-65, 2005. Online at: resources.prev.org/documents/AlcoholAdvertising_Youth.pdf.
487 Craft brewing statistics: www.beertown.org/craftbrewing/statistics.html.
487 Senate resolution for craft brewing: www.beertown.org/pdf/ACBW_Resolution_753.pdf.
490 “a potential problem with alcohol”: “Substance Abuse in the Deployment Environment,” Iraq War Clinician Guide, R. Gregory Lande, DO FACN, Barbara A. Marin, Ph.D., and Josef I Ruzek, Ph.D., p. 79, XII.
490 “Going to a bar is not an opportunity to get drunk”: “Texas Police Look in Bars for Signs of Drunkenness,” Hugh Aynesworth, Washington Times, March 29, 2006.
491 “Moderate alcohol consumption may have beneficial health”: U.S. dietary guidelines online: www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/html/chapter9.htm.
492 “I have been to AA meetings and they have left me cold.”: A Million Little Pieces, James Frey, Hodder Headline, London, 2004, p. 90.
493 “studies of the relationship between alcohol and stress”: “Does Drinking Reduce Stress?” Michael A. Sayette, Ph.D., Alcohol Research and Health, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 250, 255.
494 “Fat-related deaths dropped 31 percent”: “Wine Extract Keeps Mice Fat and healthy,” Seth Borenstein, Associated Press, 2006.
494 “self-reported drinkers earn 10-14 percent more than abstainers”: “No Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More Money Than Nondrinkers,” Bethany L. Peters, Edward Stringham, Reason Foundation, Policy Brief 44, September 2006.
495 Judgement of Paris: “Judgement of Paris Revisited: California in Pole Position Yet Again,” Jane Anson, Decanter Magazine, October 24, 2006.
496 “I had heard about ‘dry counties’”: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Tucker Max, Penguin Books, London, 2006.
497 “We’re not looking for development . . .”: A State’s Last Dry Town Asserts a Right to Hold On to Tradition, William Yardley, New York Times December 26, 2005.
497 “Here’s to a new tradition in Westerville”: “Dry Capital of the World No More,” Chicago Sun-Times, January 15, 2006.
Wet and dry Kentucky counties: www.abc.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/88403470-8A7E-410C-9816-8B520F7649C8/0/WetDryList.pdf.
Dry counties: David J. Hanson, Ph.D., at www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1140551076.html.
INDEX
absinthe
Abu Nuwas
Adam, J. H.
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Addison, Joseph
Adlum, John
advertising
Africa
African Americans .
See also slavery
agriculture. See also viticulture
Al Razi
Al Zahrawi
Albee, Edward
Albert, Prince Consort
alcoholism
and Alcoholics Anonymous-
and American culture
and anti-slavery
and artists
and gender issues
London on
and Nazi Germany
and the Soviet Union
and withdrawal
alehouses
beverages sold at
Dickens on
and the Enlightenment
and the gin craze
and growth of breweries
laws regulating
in London
sin associated with
Alexander
Alexander the Great
Alfred of Wessex
Allsopp, Samuel
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Notes (Dickens)
American Temperance Society (ATS)
American Temperance Union (ATU)
Amis, Kingsley
Anchor Brewing Company
Anchor Steam Beer
Andros, Edmund
Anglo-Saxon culture
Anheuser, Eberhard
Anheuser-Busch Company
Anti-Saloon League (ASL)
Aphrodite
Arab culture
Arbuthnot, John
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Arizona
Arnald of Villanova
Arthur, T. S.
Asahi Brewing Company
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA)
Astor, Jacob
Athaime the Fierce
Athens, Greece
Atkins, Richard
Attila the Hun
Auerbach, Frank
Augustus Caesar
Australia
Azores
Aztecs
Bacchus (Dionysus)
and Anglo-Saxon culture
artistic depictions
and Christianity
and contemporary society
and Greek culture
and Macedonian culture
and Philip
and Roman culture
and the Romantic movement
Bacon, Francis
Bands of Hope
Barbados
Barbusse, Henri
Baretti, Giuseppe
Barthes, Roland
Baudelaire, Charles
Bavaria
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beat generation
Beaulieu Abbey and Winery
Beecher, Henry Ward
beer. See specific places and styles
Beer Institute Advertising and Marketing Code
Beer Kings
Beer Orders
Behn, Aphra
Belcher, Muriel
Belgium
Belushi, John
Benedictines
beor
Beowulf
Beringer, Jacob
Beringer Estates
Bermudas
Bernard, Jeffrey
Berry, Chuck
The Bible
Bidet, Nicolas
Biggie Smalls (the Notorious B. . G.)
binge drinking-
Bingen, Hildegard von
Bingham, George Caleb
The Black Death
black market. See also bootlegging
Blackbeard
Blackfriars
Blaine, John J.
Blaxland, Gregory
Blaxton, William
Bligh, William
Boel, Fischer
Bolshevik Revolution
Bontekoe, Cornelis
Boorde, Andrew
bootlegging
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Beer Company
Boston Mercury
Boston Tea Party
Boswell, James
boutique wineries
Bowie, James
Brackenridge, Hugh
Bradford, William
Bragg, Braxton
Brannan, Samuel
Braunschweig, Hieronymous
Breckinridge, William .
Breton, André
Brewers Hall
Bridgewater, Connecticut
Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme
Britain. See Great Britain
British and Foreign Temperance Society (BFTS)
Budvar (Budweiser) beer
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF)
Burgundy region and wines
Burns, Robert
Burton, Richard
Busch, Adolphus
Bush, George W.
Busta Rhymes
Byron, George
Cabo Verde Islands
Cabot, John
cacti. See also pulque
Calcutta
California
Bear Flag revolt
beer brewing
and boutique wines
Calistoga
and craft wineries
and the gold rush
and Prohibition
quality of wines
and Spanish rule
and the temperance movement
viticulture in
California Vineyardists Association (CVA)
Caligula
Calk, William
Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)
Canada
Canary Islands
cannabis. See also marijuana
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Cape Cod
Cape Horn
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Town, South Africa
Capone, Alphonse Gabriel “Scarface,”
Capote, Truman
carbonation
Carmina Burana
Carte Vinicole
Carthage
Carthage
Carver, John
Casanova, Giacomo
Castella, Paul de
Castiglione, Balthazar
Catalonia
Catholicism
Cato
Caulfield, Patrick
Cavendish, George
Cecil, William
Celtic civilization
Central America
Chambers, Ephraim
champagne
and Benjamin Franklin
and California wine country
and Dickens
English consumption of
and Prohibition
and rap culture
and the Russian market
and secondary fermentation
and World War
Champagne (region)
Chaplin, Charlie
Charles
Charles
Charles of Anjou
Château Haut-Brion
Château Lafitte
Château Latour
Château Margaux
Château Mouton Rothschild
Château Pétrus
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chesapeake Bay
Chian wines
Chichimeca civilization
Chile
China
Church of England
Churchill, Winston
cider
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cistercians
Civil War
Clappe, Louise A. K. S.
claret-
Clark, Billy J.
Claudius
Clement of Alexandria
Cleopatra of Egypt
Cleveland, Grover
Clinton, William Jefferson
Clowes, William
cocktails
Codrington, Christopher
Coercive Acts
coffee
cognac
Cogswell, Henry .
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, David
Colombia
Colored Temperance Society
Columbus, Christopher
Concepción, Jorge de
Confucianism
Connecticut
Constantine
Constantinople
Constantinus
Cook, James
Coolidge, Calvin
Cooper, Zebulon
Copperfield, David
corn
Corsica
Corso, Gregory
Cotelli, Francesco Procopio dei
Council of Clermont
Cowley, Abraham
Cowley, Malcolm
craft brewing and winemaking
Crago, Thomas S.
crime and violence associated with alcohol
and frontier justice
and the gin craze
and Greek culture
and highwaymen
and New Orleans
and Prohibition
and prostitution
and San Francisco
and settlement of Australia
and World War
Crockett, Davy
Cromwell, Oliver
Cronkite, Walter
Cruikshank, George
Crusades
Cuba
Cuervo, José Antonio
Cullen Bill
Cultural Revolution
cummings, e. e.
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Daedalus
D’Agostini Winery
Dahomey
Dana, Richard Henry
Darius
Dark Ages
Darwin, Erasmus
Daughters of Temperance
David, Jacques-Louis
De Kooning, Willem
De Luca, John A.
De Quincey, Thomas
Dean, James
Decimius Ausonius
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Defense of the Realm Act
Defoe, Daniel
Degas, Edgar
Delaware Indians
delirium tremens
Democratic Party
Demosthenes
denatured alcohol
Deng Xiaoping
Diana, Princess of Wales
Dias, Bartolomeo
Dickens, Charles
Digby, Kenelm
Diocletian
Dionysus. See Bacchus
Disney, Walt
distillation
and the American Revolution
and the War
crisis distillation
in Elizabethan England
and the fir trade
and Franciscan friars
freeze-distillation
and fuel production
and Germany
and the gin craze
and Islam
and the Malt Lecture
Martin Luther on
and Mexico
and moonshine
and New World colonization
and New York
production levels in the U.S.
and quintessence
in Salt Lake City
and taxation
and the Whiskey Rebellion
and wine surpluses
and World War
Distilled Spirits Institute (DSI)
Dominicans
Donck, Adriaen van der
Dongan, Thomas
Douglass, Frederick
Dougnac, Jean-François-Napoléon
Drake, Francis
Drinkers Dictionary (Franklin)
Druids
Duffield, Walter
Duffy Land Act
Dumas, Alexandre
Durrington Walls settlement
Dutch traders and explorers-
East Germany
East India Company
Ecclesiasticus
Eden, Anthony
Edict of Milan
Edward of England
Edward
Egypt