Physiology of Taste (Brillat-Savarin)
Picasso, Pablo
Picts
pilsner beers
pinard wine
piracy
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Place, Francis
plague
Plato
Platt, Hugh
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
plonk
Plymouth Colony
Plzen, Czechoslovakia
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poland
Pollock, Jackson
Polo, Marco
polygamy
polytheism
Pope, Alexander
port
Port Jackson, Australia
Port Royal, Jamaica
porter
Porter, David
Portugal
Pound, Ezra
Prague, Czech Republic
Praxiteles
prehistoric brews
Presbyterians
presidios
Presley, Elvis
Preston Temperance Society
Priapus
Priestley, Joseph
Prince Edward Island
privateers
Procope (coffee shop)
Prohibition
Prohibition Party
Prometheus
prostitution
Protestantism
Protz, Roger
Prussia
public houses (pubs)
and coffee shops
and leisure time
and the Licensing Act
in London
and ordinaries
Orwell’s idea of
and political unrest
and settlement of Australia
sin associated with
and vertical integration
and wartime restrictions
and World War
pulque
Punic War
Puritans
Pushkin, Aleksandr
Putin, Vladimir
Putnam, Isaac
Quakers
quality control
Quartering Act
Quebec
quintessence
Raleigh, Walter
Ramsay, Allan
rap music
Reagan, Ronald
Reformation
refrigeration
Reinheitsgebot
Rémy Martin
Renaissance
Republican Party
resinated wines
restaurants
Restoration
Revere, Paul
Reynière, Alexandre Balthasar Grimnod de la
Rheingau region
Rhode Island
Rhône Valley
rice wine
Richard (Richard the Lionheart)
Ridge Vineyards
Riesling wines
Rimbaud, Arthur
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Roanoke settlement
rock ’n’ roll music
Rodrigues, Joāo
Roẹderer, Louis
Roman Catholic Church
Roman civilization
and the Bacchus cult
and barbarian invasions
and Britain
and Christianity
divided
and entertainment
and gender issues
and Judaism
and the Renaissance
sacked
Senate
Roman civilization (continued )
and viticulture
and warfare
Romantic movement
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rosee, Pasqua
Rothko, Mark
Rothschild, Philippe de
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Royal College of Physicians (RCP)
Royal Navy
Royal Society
RU-
rum
in African rituals
and the American Revolution-
and Barbados
and Benjamin Franklin
and New England
and piracy
and the Royal Navy
and settlement of Australia
and the slave trade
and Washington
and World War
Rum Regiment (New South Wales Corps)
rum-runners
Rush, Benjamin
Russia
Saccharomyces
Safer, Morley
Sahagun, Bernadino de
Saint-Évremond, Marquis de
sakazuki ritual
sake
Salem, Massachusetts
saloons
Salt Lake City, Utah
Samnite civilization
samogon
Samuel Adams Ale
San Francisco, California
San Juan Capistrano, California
Santa Anna, Antonio ópez de
Santa Clara, California
Santa Fe Trail
Santo Domingo
Sapporo Brewing Company
Saracens
Sasanids
Sassoon, Siegfried
Saxons
Schlitz, Joseph
Schlitz Company
Schubert, Max
Schwann, Theodor
Schweppe, Jacob
Scotland
Scott, George
Scythians
Sedgwick, Robert
Sedley, Bill
Selective Service Act
Semele
Senegal
Serra, Junipero
Seven Years’ War
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Percy
Sherry (“sack”)
Shias
Shinto
Shiva
Sicily
Sickert, Walter
Silenus
Skara Brae settlement
slavery
and Dickens
and emancipation
and New Orleans
and the rum trade
and sugar production
and the temperance movement
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
Smart, J. S.
Smith, Adam
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Bob
Smith, David W.
Smith, John
Smith, Joseph
Smith, Moe
Smollett, Tobias
smuggling. See also bootlegging
snake wine
Snoop Dogg
Socrates
sommelier
Sommer, Richard
Sonoma, California
Sons of Jonadab
Sons of Liberty
Sons of Temperance
Sophocles
Southey, Robert
Soviet Union
Spain
and the American Revolution
and coffee
and conquest of Mesoamerica-
and the French wine market
and international trade
and Islam
and maritime trade
New World colonies
and Peruvian wine trade
U.S. treaties with
speakeasies
spice trade
Spotswood, Alexander
Spurrier, Stephen
Squire, James
Sri Lanka
St. Aiden
St. Arnold
St. Arnuld
St. Augustine of Canterbury
St. Benedict of Nursia
St. Bernard of Citeaux
St. Brigit
St. Clement of Alexandria
St. Columban
St. Dionysus
St. Gildas
St. Goericus
St. Huberts wine
St. Jerome
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis Reporter
St. Patrick
St. Philip Episcopal Church
St. Valentin
e’s Day Massacre
Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars
Stamp Act
steam beer
steam power
Steele, Richard
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strudwick, Thomas
Stuart, Moses
students and drinking
Stuyvesant, Peter
Sugar Act
sugarcane
sulphur
Sumeria
Sunday closing laws
Sunnis
Swift, Jonathan
Sydney, Australia-
Sydney Town, California
symposia
Syria
Tacitus
Taittinger, François
The Tanakh
Taos Lightning
taverns
beverages sold at
in colonial New England
and Dutch settlers
and the gin craze
in Greek culture
and Islam
in London
in New Orleans
in New York
taverns (continued)
in Pompeii
and racial restrictions
and settlement of Australia
and student riots
taxation
and American brewing industry
and the American Revolution
and the War
divided opinions on
and the gin craze
and Islam
levies on brewers
and the Licensing Act
and Perestroika
and the Permissive Act
and the Romanization of Britain
sin taxes
tea duties
and the Whiskey Rebellion
and World War
Tchelistcheff, Andre
tea-
Teach, Edward
teetotalism
temperance movement
and anti-slavery
and California
and Carry A. Nation
and the War
early activists and organizations
and film
growth of
neotemperance
politicization of
and religious sermons
and the Romantic movement
temperance literature
temperance restaurants
women’s involvement in
Templars of Honor and Temperance
Tennessee
teratogens
Texas
Thatcher, Margaret
Theodosius
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Jerry
Thompson, Hunter S.
Thrace
Thurmond, Strom
tobacco
as alcohol additive
and American colonization
and the Jamestown settlement
and Virginia
Tories
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri
Townshend, Charles
Townshend Acts
Transcaucasia
transubstantiation
Treaty of Rome
Treaty of Versailles
Trimalchio
Trotter, Thomas
Tsing Tao beer
Tucker, Josiah
Turner, Richard
Tutankhamen
Twain, Mark
Twentieth Amendment
Twenty-first Amendment
United Kingdom Alliance (UKA)
United States. See also specific topics relating to the U.S. such as temperance movement
Civil War
consumption rates
and New Orleans
and post-war reconstruction
and the Revolutionary War
and the Whiskey Rebellion
and World War
and World War
United States Brewers Association (USBA)
Urquell Brewery
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Congress
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Dietary Guidelines
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
U.S. Supreme Court
Utah
Valencia, Spain
Valentinian
Valerian
Vallejo, Mariano Guadeloupe
Valley Tan whiskey
Van Buren, Martin
Vandals
Vaudreuil, Pierre de Rigaud
Vaughn, Mary .
Venezuela
Venice
Verlaine, Paul
vessels for drinking
Brage-beaker
Chinese pottery
drinking horns
Egyptian pottery
in feudal Europe
goat skins
Greek amphorae
Greek wine cups
The Infant (punchbowl)
Liberty Bowl
Pompeiian cucumas
Vichy regime
Victoria, Australia
Vietnam War
Vigilance Committee
Vignes, Jean-Louis
Vikings
Vincent, Gene
Virgil
Virginia
Virginia Company
Visigoths
viticulture
and Australia
and California
and England
and France
and Germany
and Jefferson
and Judaism
and Mexico
and phylloxera vastatrix
and post-war reconstruction
and prehistoric brews
and the Roman Empire
and soil quality
and South Africa
and World War
vodka
Volstead, Andrew Joseph
Volstead Act
Voroshilov, Kliment
Vortigen
Wagner, Penny
Walpole, Robert
Walters, Barbara
Washington, George
Washington (state)
Washington Temperance Society
water quality
and American colonization
bottled water
in England
and the Mississippi River
municipal water supplies
and New World colonization
and post-war reconstruction-
waterborne illnesses
wine as additive
Weihenstephan monastery
Wente, Karl
Wesley, John
West India Company
West Indies
Wheeler, Wayne
Whigs
Whiskey Rebellion
whisky (whiskey)
contrasted with wine
excise tax on
and the gold rush
and Harding
and Hong Kong culture
and Japanese culture
and the Lewis and Clark expedition
Malt Lecture (Livesey)
media depictions of
and New York
production levels in the U.S.
and Texas independence
and World War
Whitbread, Samuel
Whitman, Walt
Wickersham Commission
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Billy
Wilkes, John
Willard, Frances E.
William of Orange
Williams, Tennessee
Wilmot, John
Wilson, Bill
Wilson, Thomas
Wilson, Woodrow
Winchell, Walter
wine. See specific places and styles
Winkler, Albert
Winthrop, John
Wolff, Tobias
Wolofs
Wom
an’s New York State Temperance Society (WNYSTS)
Woman’s Temperance Crusade
women and alcohol. See also specific organizations
and absinthe
and Australia
and binge drinking
and brewing
and Chinese culture
and Christianity
and Elizabethan England
and female suffrage movement
and the gin craze
and the gold rush
and Japanese culture
and mead halls
and merchandising
and Prohibition
and recommended consumption levels
and restaurants
and Roman culture
and saloons
and tea rituals
and wine consumption
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR)
Wordsworth, William
World Health Organization (WHO)
World War
World War
wormwood. See also absinthe
Yale Club
Yale University
yeast
Yeltsin, Boris
Yngling sagas
Young, Brigham
Yount, George
Yucatán Peninsula
Yule celebrations
Zen Buddhism
Zeus
Zola, Émile
Zollverein
Zoser
1
Aspiring Grecian politicians were warned off drunkenness: Pittacus, writing to Periander of Priene, cautioned him to steer clear of drink “so that it may not be discovered what sort of a person you really are, and that you are not what you pretend to be.”
2
The only defense against the baneful influence of the dog star was to drink: Alcaeus, the Mitylenaean poet, says:
Steep your heart in rosy wine, for see, the dog star is in view;
Lest by heat and thirst oppressed you should the season’s fury rue.
3
Some of the venues could flood their arenas.
4
Its modern English equivalent is Dennis.
5
According to a sixteenth-century English translation of the rule, a hemina equated to one pint.
6
Geber’s habit of writing in symbolic code, incomprehensible to the casual reader, is the source of our word gibberish.
7
A popular English translation (1540, Lord Berners) of the adventures of Sir Huoun gave Shakespeare the inspiration for his Midsummer Night’s Dream.
8
About the same as that of the Egyptian laborers who build the pyramids at Giza.
9
One-half gallon.
10
The time it takes to say an Our Father.
11
The first Englishman to observe this procedure thought it so much humbug: “Before the master of the house begins to drink, he will proffer the cup to every one of his guests, making show to have them to begin though it be far from his intention.”
12
Hence our word nepotism.
13
The figure in 2004 was one per every 529. 14 Boorde was quite a character—an Oxford scholar, a former monk, a spy who traveled all over Europe, the man who introduced rhubarb to England, whose written work included a guidebook for travelers to the continent and a treatise on beards. Interestingly, as well as condemning beer as downright dangerous to his fellow countrymen, he also advised them to steer clear of Adam’s ale, for “water is not wholesome sole by itself for an Englishman.”
14
Now divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
15
Morton was a hard man to keep down. He returned to America, was deported again, spent time in Exeter jail, and composed the New English Canaan (1637), a vituperative account of the New World colonists.