New York Magazine has a short review of Ian Gately's new book, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol. Worth a browse, if only for the drink-related trivia. For example, did you know:
Aztecs liked fermented sap, but had a legal drinking age (52)
higher than their average life expectancy—although every four years
they’d hold a New Year’s festival called “Drunkenness of Children,” at
which all citizens, including toddlers, were required to drink.
and...
Before Europeans arrived, many Native Americans didn’t even have a word for drunkenness.
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