Zusatztext This riveting little pocket-sized book about gin provides excellent rumination for the festive season. Informationen zum Autor Shonna Milliken Humphrey is the author of Show Me Good Land (2011) and Dirt Roads and Diner Pie (2016). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Salon . She played a key role in the posthumous publication of The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda written by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo, and for two years, she was a food writer for The Maine Sunday Telegram . www.shonnahumphrey.com Klappentext Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia. Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent, early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin's base was a path to immortality-and also Satan's tool. In more recent times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an abortifacient. From its harshest proto-gin distillation days to the current smooth craft models, gin plays a powerful cultural role in film, music, and literature-one that is arguably older, broader, and more complex than any other spirit. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic .Explores the power of gin as it exists in solid, liquid, and ethereal formâin ink, on screen, and in a bottleâvia its history, political impact, and cultural representations. Zusammenfassung Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia. Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent, early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin's base was a path to immortalityand also Satan's tool. In more recent times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an abortifacient. From its harshest proto-gin distillation days to the current smooth craft models, gin plays a powerful cultural role in film, music, and literatureone that is arguably older, broader, and more complex than any other spirit. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Gin and Juice: An Introduction 2. A Potent Three-Letter Etymology 3. The Basics: Juniper 4. The Basics: Distillation 5. Class and Type 6. The Great Style Divide 7. Dutch Courage and the British Navy 8. The British Gin Craze 9. Ice Harvest, American Style 10. Gincidents 11. Portraiture and Visuals 12. Lyrics and Verse 13. Film and Literature 14. Ginaissance Acknowledgments Index ...

Vorwort
Explores the power of gin as it exists in solid, liquid, and ethereal formin ink, on screen, and in a bottlevia its history, political impact, and cultural representations.

Autorentext
Shonna Milliken Humphrey is the author of Show Me Good Land (2011) and Dirt Roads and Diner Pie (2016). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Salon. She played a key role in the posthumous publication of The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda written by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo, and for two years, she was a food writer for The Maine Sunday Telegram. www.shonnahumphrey.com

Klappentext

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia. Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent, early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin's base was a path to immortality-and also Satan's tool. In more recent times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an abortifacient. From its harshest proto-gin distillation days to the current smooth craft models, gin plays a powerful cultural role in film, music, and literature-one that is arguably older, broader, and more complex than any other spirit. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Inhalt

1. Gin and Juice: An Introduction
   
   2. A Potent Three-Letter Etymology
   3. The Basics: Juniper
   4. The Basics: Distillation
   5. Class and Type
   6. The Great Style Divide
   7. Dutch Courage and the British Navy
   8. The British Gin Craze
   9. Ice Harvest, American Style
   10. Gincidents
   11. Portraiture and Visuals
   12. Lyrics and Verse
   13. Film and Literature
   14. Ginaissance
       Acknowledgments
       Index