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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part41.utf8:160322819:2457
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 02457cam a2200349 i 4500
001 2014015139
003 DLC
005 20140725100306.0
008 140428s2014 ctua 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014015139
020 $a9780762786992 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aTP607.V6$bM37 2014
082 00 $a338.4/76635$223
084 $aCKB088000$aCKB041000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMatus, Victorino.
245 10 $aVodka :$bhow a colorless, odorless, flavorless spirit conquered America /$cVictorino Matus.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aGuilford, Connecticut :$bLyons Press,$c[2014]
300 $axvii, 252 pages :$bcolor illustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"Vodka began as rotgut medicine in Medieval Russia, but this neutral grain alcohol has become our uncontested king of spirits, with over 1,000 brands fighting for market share. But it wasn't always thus. For two centuries, America drank the brown stuff: rum and whiskey. So how did Russia's "little water" unseat our favorite hooch? Vic Matus takes us on an incredible visual journey from vodka's humble American origins in a Depression-era Connecticut factory--using the family recipe of a poor Russian exile named Vladimir Smirnov--through its glamorous rise to fame at the hands of James Bond and Sex and the City to today's craft distillery movement. You'll see in clear, intoxicating detail how hippie culture, women's lib, and an absolutely ingenious Swedish company all played their part, transforming the booze into a status symbol. By 1975, the war had ended: Vodka officially became our favorite spirit. Today, a third of all cocktails contain it, and last year 140 million gallons of the stuff racked up $20 billion in sales. Here is the crisply distilled, bracing story of how entrepreneurs defied the odds and turned medieval medicine into a multibillion-dollar industry. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"How risk-taking entrepreneurs defied the odds and turned medieval medicine into a multibillion-dollar industry"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aVodka$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDistilleries$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDistilling industries$zUnited States.
650 7 $aCOOKING / Beverages / Wine & Spirits.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aCOOKING / History.$2bisacsh