Victorino Matus

Vodka (eBook, ePUB)

How a Colorless, Odorless, Flavorless Spirit Conquered America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It began as poisonous rotgut in Medieval Russia-Ivan the Terrible liked it, Peter the Great loved it-but this grain alcohol \u201cwithout distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color\u201d has become our uncontested king of spirits. Over a th

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781493012633
• Artikelnr.: 41447439

Autorenporträt

Victorino Matus is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. He has written for the New York Post, Salon.com, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Washingtonian magazine and provided commentary on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN, The Laura Ingraham Show, and the BBC. For a Washington Post piece on the FDA's menu label mandate, he consumed 3,000 calories in a single sitting to prove a point, and his essays have covered the greatest culinary insult to Italian-Americans (The Olive Garden) and the foie gras wars. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife, Kate, and their two children.