A History Of The World In Six Glasses By Tom Standage

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Trey Welch
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4-21-14
A History of the World in Six Glasses

A History of the World in Six Glasses written by Tom Standage is an interesting book. It tells about the six drinks: cola, coffee, tea, spirits, wine, and beer. It tells where each drink originated and facts about the drink. It goes in deep detail about how the drink was made, who made the drink, and the ingredients in each drink. There are even short stories of the drinks.

Cola was created by John Pemberton. He was trying to make a cure for headaches and created a tasty soft drink. Cocain was in the original Coca Cola hence the cola in Coca Cola. He put coca leafs with kola nuts and other ingredients. The cola is for kola nuts which the k was changed to a c because it sounded better. Coca Cola’s biggest rival is Pepsi. There was so much rivalry in Russia that coke was disguised as vodka for one of main officers in the Soviet Union. There are many facts about coke in the book.

Coffee was created in the Ethiopian Highlands. Coffee beans were soaked in hot water until they mixed. The arabs were the fi...

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