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And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails Paperback – June 5, 2007

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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Broadway Books; Reprint edition (June 5, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307338622
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307338624
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.7 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsyo ho ho...
By Mr. Richard K. Weems on November 13, 2006
Format: Hardcover
I am not so much a sucker for history books as I am a sucker for very focused, almsot gimmicky, history books. Andrew Carr's _Drink: A Social History of America_ is a similarly gimmicky history book that I (pun coming) ate and drank up furiously, and Wayne Curtis has provided an equally capturing read with _And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails_.

This book comes from the level perspective of a connoseur of rum, one who enjoys the depth of the drink, which includes the history of it and the stories behind it. Besides the unsolveable questions of who ever first invented something like the mai tai or who even first made the first batch of the molasses-based spirit, Wayne Curtis delves through a liquor that has been both a savior and a demon for America.

And that is the main point of this book that I truly treasure--for nowadays, rum is considered a very tropical drink, something more at home in a pina colada or a tiki bar than something attached to the dirty farmland of the New World, but Curtis reattaches rum to its colonial identity and heritage, along with solid associations with pirates and seafarers. Rather than being a light, sit-back-on-the-beach drink, Curtis attaches rum back to flogging and piracy and the Revolutionary War. And he does this in each chapter through identifying a particular way of serving rum (the mojito, the flip, or just plain grog) to examine how that drink played its role in history.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn Inspired Pub Crawl
By Hannah Holmes on August 4, 2006
Format: Hardcover
What a pleasure to roam the shipping lanes of history with this wry storyteller! From rum's inception, when an industrial waste (molasses) trysted with the human desire to be wasted, this spirit has led an adventurer's life. In the beginning, in a Caribbean fouled with pirates, sugar and slavery, rum's fermentation was sometimes jump-started with a bolus of manure or an animal carcass. In the end, Guatemala is turning out a 23-year-old rum that tastes like moonlit waves and rolls you for $50. In between, rum enjoyed a bizarre and frequently hilarious career involving the English Navy, an astronomical number of limes, Paul Revere, hot pokers, Newfoundland salt cod, Earnest Hemingway and Fidel Castro, and the geographically-challenged Tiki-bar phenomenon. For a surprising night-cap, rum finds its way back to... well, some place it was before, which I also found surprising. To my even-further surprise, the ten cocktails mentioned in the subtitle really do chart the course of rum's New World bender. The additional cocktails in the appendix have me scribbling a shopping list: Jamaican dark, a Cuban light, and a Barbados medium, seventy-five limes, falernum, Thai basil, a bottle of that $50 Zacapa...
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5.0 out of 5 starsYum
By MW on August 4, 2006
Format: Hardcover
If you, like me, feel your eyelids droop at the words "history book," you, like me, are probably remembering the tepid tomes the nuns made you read in seventh grade. Well, this is NOT your grade-school teacher's history book. This is a lively, slightly drunken account that begins with the madness and mayhem that accompanied the settling of the New World, and from there roams far and wide through many lives and times. And it goes down real smooooth. It's full of stories, stories, stories, and boy, can this guy WRITE. Thank you, Wayne Curtis, for making me love history again.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNow this is rum!
By Justin Gifford on May 27, 2008
Format: Paperback
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails is really all about rum. Should be obvious from the title, but some of these narrow-focus histories are all about social context and compelling commentary. And a Bottle of Rum has these things, but when all is said and done, reading this book is more like drinking a fine rum than reading an ordinary history. Curtis writes with the practiced ease of someone who's thoroughly familiar with his subject, and who doesn't have anything to prove, although at one point it seemed clear to me that he was aiming to undo some of the exaggeration Ian Williams presented in his earlier book. But there is no pervasive attitude of having to prove that rum was one thing or another; Curtis tells it like it is.

For such a short book, the reader never feels like he's missing something; if I only had this book about rum, I think that'd be enough. The title is misleading; Curtis doesn't stop at ten simple cocktails - he gives you the whole run that rum has made from its haziest origins to present upscale rum bars. The author appends a modest list of easy-to-find and enjoyable rums; the list is not comprehensive, but would serve as a good jumping point for those wishing to try different styles. He also includes some of his favorite recipes besides the ten featured in the core chapters. Technically, if you don't consider punch or grog to be a cocktail, it's only six, since Chapter 6 is about Prohibition and features a recipe for the nonalcoholic Prune Water, and the first chapter is simply entitled Kill-Devil. This is not a nitpick; no chapter is out of place here.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsFriends and visitors will steal this book if they get just a few pages...

Second purchase. Loved the read...house guest took it home to finish it...never got it back. This may have been the first book I've owned where I've highlighted sentences and... Read more

Published 19 days ago by D. Jensen
5.0 out of 5 starsCouldn't put it down

This book had a great pace. It is the kind of narrative that brings out the more interesting side if history.

Published 2 months ago by Honeysupreme
5.0 out of 5 starsWhat a fun read!

This book was so much fun to read. Being a rum drinker I loved this history and learned quite a bit about the history of rum that I never knew! Read more

Published 3 months ago by Cassie Sexton-Riggs
5.0 out of 5 starsHistory and a bottle of rum

History should always be told this way, with humor and with an obvious context. Really it's a social history of North America, examined through the context of social gathering... Read more

Published 3 months ago by H. Nguyen
5.0 out of 5 starsTHE book for rum drinkers everywhere.

If you love rum - not just drinking it, but learning its fascinating history and its importance in shaping human culture - you will love this book. Read more

Published 4 months ago by mistercoughy
5.0 out of 5 starsA good history and an entertaining read!

Curtis makes learning history enjoyable! The book explains a LOT about American history that I didn't understand before.

Published 5 months ago by S. Schuengel
5.0 out of 5 starsIf only history class had been this entertaining...

We've started making a tiki themed cocktail mixers kit for our business, which involves using a lot of rum, so it was pretty fascinating to read how rum is woven into the history... Read more

Published 5 months ago by J. Johnson
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent

Excellent book! I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in booze and/or history. Bought a copy for my dad also who doesn't even drink hard liquor and he enjoyed it very... Read more

Published 6 months ago by Eva
5.0 out of 5 starsRaced through this one

Rum and history? Such a good combination that goes together like rum and limes. I really enjoyed all the stories here. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Kurt Biddle
5.0 out of 5 starsAmerican History With a Rum Cocktail

This is a fun stroll through American history with a rum cocktail in your hand. Is it a gimmick? Of course. Did Curtis have to stretch things a bit in places? Of course he did. Read more

Published 8 months ago by B. Tate &#34;Federal Guy&#34;

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