Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Rise and fall of Cadburys (book review)

In nineteenth-century Britain three Quaker-owned chocolate companies dominated the market, Cadbury, Fry, and Rowntree.  The last of the companies to survive, Cadbury, was sold to the American company Kraft in 2010.   A distant relative Deborah Cadbury has written Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers  For a review, see 

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/history-of-chocolatiers-informative-digestible-read-105093219.html

Okrent and Lantzer on the alcohol abuse (book review)

Russ Pulliam, in World Magazine, September 6, 2010, criticized Daniel Okrant, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, for not taking alcohol abuse seriously, as did the local study of Edward Shumaker by Jason Lantzer, Prohibition is Here to Stay.

Taverns in Upper Canada (book review)

Alan McLeod reviews Julia Roberts, In Mixed Company: Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada (UBC Press, 2009), in A Good Beer Blog.  Deals with Ontario until about 1860.

Warner reviews Okrent on American prohibition (book review)

In Giobe & Mail, Jessica Warner reviews Daniel Okrent's Last Call, which she characterizes as stronger on personalities than on plot.  For more, see here.

Oshinsky reviews Last Call (book review)

In the New York Times, May 13, 2010, David Oshinsky reviews David Okrent, Last Call: the Rise and Fall of Prohibition here.

Time magazine reviews book on American prohibition (book review)

In Time, David von Drehle reviews Daniel Okrent, Last CallL The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (Scribner).

Prohibition historian interview (and book review)

In the Barnes & Noble Review, May 5, 2010, here, James Mustich interviews  Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.  Also see the Wall Street Journal review here.

Haydock reviewing Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol (book review)

In Reviews in History, William Haydock reviews here James Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol: A History of the Drink Question in England, who replies here,  Will Haydock wrote his Ph.D. dissertation at Bournemouth University on gender, class and binge drinking.

Mathias on the English brewing industry in perspective (article)

R.G. Wilson, "Peter Mathias's The Brewing Industry in England, 1700-1830 Fifty Years On," Brewery History: The Journal of the Brewery History Society 134 (Spring 2010): 50-56.

Introducing Chinese tea to India (book review)

Adrian Higgins, in Washington Post, March 28, 2010), reviewing Sarah Rose, For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History.  In fact, it was a Scotsman Robert Fortune (1812-1880) who smuggled tea plants out of China to create tea plantations in India.