Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
Brief Description: Whiskey Women tells the tales of women who created the whiskey industry, from Mesopotamia's first beer brewers and distillers to America's rough-and-tough Prohibition bootleggers. Table of Contents: List...
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Brief Description: Table of Contents: List of Illustrations A Note to Readers Introduction 1. Before Whiskey 2. The First Distillations 3. Tough Irish Women 4. Early Scotch Whisky Women 5. Early American Women 6. The Targeted and Early Marketers 7. Temperance Women 8. Women Moonshiners and Bootleggers in Prohibition 9. Repeal Women Saving Whiskey 10. The Post-Prohibition Legal Battles 11. Post-Prohibition Women Bootleggers 12. Whiskey's Progressive Side 13. The Lady of Laphroaig 14. Modern Women 15. Organizing the Whiskey Effort 16. For Women, by Women Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Biographical Note: Wall Street Journal best-selling author Fred Minnick, once an army journalist in Iraq, writes the award-winning American Whiskey column for Tasting Panel Magazine and Toasting the Hunt column for Covey Rise. A regular contributor to Caviar Affair, Costco Connection, Whisky Magazine, and Whisky Advocate, Minnick has written widely about the spirits industry, traveling around the world covering everything from Limoncello in Sorrento, Italy, to Malbec wine in Mendoza, Argentina. Minnick is a member of the Author's Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Meridith May, publisher of Tasting Panel, calls Minnick "one of the best whiskey storytellers in the business." Review Quotes: "Forget umbrellas in cocktails: Kentucky journalist Fred Minnick shows us how the fairer sex established liquor techniques, culture, and tastes as we know it today."--Damon Brown, Esquire Review Quotes: "[ Whiskey Women] is an important examination of liquor history and offers a number of profiles of trailblazers. Inspiring."--Lew Bryson, the Daily Beast -- (3/19/2020 12:00:00 AM) Review Quotes: "This enjoyable book leaves readers feeling a way they're likely not accustomed to after such a wild, whiskey soaked ride: enlightened."--Jen A. Miller, American Way-- (11/1/2013 12:00:00 AM) Review Quotes: "Fred Minnick gives us an entertaining look at booze's little-known history--including its links to childhood medicine, witchcraft, and the eighteenth-century mail order bride business. This book goes down smooth."--A. J. Jacobs, New York Times best-selling author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible-- (6/10/2013 12:00:00 AM) Review Quotes: "Whether you're a hop-head or a spirit imbiber, Whiskey Women is an entertaining and unexpected look at the role of women in the spirits industry."--Lindsey Kate Reynolds, Southern Foodways Alliance-- (11/7/2013 12:00:00 AM) Review Quotes: "The known history of whiskey changes with Whiskey Women. Fred Minnick has dug deep and come up with gold on the tremendous contribution women have made at each step in the history and evolution of this much-storied beverage. Whiskey Women is a real game changer."--Davin de Kergommeaux, award-winning author of Canadian Whisky: The Portable Expert Review Quotes: "A book that's well worth buying."--Reid Mitenbuler, Drinks-- (11/1/2013 12:00:00 AM) Review Quotes: "Deeply researched and takes an interesting angle (the role of women) as a way to talk about whiskey from a fresh perspective."--Kara Newman, Tipple Sheet-- (10/8/2013 12:00:00 AM) Review Quotes: "This is a great book. Whether you are into whiskey, history or both this deserves a place on your book shelf."--Eric Burke, Bourbon Guy.com-- (11/13/2013 12:00:00 AM) Review Quotes: "[Whiskey Women is] an enjoyable read of thoughtfully-assembled facts and stories illuminating the forgotten women of apothecaries and distilleries past."--Virginia Miller, Liquor.com-- (9/1/2013 12:00:00 AM)
Contributor Bio:Minnick, Fred |
Author: Minnick, Fred
Publisher: Potomac Books
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2020-09-01
BISAC: History|World|General|Cooking|Beverages|Alcoholic- General|Social Science|Women's Studies|Business & Economics|Industries|General|Business & Economics|Women in Business
Weight: 0.78 lbs
ISBN: 9781640123618
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SKU: SP-9781640123618
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