mvierth 's review for:

And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails by Wayne Curtis

5.0

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Wayne Curtis crafts an honest - and engrossing - look at the oftentimes overlooked and under-appreciated "New World" spirit. He examines the uncomfortable truths that rum was produced by slaves for the wealthy gentry, but also looks at how rum shaped the Americas from the 17th to 20th centuries.