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The history of alcohol: everything you wanted to know

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A Christmas Cocktail Recipe From Anna Woolie

If you could drink any alcoholic beverage from history, what would you choose? I'd be very intrigued to taste the early cocktails that started to be made in 19th century America. And there's been some interesting work on these. So kind of the early transatlantic cocktails would be very interesting as I'm someone who likes a cocktail. That was Professor Phil Witherington from the University of Sheffield. If you'd like to find out more about the history of food as well as drink, the last Christmas I was joined by the culinary historian Dr Annie Gray for a series on Christmas feasts through the ages. Just search for Christmas feasts to bring that up.

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