[Rhodes22-list] Another goody for Rummy

[Slim]

And here's another:

There's a river here in southern MN named the Rum River.  Its good for
canoeing, inner tubing and trout fishing.  But there's a guy who's been
campaigning to change its name to the Spirit River, which is the accurate
translation of the original Indian name.

You'll be pleased to know he's getting nowhere.

Slim

On 10/3/06 2:48 PM, "Robert Skinner" <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:

> http://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Rum-History-World-Cocktails/dp/1400051673/sr=1-1/
> qid=1159904532/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4497046-9672127?ie=UTF8&s=books
> 
> And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails (Hardcover)
> by Wayne Curtis (Author)
> 
> August 4, 2006 Reviewer: MW (Portland, ME)
> 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.
> 
> An Inspired Pub Crawl,
> 
> August 4, 2006 Reviewer: Hannah Holmes (South Portland, ME USA)
> 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...