[Rhodes22-list] Another goody for Rummy

[Slim]

Forgot to add the link to the story:

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/717143.html

On 10/3/06 3:13 PM, "Slim" <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:

> 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...
> 
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