All tagged Drinkways
This week we share stories related to the fall harvest and the topic of drinkways. The term refers to the study of the reason why we drink what we drink and how that changes over time. The stories come from WPA food sources on 1930s and 1940s Mississippi.
What's the history behind eggnog and why people in the United States drink it during the winter holiday season?
In The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, author James Weldon Johnson provides an interesting prospective on French and British drinking culture in the early 1900s to the 1920s. The protagonist in the novel writes, “I have walked along the terrace cafés of Paris . . .
