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Saintsbury
Through A Glass Lightly
A vintage volume of wine essays is worth savouring
Saintsbury
Wine
David Garrick, Wine Merchant
The actor's brief career as a wine dealer was a dismal failure, but something of this former way of life stayed with him
Saintsbury
Wine
Befuddled Ambition
How drunken disorientation propels
Bel Ami
's protagonist to self-advancement
Saintsbury
Wine
Sipping At The Symposium
Literary symposia from classical Athens to Muriel Spark
Saintsbury
Wine
Drink In A Cold Climate
The law has changed its view of drunkenness greatly over time and from nation to nation
Saintsbury
Wine
Ape And Grape
The drinking habits — and political inclinations — of the orang-utan
Saintsbury
Wine
Veni, Vidi, Vinum
The Romans had a tendency towards alarming additives in their drinks
Saintsbury
History
Wine
Grape Vs. Weed
Why Baudelaire preferred the healing effects of wine to the despondency of hashish
Saintsbury
Wine
A Few Glasses Of Sheridan
The playwright Sheridan had a prodigious fondness for drink, even by the standards of his hard-drinking age
Saintsbury
Wine
Sacramental Liquid
Drink, in Robert Louis Stevenson's works, both reveals and debases
Saintsbury
Wine
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
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The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
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