Comments on: Food and Beer http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/ Smart is easy. Good is Hard. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:34:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Slartibartfast http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5991 Slartibartfast Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:44:00 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5991 They have a synopsis here: http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=239782 They have a synopsis here:

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=239782

]]> By: nm http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5988 nm Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:08:45 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5988 Cost. Alcoholic (or any) beverages (or anything else, in fact) are costly to transport by land. The earliest US wineries, in New York, couldn't transport their products far. And their wines, due to climate conditions, were far inferior to European wines. Which could be transported to the coasts (by water) relatively cheaply, but which suffered from the same distribution problems in the interior. The development of California as an important wine-producing region (with a climate much better suited to viticulture than that of upstate New York) is slowly leading to changes. Wine is still ridiculously expensive to ship, but (most) California wines are so much cheaper than European wines of the same quality that drinkable and affordable wines are now more widely available. BTW, I don't know how the program you saw defined the Little Ice Age, but by most definitions viticulture in northern Europe stopped about 350 years before it started. Cost. Alcoholic (or any) beverages (or anything else, in fact) are costly to transport by land. The earliest US wineries, in New York, couldn’t transport their products far. And their wines, due to climate conditions, were far inferior to European wines. Which could be transported to the coasts (by water) relatively cheaply, but which suffered from the same distribution problems in the interior.

The development of California as an important wine-producing region (with a climate much better suited to viticulture than that of upstate New York) is slowly leading to changes. Wine is still ridiculously expensive to ship, but (most) California wines are so much cheaper than European wines of the same quality that drinkable and affordable wines are now more widely available.

BTW, I don’t know how the program you saw defined the Little Ice Age, but by most definitions viticulture in northern Europe stopped about 350 years before it started.

]]> By: Home Ec 101 » Blog Archive » Monday, Monday http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5929 Home Ec 101 » Blog Archive » Monday, Monday Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:55:15 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5929 [...] Slarti, the unofficial Mr. Home-Ec 101 (no, neither of us are married to him, that’s what makes him unofficial) pontificates on why Americans love beer and liquor but not wine. [...] [...] Slarti, the unofficial Mr. Home-Ec 101 (no, neither of us are married to him, that’s what makes him unofficial) pontificates on why Americans love beer and liquor but not wine. [...]

]]> By: Rachel http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5927 Rachel Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:39:14 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5927 What? You didn't like my suggestion? :) Let us know when it's ready for public consumption! What? You didn’t like my suggestion? :) Let us know when it’s ready for public consumption!

]]> By: Paul http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5923 Paul Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:29:20 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/food-and-beer/#comment-5923 Good luck with the certification exam.. I thought this post was very funny... you're a good writer. Good luck with the certification exam.. I thought this post was very funny… you’re a good writer.

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