Did John Adams Drink Cider At Breakfast?
It’s almost Pavlovian: American cider writers are incapable of publishing a cider history or how-to without stating that John Adams, Doer and Patriot, drank cider for breakfast. They might even include...
View ArticlePennsylvania Cider Consumption 1740-1790 – Maybe?
As I’ve mentioned before, one of my research interests is finding out how much cider early American farm families produced and consumed. Pennsylvania is of particular interest because I live there. If...
View ArticleCider Was a Gateway Drink In 1838
How does one get to the land of Inebriation? According to C. Wilterberger, Jr’s 1838 Temperance Map it all starts with cider. The map is an allegory of one’s descent into drunkenness and the (one and...
View ArticleMore On the Adams Cider Story
Historians, like everyone else, enjoy when people read what they write. But historians are even happier when someone challenges and/or expands their argument. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that...
View ArticleCider as a Study Aid
The following was gleaned from “The Life of the Mind: Oliver Sacks’s 121 Formative and Favorite Books from a Lifetime of Reading“post on Brain Pickings. Cider turns up in the most interesting places....
View ArticleIntemperate Temperance Cuts Down Cider
This is the next installment in our continuing series, “Did Prohibition Prohibit Cider?” ____________________________________________________ Though Temperance originally advocated moderation, after...
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