Wine in history: Spiked!
What happens when wine is mixed with another psychoactive substance?
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Stuart Walton
Stuart Walton has been writing on wine and food, as well as aspects of cultural history, since 1991. His books include Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication (2001), and Humanity: An Emotional History (2004).
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Stuart Walton enjoys a a genuinely original contribution to Chinese food studies in the present era.
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What happens when wines are left beneath the waves?
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In this life and the next, a river of wine will always be charged with meaning.
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The long and noble history of Florence's "wine windows."
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Between poverty and plenty
Stuart Walton enjoys an authoritative, readable, compellingly ethical history of British food.
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Wine in history: Wine as blood
Stuart Walton explores the sanguine significance of red wine.
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Wine in history: The wine poetry of Li Bai
Stuart Walton on the transcendent vinous verse of an eighth-century Chinese poet who knew the value of drinking alone.
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A fascinating chronicle of vinous crimes
A new book lifts the lid on a history of deceit and criminality in the wine world.
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