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“Before Prohibition the United States had more than 10,000 distilleries; as of 2012 there were just about 250 at the craft scale. But twenty years before, there were only 4.”
― Adam Rogers, Proof: The Science of Booze

“North and Central America have thirty species of Vitis; China has another thirty. But Eurasia has only V. vinifera. And Eurasia is where wine was born. From Chardonnay to Pinot Noir, Syrah to Viognier, all wine—no matter what the label says, what color it is, or where it comes from—is made from the same species of grape, probably originating somewhere in the Transcaucasian Highland connecting the Black and Caspian Seas, in what’s now the country Georgia, and then spreading south to the Fertile Crescent and Egypt.”
― Adam Rogers, Proof: The Science of Booze

“I am old-fashioned, or sentimental, or something, about books! Whenever I read one I want, in the first place, to enjoy myself, and, in the next place, to feel that I am a little better and not a little worse for having read it. It”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States

“Complacency is a slow gas leak, not a bomb blast. Like being robbed by a thief in the night who only steals a penny at a time, we awake to find the days have all gone somewhere. Things”
― Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck