Fizz
Subtitle: how soda shook up the world
By: Tristan Donovan
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781613747223
Subjects: Soft drinks; Carbonated beverages; History
Description: "This social, cultural, and culinary history charts soda's remarkable, world-changing journey from awe-inspiring natural mystery to ubiquity. Off-the-wall and offbeat stories abound, including how quack medicine peddlers spawned some of the world's biggest brands, how fizzy pop cashed in on Prohibition, how soda helped presidents reach the White House, and even how Pepsi influenced Apple's marketing of the iPod. This history of carbonated drinks follows a seemingly simple everyday refreshment as it zinged and pinged over society's taste buds and, in doing so, changed the world"--

"The story of soda is the story of the modern world, a tale of glamorous bubbles, sparkling dreams, big bucks, miracle cures, and spreading waistlines. FIZZ: HOW SODA SHOOK UP THE WORLD charts soda's remarkable, world-changing journey from awe-inspiring natural mystery to ubiquitous presence in all our lives. Along the way you'll meet the quack medicine peddlers who spawned some of the world's biggest brands with their all-healing concoctions, as well as the grandees of science and medicine mesmerized by the magic of bubbling water. You'll discover how fizzy pop cashed in on Prohibition, helped presidents reach the White House, and became public health enemy number one. You'll learn how Pepsi put the fizz in Apple's marketing and how soda's sticky sweet allure defined and built nations. And you'll find out how a soda-loving snail rewrote the law books. Fizz tells the extraordinary tale of how a seemingly simple everyday refreshment zinged and pinged over our taste buds and, in doing so, changed the world around us"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The beverage of kings; title: Meet me at the soda fountain; title: The medicine men; title: A snail in a bottle; title: The bar is dead, soda is king!; title: Was ist Coca-Cola?; title: Cola-colonization; title: Racists, eco-freaks, and cancer rats; title: A better mousetrap; title: Beverage backlash.