Whiskey and philosophy
Subtitle: a small batch of spirited ideas
By: Fritz Allhoff, Marcus P. Adams.
Contributors: Allhoff, Fritz.; Adams, Marcus P.
Series: Epicurean series
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470431214
Subjects: Whiskey
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Charles MacLean; title: Introduction: Start up the still / Fritz Allhoff and Marcus P. Adams; title: Scotch Whisky : from origins to conglomerates / Andrew Jefford; title: Provenance and authenticity : the dual myths of Scotch / Ian Buxton; title: The heritage of Scotch Whisky : from Monks to Surgeon Barbers / David Wishart; title: Women, whiskey, and libationary liberation / Ada Brunstein; title: The Manhattan and you : thinking about a classic whiskey cocktail / Hans Allhoff; title: Whiskey, whisky, wild living, and the hedonistic paradox / Robert Arp; title: What to drink? : why we choose the Bourbons we do / Mark H. Waymack; title: The phenomenology of spirits : how do whiskeys win prizes? / Douglas Burnham and Ole Martin Skilleas; title: The ideal Scotch : lessons from Hegel / Thom Brooks; title: Where the fiddich meets the spey: my religious experience / Harvey Siegel; title: As a good bartender might: whiskey and natural kinds / Thomas W. Polger; title: Heisenberg's spirits : tasting is more uncertain than it seems / Jerry O. Dalton; title: Bourbon, one Scotch, and one Buddhist theory of no-self / Steven F. Geisz; title: What do tasting notes tell us? / Ian J. Dove; title: The virtuous whisky drinker and living well / Richard Menary; title: Nasty tempers : does whiskey make people immoral? / Dave Monroe; title: Whisky and the wild : on preserving methods and distilleries / Jason Kawall; title: Peat and seaweed : the expressive character of Islay Whiskies / Kevin W. Sweeney; title: Japanese whisky : it's called Queen George and it's more bitched up than its name? / Chris Bunting; title: Whisky and culture : from Islay to Speyside / Susie Pryor and Andrew Martin.