Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell

By Sharman Apt Russell

Each day, we get up hungry. on a daily basis, we holiday our quickly. starvation is either a typical and an unnatural human . In Hunger, Sharman Apt Russell explores the variety of this primal adventure. step-by-step, Russell takes us throughout the body structure of starvation, from eighteen hours with no nutrients to thirty-six hours to 3 days to seven days to thirty days. In quiet, based prose, she asks a query as huge as heritage and as daily as skipping lunch: How does starvation paintings?

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Adding to that is the need to continue educating myself on the category of whiskey and bourbon. Like I said before, my life is a paid vacation, so it doesn’t feel like a job to me. Whiskey professor happens to be my job title, but I feel that I’m not just called the whiskey professor, I am The Whiskey Professor. com. Shaking hands with Phil Prichard of Prichard’s Distillery (Prichard’s Whiskies/Rums) How I Became a Whiskey Professor • 35 Fred Noe and son Freddie, seventh- and eighth-generation Beams at the Bourbon Black Tie Gala 2011 36 • BOURBON WHISKEY 2 What Makes Bourbon, Bourbon?

When they distilled the beer, they got what they called usquebaugh, and thus were born Irish and Scotch whiskies. Usquebaugh (pronounced Ush-kabay-ha) means “water of life” in Gaelic. Most nations had their own version of the “water of life”— water made drinkable by distillation: Aqua Vitae (Latin), Aquavit (Scandinavia), Eau-De-Vie (French), Zhizennia and Voda (Russian). Some were made from grapes, some from grains, but all were high in alcohol content. So when the Scottish, Irish, Spanish and French immigrants came to the New World, they brought their knowledge of distilling.

Where do you store it? Do you move the barrels around or just let them rest? From where do you pull the barrels after aging? First of all, let’s put to rest the myth that bourbon has to be aged for two years in the barrel. This is not true. The Standards of Identity only say that bourbon should be “stored” in a brand new charred-oak container. As Jimmy Russell from Wild Turkey says, with bourbon you can use the “Fifteen/Fifteen” rule: As long as you put the new under-125-proof bourbon whiskey in the new charred-oak bucket for 15 seconds or carry if for 15 feet, you’ve got bourbon.

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