American cider a modern guide to a historic beverage

"Pucci and Cavallo use a region-by-region approach to illuminate how ciders and the apples they're made from came to be, from the well-known tale of Johnny Appleseed--which isn't quite what we thought--to the more surprising effects of industrial progress and government policy. Americ...

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Main Authors: Pucci, Dan (Author), Cavallo, Craig (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A short history of cider
  • The origin of apples
  • Apples for cider
  • How cider is made
  • How to taste cider
  • Cider's road ahead
  • What to expect from this guide
  • The Southeast
  • Eastern Virginia and Coastal Carolina
  • Western Virginia (Shenandoah Valley)
  • Appalachian Mountains
  • New England
  • Champlain Valley
  • Connecticut River Valley
  • Maine and Coastal New England
  • New York
  • Hudson Valley
  • Catskill and Taconic Mountains
  • Finger Lakes
  • Western New York
  • New York City
  • Temperance and the Protestant pursuit of control
  • Mid-Atlantic
  • Adams County, Pennsylvania
  • Delaware River
  • Washington, DC
  • Newark, New Jersey
  • Orchards, apples, and temperance
  • The Midwest
  • Ohio and Indiana
  • Mississippi River Valley
  • Driftless Area
  • Western Lake Michigan
  • Southeastern Lake Michigan
  • grand Traverse Bay and Northern Michigan
  • Apples and myths in the American frontier
  • Mountains and plains
  • The plains
  • Colorado's Front Range
  • Colorado's Western Slope
  • Montezuma Valley
  • The Southwest
  • Prohibition and the reverberations of temperance
  • California
  • Southern California
  • Central Coast
  • Santa Cruz
  • Sonoma County
  • Mendocino and Humboldt Counties
  • San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevadas
  • Pacific Northwest
  • Puget Sound
  • Hood River, Oregon
  • Willamette Valley, Oregon
  • Central Washington
  • Montana and the Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • And so...