http://paperpalate.net/2006/02/02/learning_what_alcohol_can_tell_us_about/ Food and wine in magazines and newspapers, cookbook reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:27:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://paperpalate.net/2006/02/02/learning_what_alcohol_can_tell_us_about/#comment-111 Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:14:07 +0000 http://paperpalate.net/2006/02/02/learning_what_alcohol_can_tell_us_about/#comment-111 In college, I took a history seminar entitled, "The Social Context of Alcohol in the Soviet Union and Modern Day Russia", and we got a semester's worth of material talking about vodka and its political and economic implications in Russia. It sounded like a fluff class, but there were lots of interesting topics that were brought up. (I ended up writing my final paper on alcohol in Russian fairy tales - there's a lot of it, and it serves different roles.) Alcohol's not just for drinking. In college, I took a history seminar entitled, “The Social Context of Alcohol in the Soviet Union and Modern Day Russia”, and we got a semester’s worth of material talking about vodka and its political and economic implications in Russia. It sounded like a fluff class, but there were lots of interesting topics that were brought up. (I ended up writing my final paper on alcohol in Russian fairy tales - there’s a lot of it, and it serves different roles.) Alcohol’s not just for drinking.

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