Alcoholic Drinks Book Report

This book portrays history and its importance till this day. We are able to see history from another point of view, when speaking of history we tend to think of previous wars or other events that created an impact. Once reading this book we are able to further our knowledge of history through six different drinks. It gives us a whole different aspect of our history and how various things came to be. Overall, it is a great book to read and all the details the author includes can help students in future events.

Most, if not all, of these drinks had medicinal uses before they were either proven wrong or were surpassed by a better product. Aqua vitae, a distilled wine, was a popular medicine that was either consumed or applied on a wound. The higher alcohol content provided by distillation allowed aqua vitae to “preserve youth; improve memory; treat diseases of the brain, nerves, and joints,; revive the heart; calm toothache; cure blindness, speech defects, and paralysis; and even protect against the plague.” The caffeinated drink that was used the most among medicine is easily tea. Originating in China, people immediately noticed the decline in bacterial diseases such as cholera, typhoid, and dysentery, which were killed off while boiling the water.

Matcha originated from southwest China, Yunnan in ninth century. It was usually being used for medical purposes only among Chinese. Realizing the potential of matcha, the Zen Buddhist monks from Japan brought the tea and tea seeds back to their country and started to cultivate in their traditional way at the end of twelfth century. How matcha is made?

This consumption naturally creates a great demand and hence they introduced , planted the tea in the “colonised”, now the developing countries. It is therfore not very surprising to note that it has been produced, consumed and exported by many South East and East Asian countries and African countries. As expected these are usually the developing countries . This tea forms the part of their GDP as well as is an important source of revenue for these governments.

Purpose In the real world, many millennials and adults are encouraged into drinking coffee because they believe that it increases their energy and helps to concentrate better. We have decided to investigate the placebo effect and see how the type of caffeine affects one’s concentration and heart rate. Safety Hazards Don't leave the kettle unattended Do not give a dangerous amount of caffeine to the participants. Make sure you wear the proper attire for the experiment.

Transgenic crops containing caffeine has been produced, which may save labor and agricultural costs and also alleviate the environmental load of pesticides in future (Uefuji et al., 2005). Moreover, repellant effect of caffeine has been reported for snails and slugs (Hollingsworth et al., 2002). Caffeine presence is not only limited to coffee and tea plants, 0.9% of dry weight in citrus flower is of caffeine, which is broken down during production of honey (Kretschmar and Baumann, 1990). In plants, caffeine is synthesized from primary metabolites by de novo synthesis or

Imperialism affected imperialised peoples in both positive and negative ways. One positive way it affected a population was it increased a people 's ability to prosper. It did this through bringing medicine and education. Imperialists also set up infrastructure and governments. These nations also opened the imperialised countries up to trade.

Due to the globalization of tea, its remarkable value in the European and Asian markets, as well as the deep interconnection of tea in the Chinese lifestyle, tea quickly became an intrinsic part of Chinese culture. The history behinf the gōng fu chá however is not very clear, as some historians and scholars argue its origin in the Chaoshan area in Guangdong, while others believing it was originated in Wuyi in the Fujian

Second Step: Tubular reabsorption. This is the process where water is filtered from the blood. This liquid is returned to the blood through renal tubules. This filters out any contaminants. This fluid then flows into the loop of Henle and to the collecting ducts.

The first country that it reached was England when King Charles II married Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, who, after trying tea, decided to make tea a royal drink. Thus, making tea a prevalent import by the East India Company. This is when English afternoon tea parties were the way in which the high class enjoyed tea. As greater quantities of tea were imported, the taxes placed on these imports began rising to the point where the taxes were so high that tea began being smuggles and sold illegally at cheaper prices for those that couldn’t afford it otherwise. In order to expand their profit, the East India Company began exporting tea to the United States.

The Chinese used tea has a medicine, similar to spirits. When tea was popular for being known as a medicine, it spread across Europe and Asia. India became very involved with the tea industry, which allowed many people to get jobs. Another thing tea caused was the rise and fall of the British Empire. When the British controlled America, the British put “Tea Acts” on Americans, which led to the Boston Tea Party.

If you were to halt a random person on the streets of a large city and ask them to explain exactly how America came to be, chances are they wouldn’t be able to answer solidly. Well, unless they happen to be a history teacher. Although, most American citizens don’t even know who the ruler of England was when the 13 colonies came. There’s a lot of misconceptions, too. Like how Columbus ‘discovered’ America and that George Washington was the first president.