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A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture. Common types of drinks include plain drinking water, milk, juice, smoothies and soft drinks. Traditionally warm beverages include coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. Caffeinated drinks that contain the stimulant caffeine have a long history.

In addition, alcoholic drinks such as wine, beer, and liquor, which contain the drug ethanol, have been part of human culture for more than 8,000 years. Non-alcoholic drinks often signify drinks that would normally contain alcohol, such as beer, wine and cocktails, but are made with a sufficiently low concentration of alcohol by volume. The category includes drinks that have undergone an alcohol removal process such as non-alcoholic beers and de-alcoholized wines. (Full article...)

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A Cosmopolitan

A Cosmopolitan is a cocktail made with vodka, Cointreau or Triple Sec, cranberry juice, and fresh-squeezed lime juice or sweetened lime juice. Informally, it is referred to as a Cosmo.

According to the International Bartenders Association the original recipe is based on vodka citron, lemon-flavored vodka. The cosmopolitan is a relative of cranberry coolers like the Cape Codder. Though often presented far differently, the cosmopolitan also bears a likeness in composition to the kamikaze cocktail.

This origins of the cosmopolitan are somewhat disputed. It is likely that the drink was created independently by different bartenders since the 1970s. It is generally recognized that John Caine brought the drink to San Francisco around 1987 from the Midwest. The same year in Manhattan, the internationally recognized version of the cocktail was created by Toby Cecchini, based on a poorly described version of Cheryl Cook's creation. (Full article...)

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... that the Buddha is said to have sat under a charoli tree at Bodh Gaya for seven days without eating, drinking, washing, excreting, or lying down?
... that after drinking five glasses of "purging" mineral water from the Physic Well on Barnet Common, Samuel Pepys had to break his journey back to London seven or eight times to relieve himself?
... that Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?
... that the relatively low standards of player selection for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1883 have been described as being "determined with a nod and a wink over drinks"?
... that the "Mayor of Picklesburgh" is decided by a pickle juice drinking competition?
... that the Duke of Sussex has been providing drinks in Acton Green for over a century?

... that the first written record of whiskey comes from 1405 in Ireland and it is also mentioned in Scotland in 1496?

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Image 1Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 2Espresso brewing, with a dark reddish-brown foam, called crema (from List of drinks)
Image 3Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. (from List of national drinks)
Image 4Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 5Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 6Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 7Many in both Peru and Chile think that pisco sour is their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 8The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 9A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 10A glass of cola served with ice cubes and lemon (from List of drinks)
Image 11Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 12Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 13Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 14Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 15A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 16A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 17Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 18A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 19A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 202004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 21Various views of a bottle of mezcal. The "worm", which is actually the larval form of the moth Hypopta agavis that lives on the agave plant, can be seen in the middle image, at the bottom of the bottle. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 22Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 23Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 24Krupnik, a national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 25A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 26Hot chocolate served with a croissant (from List of drinks)
Image 27Classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28Per capita, Turkey drinks more tea than any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 29Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 30A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 31Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 32Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 33Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Image 34Characteristics of boba tea (also known as "bubble tea" or "pearl milk tea") -- the national drink of Taiwan -- are the tapioca balls that rest at the bottom of the beverage that are drunk with a wide straw. (from List of national drinks)
Image 35Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 36Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 37The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 38A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 39Clear vodka served with pickled cucumber – the usual way of consuming it in Slavic countries of the so-called "vodka belt". (from List of national drinks)
Image 40Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 41Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 42A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.
Image 43Bosnian Coffee accessory manufacturers' small shops in Baščaršija - drink is important part of country's culture, and was major part of its economy in the past. (from List of national drinks)
Image 44Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 45The new Seven Color Tea, a recent competitor for national drink of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 46Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 47Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)

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A postcard from the late 1800s featuring a lady toasting the reader

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The Bronfman family is a Canadian family, known for its extensive business holdings. It owes its initial fame to Samuel Bronfman (1889–1971), the most influential Canadian Jew of the mid-20th century, who made a fortune in the alcoholic distilled beverage business during American prohibition, including the sale of liquor through organized crime, through founding the Seagram Company, and who later became president of the Canadian Jewish Congress (1939–62).

The family is of Russian-Jewish and Romanian-Jewish ancestry; the patriarch, Yechiel (Ekiel) Bronfman, was originally a tobacco farmer from Bessarabia. According to The New York Times staff reporter Nathaniel Popper, the Bronfman family is "perhaps the single largest force in the Jewish charitable world." (Full article...)

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Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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— Francis Bacon
Apothegms No. 97,
reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or, less commonly, O. glaberrima (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera Zizania and Porteresia, both wild and domesticated, although the term may also be used for primitive or uncultivated varieties of Oryza.

As a cereal grain, domesticated rice is the most widely consumed staple food for over half of the world's human population, particularly in Asia and Africa. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production, after sugarcane and maize. Since sizable portions of sugarcane and maize crops are used for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important food crop with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one-fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans. There are many varieties of rice, and culinary preferences tend to vary regionally.

The traditional method for cultivating rice is flooding the fields while, or after, setting the young seedlings. This simple method requires sound irrigation planning, but it reduces the growth of less robust weed and pest plants that have no submerged growth state, and deters vermin. While flooding is not mandatory for the cultivation of rice, all other methods of irrigation require higher effort in weed and pest control during growth periods and a different approach for fertilizing the soil.

Used in Beer, Rice wine, Whiskey.

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General topics:	Bartending • Bottling • Drinking • Drinking water • Bottled water • Mineral water • Coffee • Energy drink • Juice • Tea • Milk • Plant milk • Pasteurization • Refrigeration • Steeping • Water purification
Alcoholic beverages:	Beer • Brandy • Brewing • Caffeinated alcoholic drinks • Cider • Cocktails • Distillation • Fermentation • Hard soda • Liquor • Liqueur • Malt drink • Mead • Proof • Rice Wine • Schnapps • Vodka • Whiskey • Wine
Soft Drinks:	Carbonation • Cola • Orange soft drink • Frozen carbonated drink • Root beer • Soda water • Lithia water •
Miscellaneous:	Drink industry • Lemonade • Limeade • Orange drink • Slush (beverage)

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