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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is always good to find a new book on the shelves that regards wine with both pleasure and common sense, including a good deal about manners and drunkenness. . . . [
How to Drink is] an enjoyable read and . . . makes good, genial sense at a time when wine is now being taken far too seriously as a subject to be put under a microscope rather than be sloshed into a glass."
---John Mariani, Forbes"[How to Drink is] a fetching translation . . . I recommend it, as much for its hints about drinking ‘sustainably and with discrimination’ as for its wry warnings about excess."
---Roger Kimball, Spectator US"[A] lively modern rendition . . . [
How to Drink] mashes up a
How to Win Friends and Influence People Under the Influence sort of self-help book, a snapshot of a binge-drinking culture 500 years ago and a personal airing of grievances through the lens of one entertaining, wildly self-contradictory and extremely cantankerous tutor."
---Ben O’Donnell, WineSpectator.com"If you can escape the world for a couple of days, bring this delightful book with you and cue up your Pandora 'Circa 1500' playlist . . . a balance of elegance and boisterousness."
---Lana Bortolot, Forbes"Fontaine has done a good job in resurrecting an amusing enough
oeuvre for those who enjoy exploring such highways and byways."
---Peter Jones, Classics for All"[
How to Drink] serves as relevant social commentary for today, railing, with wit and humor, against toxic masculinity and overindulgence while providing advice on how to win drinking games. It’s a great addition to your bartending library."
---Matt Kettman, Santa Barbara Independent"I found this book fascinating . . . I recommend
How to Drink for anyone who enjoys history, the social aspects of alcohol, and the fact that some things never seem to change through the ages!" * TheBrewholder.com *
"I adored this quirky little book. It’s half a millennium old and relevant. It’s vulnerably human, capricious, mercurial, inconsistent, wise, ridiculous, passionate and poetic. It’s unintentionally hilarious."
---Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com"[
How to Drink] is a witty, entertaining and well produced book, whose editor/translator is clearly well-matched to the subject-matter: in Fontaine’s capable hands, Obsopoeus is anything but an acquired taste."
---Gary Vos, The Journal of Classics Teaching"This is a fun little book; it is also a scholarly edition of a little-known sixteenth-century didactic poem, accompanied by an eminently readable translation—an unusual and commendable combination. . . . We should be thankful to Michael Fontaine for undertaking this edition and translation, and to Princeton University Press for publishing it. . . . Obsopoeus might well be proud of how his poem has been presented to twenty-first-century readers."
---David Money, Neo-Latin News
