{"product_id":"how-to-drink-9780691192147","title":"How to Drink","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. . . . [\u003ci\u003eHow to Drink\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Mariani, \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Roger Kimball, \u003ci\u003eSpectator US\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] lively modern rendition . . . [\u003ci\u003eHow to Drink\u003c\/i\u003e] mashes up a \u003ci\u003eHow to Win Friends and Influence People Under the Influence\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Ben O’Donnell, \u003ci\u003eWineSpectator.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Lana Bortolot, \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fontaine has done a good job in resurrecting an amusing enough \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e for those who enjoy exploring such highways and byways.\"\u003cb\u003e---Peter Jones, \u003ci\u003eClassics for All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eHow to Drink\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Matt Kettman, \u003ci\u003eSanta Barbara Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I found this book fascinating . . . I recommend \u003ci\u003eHow to Drink\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tamlyn Currin, \u003ci\u003ejancisrobinson.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eHow to Drink\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Gary Vos, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Classics Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Money, \u003ci\u003eNeo-Latin News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865542996311,"sku":"9780691192147","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691192147.jpg?v=1722274477","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-to-drink-9780691192147","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}