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" ... John Adams, one of the original Sons of Liberty was an especially heavy drinker. He would consume every day a vast draught of “hard” cider before breakfast- and end the day with several glasses of Madeira. (He still lived over ninety years!) Madeira is a fortified wine that the landed gentry drank in place of rougher beverages such as rum, sour-flat beer or the poisonous water. Water was not consumed regularly because of the element of surprise that always comes with un-purified water. Whiskey was still in its infancy at this time with Rye just starting to be distilled in far-off Pennsytucky. Our own “Whiskey Rebellion” signaling the formation of the young United States into a nation of tax payers and distillates was yet to take place. ... "
" ... My wife and I attended the 2005 London conference celebrating the centennial of the author's birth, and I do regret not keeping up with the old gang, which included a Finnish schoolteacher, a bookseller from Vermont, one of Powell’s sons and some landed gentry and ex-military who might’ve escaped from one of Powell’s books. ... "
" ... Of the now triumphant urban gentry have their townhouses and high-rise lofts, but the service workers who do their dirty work have to log their way by bus or car from the vast American banlieues, either in peripheral parts of the city (think of Brooklyn’s impoverished fringes) or the poorer close-in suburbs. This progressive economy works from the well-placed academics, the trustfunders and hedge funders, but produces little opportunity for a better life for the vast majority of the middle and working class. ... "
" ... “Churchill, the demand is much higher than supply but we don’t want to increase production at the cost of quality” de Billy told me over lunch at Limani in New York. “We can’t supply everybody. We aren’t a supermarket Champagne, we want to be the Champagne of the gentry.” ... "