The historical visit of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to France will be without an official state dinner, which is normally an important part of every meeting between statesmen. The reason: both parties couldn’t agree on the question if alcohol should be served or not. Rouhani demanded a meal without booze, in the tradition of his…
The oldest cookbook from the Arab world dates back from 10th century Baghdad. Nice, you may think, but what does that have to do with drinking? Well, in Kitab al-Tabikh (Book of Cookery) the writer Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq didn’t just collect recipes for culinary dishes but also a lot for all kinds of health problems,…
The English newspaper The Telegraph revealed an outrageous situation at Marks & Spencer. Apparently employees of this department store are free to refuse selling customers alcohol. This came out after a Muslim employee asked her customers with alcohol or pork meat to wait till another cash register would open up. Her employer apologized for the…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is the national hero of Turkey. He was an army officer, a revolutionary, founder of modern day Turkey but above all one hell of a drinker. The man drank a liter of raki, the Turkish national liquor, a day. Probably also the reason why he died only 57 years old from a…
In search of interesting posts about alcohol the Lords of the Drinks often wander the web. From time to time we than stumble across some religious freak that tells us God doesn’t want us to drink. For the record: so far this only happened with Christians. That’s right, a religion where drinking is allowed. Now…
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