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In our latest piece of bonus content, writer Max Wolfson talks with wine writer Rod Phillips about the history of alcohol, the moralizing that surrounds it and the customs that celebrate our need for inebriation.

Rod Phillips is a wine writer, wine historian, and wine judge based in Ottawa, Canada. He's also a professor of history at Carleton University where he teaches courses on European (especially French) history and the history of alcohol and food. Additionally, he's written several books on the subject, incuding Alcohol: A History, 9000 Years of Wine, and Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink that Changed our Lives and is an occasional contributer to The World of Fine Wine (U.K.) and GuildSomm.com, the Guild of Sommeliers’ web site in the U.S.
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This week on Beef, brewers and booze-hounds of every social strata go head to head in 18th century Great Britain over what’s better: beer or gin.

Pick up a copy of Stuart Walton's book "Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication"

Learn more about Rod Phillips' wine writing on his website!

Hosted by Bridget Todd
Written by Max Wolfson
The actors who voiced Sor Juana’s words are Luisa Sofia and Franco Machado-Pesce
Showrunning, Editing & Sound Design by Pete Musto
Produced by James "Sam" Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo
Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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In our latest piece of bonus content, showrunner Pete Musto talks with Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto about the spirit of adventure, the human cost of exploration and the mythmaking that happens around people who seek the forbidden and the unknown.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a professor of Ancient, Early Modern, Medieval, and Modern History at the University of Notre-Dame. Professor Fernández-Armesto earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford, and has also taught at Tufts University and the University of London. He is author of dozens of books on history, “Oxford History of the World” several focusing specifically on famous explorers, including “Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan,” “Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America,” and “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration,” for which he won the 2007 World History Association Book Prize.
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This week on Beef, fearless explorers Sir Richard Burton and Captain John Hanning Speke face unimaginable dangers, and their own divisiveness, while searching for the source of the Nile River.

Check out Felipe Fernández-Armesto's latest book The Oxford History of the World.

Learn more about Robin Hanbury-Tenison's adventures in South America!

Hosted by Bridget Todd
Writing, Editing & Sound Design by Showrunner Pete Musto
Produced by James Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo
Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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In our latest piece of bonus content, host Bridget Todd talks with journalist and author J. Randy Taraborrelli about the complexities of the Bouvier family, the weight of international fame, and what our fascination with celebrities says about our culture.

J. Randy Taraborrelli is a frequent contributing entertainment reporter for Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning. And he’s written multiple New York Times best-selling biographies of some of the world's biggest celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Madonna and Diana Ross, and several covering the lives of the Bouviers and Kennedys, including his most recent book "Jackie - Public, Private, Secret.”
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This week on Beef, Former First-Lady Jackie Kennedy and her sister Princess Lee Radziwill play tug-of-war with the public’s affection and adoration.

Grab a copy of J. Randy Taraborrelli's latest book about the Bouviers - Jackie: Public, Private, Secret.

Hosted by Bridget Todd
Writing, Editing & Sound Design by Showrunner Pete Musto
Produced by James Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo
Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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