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    People are working out in the shadows.
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    Secret Gyms And The Economics Of Prohibition

    Aug 11, 2020
    COVID-19 safeguards have created a black market for gyms.
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    Book Reviews
    <em>The Ghosts of Eden Park</em>, by Karen Abbott
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    'The Ghosts Of Eden Park' Seems Fittingly Haunted By Prohibition

    Aug 08, 2019
    Karen Abbott's page-turner teases with its central mystery, reaching its climactic final trial with a satisfying bang — though more on the politics of the time would have been a welcome layer.
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    The Salt
    In less than 100 years, thousands upon thousands of diamondback terrapins had succumbed to the American appetite, depleting the species.
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    Our Taste For Turtle Soup Nearly Wiped Out Terrapins. Then Prohibition Saved Them

    Jul 18, 2019
    By the turn of the 20th century, America's love affair with diamondback terrapin soup — a subsistence food turned gourmet fare — had left the turtle's population teetering. Booze ban to the rescue.
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    Food
    The new standard in Kansas, which took effect on Monday, April 1, lifts the cap on beer alcohol levels, but only to a degree. The new maximum is 6% alcohol by volume.
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    The End Is Near For 3.2 Beer

    Apr 05, 2019
    The end of a Depression-era alcohol has brewers happy to see the stuff go. "It was just a pain in the posterior, you know, for everyone," says one brewer.
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    Nevada Yesterdays
    Prohibition
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    18th Amendment, Part 2

    Feb 08, 2019

    Nevada’s one-time effort to enforce prohibition didn’t go over too well.

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    The Salt
    Scuppernong White Table Wine from Duplin Wine Cellars
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    Muscadines May Be The Best Grapes You've Never Tasted

    Sep 26, 2017
    It's muscadine season, and for writer Tanya Ballard Brown, the smell and taste are a throwback to childhood. But for others who grew up outside the South, these thick-skinned grapes are a mystery.
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    The Salt
    Sisters Catherine (left) and Margaret Portner have re-established Portner's Brewery, which was opened in Alexandria, Va., in 1869 by their great-great-grandfather, then closed during Prohibition.
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    How The Story Of Beer Is The Story Of America

    Jul 03, 2017
    The Smithsonian's first brewing historian explores everything from immigration to urbanization through the lens of beer. And with the boom in microbrewing, she says beer's story has come full circle.
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    The Salt
    Among the products of Detroit City Distillery are Homegrown Rye Whiskey and Butcher's Cut Bourbon.
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    Detroit Returns To Its Prohibition-Era Whiskeytown Roots And Finds New Life

    Nov 30, 2016
    The Motor City was at the heart of most of the country's illegal liquor trade during Prohibition. Now, the city is embracing its identity as a major force in the artisanal craft whiskey market.
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    Bad Poetry, Great Booze: The Story Of The Hidden Bootlegger's Manual

    Dec 18, 2015
    The book's outside cover boasted poems by a disgraced writer. But inside was page after page of handwritten recipes for alcohol — the secretly preserved know-how of a Prohibition-era doctor.
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