In keeping with the policy of this blog, I’m going to wait until tomorrow to post the Robert Redford obits. By then, any corrections and additions should be in place and the final versions should be up.<\/p>\n
Patricia Crowley<\/a>, actress. Other credits<\/a> include “Today’s F.B.I.”, “The Bold Ones: The New Doctors”, “The Rockford Files”, “Columbo”, and the good “Hawaii Five-O”.<\/p>\n Patrick McGovern<\/a>. His obit is relevant to my interests:<\/p>\n Bespectacled, bearded and more professorial in appearance than the Indiana Jones character that Harrison Ford played onscreen, Dr. McGovern used modern scientific methods, including multiple forms of spectrometry, to identify biomarkers in the residue in primitive drinking vessels.<\/a> …<\/p>\n Dr. McGovern was sometimes asked which came first: bread or beer?<\/a> In keeping with the policy of this blog, I’m going to wait until tomorrow to post the Robert Redford obits. By then, any corrections and additions should be in place and the final versions should be up. Patricia Crowley, actress. Other credits include “Today’s F.B.I.”, “The Bold Ones: The New Doctors”, “The Rockford Files”, “Columbo”, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,15,31,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-mixology","category-movies","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31091,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions\/31091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cWhen analyzing something, I work from a minuscule amount of chemical, botanical and archaeological data,\u201d he told National Geographic magazine in 2016. \u201cI look for principal ingredients: Does it have a grain? A fruit? An herb?\u201d<\/a>
\nOne of his discoveries, found in shards of pottery dating back 9,000 years to a Neolithic village in China, was believed to be the oldest alcoholic beverage in the world \u2014 a mix of fermented rice, honey and hawthorn fruit, a red berry.<\/a>
\nAnother was the world\u2019s oldest grape wine, dating to 6,000-5,800 B.C. in Georgia\u2019s South Caucasus region.<\/a>
\nAnd from 157 bronze vessels left behind in the tomb of King Midas in Turkey, Dr. McGovern identified a beverage made of barley beer, grape wine and honey mead. Given the proximity of the drinkware to the king\u2019s body, the concoction was probably passed around during his funerary feast, as at an Irish wake.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\u201cYou need food to exist,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if you want to have a good time,\u201d he added, \u201cif you want social lubrication, if you want to up your sexual relations and so produce more children, then alcoholic beverages help.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"