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Take, for example, posca. Originally a medicinal tonic used in Greece, posca was a drink made of sour wine or vinegar, mixed with water and flavoring herbs. Roman soldiers and members of lower social classes drank it as an everyday beverage. (Members of higher social classes, of course, drank wine.) Water of the time was often undrinkable, spoiled

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View from a Venetian Window

“He went to the window and stared at the vines that had started their yearly pilgrimage up the inside of the fence around the house on the other side of the canal. As spring advanced, it would creep over the top of the fence and head down towards its real object, the water of the canal, only to stop ten centimetres above

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