Today, 17 May, is #WorldWhiskyDay 🥃. Slàinte mhath!
Wring the Scottish rain clouds dry;
Take sleet, the driving snow, the hail;
Winter twilight; the summer’s sun slowed down
to pearl-sheen dusk on hillsides, city-roofs,
on lochs at midnight.
And, most of all, take the years that have already run
to dust, the dust we spill behind us…
—Ron Butlin, “A Recipe for Whisky”
published in WITHOUT A BACKWARD GLANCE (Barzan 2005)
Whisky: the spirit of Scottish national identity
“Whisky, no doubt, is a devil; but why has this devil so many worshippers?”
—Lord Cockburn, 1845
Charles Snodgrass looks at how whisky intersects with writers, artefacts, politics, economy, & geography, as well as Scotland’s national psyche
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/04/whisky-the-spirit-of-scottish-national-identity/
#Scottish #Scotland #literature #culture #whisky #WorldWhiskyDay
‘Whisky, no doubt, is a devil; but why has this devil so many worshippers?’ — Lord Henry Cockburn, 6 April 18451 Beyond the kitsch culture of kilts lies Scotland’s last, enduring, and somewhat problematic fetish: Scotch whisky. This morning I would like to argue that through a turbulent history of illegal distillation, royal rehabilitation, and […]
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