"white wine"

[George Thompson]

The local library has only vols. 1-4 of DARE -- I thought it had been said here that the last volume had appeared, but I don't see it in Global BIP -- but however that may be:

. . . the sellers of "white wine," as they denominate that article, which is neither more nor less than buttermilk. .  . .
New-York Evening Post, July 10, 1830, p. 2, col. 3, from NYConstellation

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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