Tonic #6
210 x 270 mm, 156 pages
London, UK
Biannual
First published in 2020
Editor: Juliet Rix
Tonic explores themes of drink, travel and adventure through the 'history, customs and sheer pleasure of alcohol.’ This sunny yellow sixth issue takes you on a journey across the map featuring underwater wine on a Basque beach, a popular Banana booze in Rwanda and an unexpected trail of cider in France.
Now, what are you drinking?
On the Journal:
At work with Juliet Rix: ‘It is amazing the tales there are behind the booze in our bottles. Did you know that NASCAR—American stock car racing—grew directly out of the crazy cross-country driving of the prohibition liquor producers running moonshine in souped up cars to escape the ‘revenue men’? Or that the one thing US founding father Thomas Jefferson could not do—and really, really wanted to!—was make a decent bottle of wine?’
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