This is Christopher Kimball. You know, I recently went to Romania, Transylvania, to be specific,

and I fell in love. The Carpathian Mountains are wild, they're rugged, the food is local,

and much of it is from root cellars and gardens, and the recipes are unique and exciting,

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Now, I love Transylvania so much.

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This is Mill Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

In the United States, adults drink an average of 28 gallons of beer per year, but the first

beer ever made was nothing more than an accident.

Probably a batch of bread gone wrong. Probably too much moisture got into where they've

storing the grain to make bread. It started to smell slightly funky. Some brave goreman

decided to try some and felt a little bit inebriated, a little bit good about himself.

And they decided they liked that effect.

How beer took over the world, that's coming up later in the show.

But first, let's talk about liquor.

Aaron Goldfarb, author of Dusty Booze, joins me now.

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