alcoholic beverages
concepts
Wine has the paradoxical quality of being both ordinary and special: a simple food item to be consumed with a meal, it is also widely used as both a symbol in religious ritual and a means of changing human mood or consciousness. As a result, wine often has multiple meanings within consumer culture, connected to life and death, health and pollution, purity and spirituality, and conceptions of order and disorder. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Wine]
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