After over 100 hundreds interviews that I did for my seltzer book, it finally hit me: let people online respond. I don’t know what took me so long but finally, at long last, here it is! The Supreme Seltzer Survey! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H8MKVGW It shouldn’t take more than a minute. Please respondRead More →
In the latest from the FineWater Newsletter: Bottled Water Ousts Canned Drinks in UK’s Inflation Basket Sunday, 04 April 2010 Canned soda drinks are out and small bottles of mineral water are in, according to the Office for National Statistics in its latest annual rejig of the “shopping basket” ofRead More →
I heard today by email from JS of the new Pittsburgh Seltzer Works. Well, new because he just took it over last December, even though it’s been around since 1898. He wrote: “We still operate a siphon seltzer bottling works here in the steel city. If you ever come acrossRead More →
I am so excited to learn just now about a new documentary short focused on the amazing Gomberg Seltzer Works in Brooklyn, where all the seltzer delivery men go to get their siphons refilled. While I once worked a few blocks away in Canarsie, I never made it for aRead More →
I wrote recently about this fascinating CD tale, When Zaidy Was Young. I promised to share the cover art, as well as the back cover and the CD art. Note both the prominent role played by the seltzer siphon and, equally interesting, how little else but that siphon (and ofRead More →
Here’s a cool video from GristTV on a variety of ways to make selzter. Below is their show notes, with more details and context:Read More →
The following is a tale nearly 200 years old, told on pages 134 – 146 of Sir Francis Bond Head’s “Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau.” The text is from Google Books, where each page, scanned from the original, can be viewed or searched through the computerized OCR reading (whichRead More →
Last Fall I wrote about being amazed at how much research has changed since I first began this project. Five years ago my challenge was finding the slightest reference to seltzer, seeking the proverbial needle in the haystack. Now, with Google Books, they’ve given me a new problem. Serving asRead More →
I am finally relistening to my original podcast series, which oddly enough has become a great source of research for me. The irony of course is it’s my research, but I did it so long ago I have already forgotten the details! One of the interviews, yet to be aired,Read More →
Another fun find in Google Books, from some magazine called The New Monthly Magazine, in 1837. This is about some street urchins trying to have one over on the man selling seltzer. “The English drink Seltzer water like fish in the dog-days.” 🙂Read More →