American cider: a modern guide to a historic beverage

A short history of cider

The origin of apples

Apples for cider

How cider is made

How to taste cider

Cider's road ahead

What to expect from this guide

The Southeast. Eastern Virginia and Coastal Carolina

Western Virginia (Shenandoah Valley) Appalachian Mountains

New England. Champlain Valley

Connecticut River Valley

Maine and Coastal New England

New York. Hudson Valley

Catskill and Taconic Mountains

Finger lakes

Western New York

New York City

Temperance and the protestant pursuit of control

Mid-Atlantic

Adams County, Pennsylvania

Delaware River

Washington, D.C.

Newark, New Jersey

Orchards, apples, and Temperance

The Midwest

Ohio and Indiana

Mississippi River Valley

Driftless area

Western Lake Michigan

Southeastern Lake Michigan

Grand Traverse Bay and Northern Michigan

Apples and myths in the American Frontier

Mountains and plains

The plains

Colorado's Front Range

Colorado's western slope

Montezuma Valley

The Southest

Prohibition and the reverberations of temperance

California

Southern California

Central coast

Santa Cruz

Sonoma County

Mendocino and Humboldt Counties

San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevadas

Pacific Northest

Puget Sound

Hood River, Oregon

Willamette Valley, Oregon

Central Washington

Montana and the Rocky Mountain Foothills

And so...