This book looks at how something made from water, sugar and soda became big business but also became deeply important to people; fizzy drinks' symbolic meanings are far more complex than the water, gas and sugar from which they are made.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. On the Way to Fizzy Drinks
• 2. Health and Pleasure: Soda Fountains
• 3. Around the World in a Soda Bottle
• 4. Big Soda
• 5. The War(s) Against Soda
• 6. Plus ça Change
• Recipes
• Select Bibliography
• Websites and Associations
• Acknowledgements
• Photo Acknowledgements