The provisionment system that met many of the needs of metropolitan Manila allowed the urban population to grow from perhaps 200,000 in 1850 to 800,000–900,000 in 1941 to megacity size today. Intensive inquiry into the changing social, nutritional, commercial, and geographical aspects of this system is found in Daniel F. Doeppers’s Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945. The present volume extends this inquiry to the subject of alcoholic beverages. In Manila their consumption builds upon ancient roots. Further, one of the greater changes in “food” supply and consumption during our period was the increasing replacement of alcohol from hundreds of provincial artisanal stills to that of a small number of urban industrial distilleries.

1. Alcoholic beverage industry ? Philippines ? History ? 1860-1941. 2. Distilling industries ? Philippines ? Economic aspects.