Title -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Drink of the Slavs -- I The Russian Story -- II Russian Daily Life in Vodka -- III The Official Birth of Vodka in 1894 -- IV Soviet Russia -- V Vodka in Poland and Ukraine -- Part 2 Vodka in the West -- I Smirnoff to Absolut: The Vodka Houses -- II Vodka in the UK and the USA -- III James Bond and Films -- IV Vodka Today -- Part 3 Drinking and Preparing Vodka -- The Pryzhov Test: A Tasting Guide -- Preparing Vodka -- Vodka Cocktails and Vodka Recipes -- Vodka Drinking Vessels -- Part 4 Literature, Music and Vodka -- I Russian Writers: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pryzhov -- II Anton Chekhov -- III Texts -- IV Vodka and Music -- Appendix -- How Smirnov became Smirnoff: A History of a Vodka Dynasty -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.