Judith Levin's Soda and Fizzy Drinks is another entry in the "Edible" series, all global histories of particular food items. Levin discusses the development of fizzy drinks and also their modern popularity, what they mean to people, and why they keep coming out with weird seasonal flavours (basically, to grab people's attention and keep up demand, which isn't a surprise).

I was surprised to learn about flavours of soda like celery, turkey and gravy, etc, and not surprised by much else such as the history of Coca-Cola and various reactions to Coca-Cola like Inca Cola. I was surprised that (according to Levin) Coca-Cola is viewed as pretty much holy by the Maya people. (Mostly so far in my external reading inspired by this book I've found sources discussing it as a part of diet in Mexico, and discussing changes brought by "coca-colonisation", but less about it actually being a part of religious ceremonies.)

As usual with this series, the book is illustrated (sometimes making reference of the images and sometimes not really), and has a bunch of recipes in the back.