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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition
Amy Stewart
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Description for The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition
hardcover.
This quirky guide explains the chemistry and botanical history of over 150 plants, trees, flowers and fruits, showing how they form the bases of our favourite cocktails. Amy Stewart offers gardeners growing tips and provides cocktail enthusiasts with 50 drink recipes, as well as a rounded knowledge of the processes and plants which go into popular concoctions.
This quirky guide explains the chemistry and botanical history of over 150 plants, trees, flowers and fruits, showing how they form the bases of our favourite cocktails. Amy Stewart offers gardeners growing tips and provides cocktail enthusiasts with 50 drink recipes, as well as a rounded knowledge of the processes and plants which go into popular concoctions.
Product Details
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781616200466
SKU
V9781616200466
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5
About Amy Stewart
Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. She is the cofounder of the popular blog Garden Rant and is a contributing editor at Fine Gardening magazine. She and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books.
Reviews for The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition
Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem exciting, even a little dangerous.
The New York Times Many boozy books have been published over the years, spilling over with fun facts about absinthe, grog and bathtub gin. What makes Stewart's book different is her infectious enthusiasm for the plants, their uses, their history, and the botanists who roamed the earth finding them. The result is intoxicating but in a fresh, happy, healthy way.
USA Today The Drunken Botanist is a sipping book, not a quaffing book, best enjoyed in moderation...Part Ripley's Believe It or Not, part compendium on the order of 'Schott's Original Miscellany' and part botanical garden tour, albeit with a curated cocktail party at the end . . . a companionable reference and whimsical recitation of historical-botanical trivia, with a little tart debunking.
The Washington Post Sipping an evening cocktail while flipping through this fine volume, I discovered that Ms. Stewart knew how to change a run-of-the-mill cocktail into an intriguing one.
The Wall Street Journal A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again...Through this horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants.
NPR's Morning Edition Fascinating, well researched and instructive
with appealing recipes too.
Rosie Schaap, New York Times Gardening can be an intoxicating hobby, especially if the botany is booze-related.
The Associated Press
The New York Times Many boozy books have been published over the years, spilling over with fun facts about absinthe, grog and bathtub gin. What makes Stewart's book different is her infectious enthusiasm for the plants, their uses, their history, and the botanists who roamed the earth finding them. The result is intoxicating but in a fresh, happy, healthy way.
USA Today The Drunken Botanist is a sipping book, not a quaffing book, best enjoyed in moderation...Part Ripley's Believe It or Not, part compendium on the order of 'Schott's Original Miscellany' and part botanical garden tour, albeit with a curated cocktail party at the end . . . a companionable reference and whimsical recitation of historical-botanical trivia, with a little tart debunking.
The Washington Post Sipping an evening cocktail while flipping through this fine volume, I discovered that Ms. Stewart knew how to change a run-of-the-mill cocktail into an intriguing one.
The Wall Street Journal A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again...Through this horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants.
NPR's Morning Edition Fascinating, well researched and instructive
with appealing recipes too.
Rosie Schaap, New York Times Gardening can be an intoxicating hobby, especially if the botany is booze-related.
The Associated Press