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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create The World's Great Drinks

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create The World's Great Drinks

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Pour yourself a cocktail, settle in, and learn all about these boozy botanical brews when you read though this cool new The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create The World's Great Drinks by Amy Stewart. This intoxicatingly interesting book chronicles over 150 plants, trees, flowers, and fruits that are the root of all your favorite booze concoctions and includes 50 drink recipes, growing tips for thirsty gardeners, and much more. When you finish, you'll be armed with plenty of refreshing new factoid banter to share at your next cocktail party.

Official Synopsis

Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries.

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