The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks by Amy Stewart, Amy Stewart

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks

Amy Stewart, Amy Stewart

400 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history science informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers th...

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