The Drunken Botanist

The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition

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<div><p><b>The <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated edition</b>—<b>now including a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes. This fascinating, go-totext about the plants that make our drinks is the ideal gift book for every cocktail aficionado, the perfect drinks book for every plant-lover.</b><br><br> Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In <i>The Drunken Botanist</i>, 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.</p><p>Of all the extraordinary and obscure plants that have been fermented and distilled, a few are dangerous, some are downright bizarre, and one is as ancient as dinosaurs—but each represents a unique cultural contribution to our global drinking traditions and our history.</p><p>This charming concoction of biology, chemistry, history, etymology, and mixology—with delightful drawings, tasty cocktail recipes, and fun factoids throughout—will make you the most popular guest at any cocktail party. <br><br><b>“A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again . . . Through this horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants.”—NPR's <i>Morning Edition</i><br><br> “Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem exciting, even a little dangerous.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b></p></div>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781616200466

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

210 x 160 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Verlag / Hersteller

Workman Publishing