by Amy Stewart
You don’t have to be a heavy drinker to enjoy this, although it’s probably best if you have an interest of some kind in booze. So many wonderful kinds of booze. There are recipes if you’d like to host a Drunken Botanist party, but largely a lot of very entertaining trivia about all the plants that s...
So fun fact I have a minor in Botany and a fascination with food history. This book was a good cursory look at the foods that we make into alcohol. But it's super cursory, and I would have liked a slightly deeper dig into things. I listened to this as an audiobook because I was interested in the fo...
bookshelves: reference-book Read from June 24 to August 24, 2013 The Drunken Botanist: Colleen Marlowe readsfraudio> nonfic> drink> summer 2013> Set out as reference book, packed with trivia and recipes, this was fun, yet at times, stomach flipping, so I'll just stick with my Friday glass of win...
The Drunken Botanist: Colleen Marlowe readsfraudio> nonfic> drink> summer 2013> refSet out as reference book, packed with trivia and recipes, this was fun, yet at times, stomach flipping, so I'll just stick with my Friday glass of wine with no moths or chicken breasts suspended in the liquid. mmmmmm...
I love any book with recipes for making my own weird cocktails. It's a bonus that this book has really interesting info on the plants that turn us alcoholic for the evening. This one I might have to buy for myself.
Great book! Chock full on information about what it takes to make a drink. As a gardener, I loved reading about how what I grow can be used in my cocktails at the end of the day. Beautifully organised by the base liquor/beer, flavourings, and garnishes, including recipes and growing tips for a few...
I was so relieved to learn that I wouldn't have to root around in emu droppings in order to enjoy a quandong cocktail.Amy Stewart is sort of the Mary Roach of the plant world, but not quite as funny. I'm more of a botanist than a boozer, so I was most interested in the history and folklore of the pl...
Great read and a must buy for a budding or expert mixologist. This book was loaded down with a ton of useful information in regards to utilizing various plants in the creation of drinks. The author wraps it up with some pretty interesting drinks.
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