The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
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...
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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.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781604694765 (1604694769)
ASIN: 1604694769
Publish date: 2013
Publisher: Timber Press
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Cookbooks,
Cooking,
Foodie,
Gardening
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.
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