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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
By Amy Stewart
Hardcover
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By Amy Stewart
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A fascinating, entertaining exploration of the plants behind alcoholic beverages, blending botany, history, science, gardening, and cocktail culture—now updated to include a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes.
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 her...
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