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

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

Amy Stewart

362 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 a Dutch physician added oil of juniper to a clear spirit, believing that juniper berries would cure kidney d...

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