Looking forward to a long hot summer now taking things easy. While writing this review, I was sipping a good red port and musing over all the great anecdotes in this book. It is well written and easy to read and pick bits and pieces out of the recipes work well too. It is truly a great read. Waaaayyyy back in my undergrad days, I fulfilled my science requirement in part by taking classes like Practical Botany and Environmental Plant Biology. I am so thrilled to get my book today. A sure-fire winning gift, or read it yourself, for anyone interested in the raw materials - from flavouring to bulk ingredients - behind drinks from around the world. "The Drunken Botanist" uncovers the enlightening botanical history and the fascinating science and chemistry of over 1. Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2019. I love books like this, but they do tend to be A LOT and therefore I would only recommend this book to series nonfiction lovers; OR..people who love the idea of where their food and drink comes from. The first version, published in 2007, received a James Beard Award for its rich dive into the life and work of Jerry Thomas, a bartender credited with popularizing cocktails in the mid-1800s. The cocktails included in this book are, as compared to proper "cocktail books", fairly subpar and simple in nature. The result is intoxicating but in a fresh, happy, healthy way." “This book will give you a great foundational knowledge from which to build on and will make every cocktail book you read afterward, easier to understand in the grand scheme of things.”, One of the newest additions to the cocktail book landscape is “Cocktail Codex,” penned by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan of the Death & Co family. Page will suggest dozens of ingredients, including fennel, cranberry, ginger, sage, and more. 2. Bought it for a gift and decided to keep it. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. She and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books. Mastering Coffee: Awaken the Barista Within You and Make Exotic Coffee Drinks at Ho... Runes for Beginners: A Guide to Reading Runes in Divination, Rune Magic, and the Me... BEE NATIVE! The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks by Amy Stewart. Bought on a whim, but delighted. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Gorgeous recipe's with easy instruction and delicious flavours. Also of practical interest to gardeners, botanists - even economists, with some interesting insights on innovative uses for local crop resources. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. She delves into the botany of the plants and how different species can contribute different flavors (or must be eschewed entirely due to toxicity or simply unpleasant tastes), the history of the plants and their mutations over the centuries, archeological findings supporting speculations about the origins of some favorite beverages, recipes for DIY, and growing tips for would-be gardeners. All thoughts are pulled from either DeGroff’s experiences behind the bar or his vast library of vintage cocktail books. Amy Stewart does a fantastic job bringing the botanist's perspective on the organisms that give us all of our favorite drinks. about the illuminated and unillumnated palnt? If you like very British, concise, simple recipes, then you’ll love Geoff Wells’ Authentic English Recipes series. The author is at pains to tell us that her coverage is by no means exhaustive, but it is comprehensive. Nothing super surprising or interesting for anyone who's already interested in brewing and gardening. No Kindle device required. I highly recommend it. Nature seems to love making alcohol; take any plant with sugars present in it (any fruit and a lot of grains) and let it sit out where wild yeasts can land in it, give it a little time, and alcohol will appear. In it, author Amy Stewart explores the herbs, flowers, fruits, and trees that make up our favorite spirits and liqueurs—from the grain of rice from which sake is born to the agave that turns into tequila. This book goes into meticulous detail in listing all the plants, trees, herbs, nuts, flowers, spices and pretty much anything else that has ever been fermented and distilled to make alcohol. This isn’t a book to stash behind your bar: measuring 12 x 10 x 2 inches and weighing 8 pounds, the book’s gorgeous design deserves a spot on your coffee table (and makes an excellent gift for cocktail aficionados). Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects, Garden to Glass: Grow Your Drinks from the Ground Up, The Joy of Mixology, Revised and Updated Edition: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft, Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions, Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas, Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails, with More than 500 Recipes, Handcrafted Bitters: Simple Recipes for Artisanal Bitters and the Cocktails that Love Them, Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail, AudioFile Earphones Award winner Coleen Marlo has earned numerous Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards and won an Audie Award for her narration of Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga. ), Fool’s watercress, Common hogweed seeds, Blackthorn leaf & squished sloes, Brambles, Rosebay willowherb flower, Sweet cicely, Cow parsley, Sorrel, Yarrow, Hawthorn – haws & leaves, Dandelion flower & leaf, Angelica seed, Rosehips. This book is truly packed full of botanical knowledge when it comes to alcoholic drinks. . As a graduate student who studies plant biology and also enjoys a good drink, Amy Stewart’s “The Drunken Botanist” is my kind of book. She is based in Toronto. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2019, Absolute best cocktail book I’ve ever read. Stewart tells how agaves are harvested, what that flavor in Amaretto di Saronno is (nope, not almonds), what kind of bugs find their way into what liquour and gives comparison charts for the multiples of say, violet liqueurs.