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

Hardcover • 2013 • English

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

By Amy Stewart

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries. Of all the extraordinary and obscure plants that have been fermented and distilled, a few are dangerous, some are downright biz...Show more

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ISBN

9781616200466

Publisher

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Hardcover

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