- EAN13
- 9781616201043
- Éditeur
- Algonquin Books
- Date de publication
- 19/03/2013
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
The Drunken Botanist
The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition
Amy STEWART
Algonquin Books
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9781616201043
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The New York Times-bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th
anniversary with an updated edition--now including a guide to planting your
very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes. This
fascinating, go-to text about the plants that make our drinks is the ideal
gift book for every cocktail aficionado, the perfect drinks book for every
plant-lover.
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 bizarre, and one is as
ancient as dinosaurs--but each represents a unique cultural contribution to
our global drinking traditions and our history.
This charming concoction of biology, chemistry, history, etymology, and
mixology--with delightful drawings, tasty cocktail recipes, and fun factoids
throughout--will make you the most popular guest at any cocktail party.
"A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again . . . Through this
horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants."--NPR's
Morning Edition
"Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem exciting, even a little
dangerous." --The New York Times
anniversary with an updated edition--now including a guide to planting your
very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes. This
fascinating, go-to text about the plants that make our drinks is the ideal
gift book for every cocktail aficionado, the perfect drinks book for every
plant-lover.
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 bizarre, and one is as
ancient as dinosaurs--but each represents a unique cultural contribution to
our global drinking traditions and our history.
This charming concoction of biology, chemistry, history, etymology, and
mixology--with delightful drawings, tasty cocktail recipes, and fun factoids
throughout--will make you the most popular guest at any cocktail party.
"A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again . . . Through this
horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants."--NPR's
Morning Edition
"Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem exciting, even a little
dangerous." --The New York Times
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