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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks Compact disc - 2013

by Amy Stewart; Narrated by Coleen Marlo


About this book

This quirky guide explains the chemistry and botanical history of over 150 plants, trees, flowers and fruits, showing how they form the bases of our favourite cocktails. Amy Stewart offers gardeners growing tips and provides cocktail enthusiasts with 50 drink recipes, as well as a rounded knowledge of the processes and plants which go into popular concoctions.

From the publisher

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 medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers, trees, and fruits (and even a few fungi).Some of the most extraordinary and obscure plants have been fermented and distilled, and they each represent a unique cultural contribution to global drinking traditions and our history. Molasses was an essential ingredient of American independence when outrage over a mandate to buy British rather than French molasses for New World rum-making helped kindle the American Revolution. Captain James Cook harvested the young, green tips of spruce trees to make a vitamin C-rich beer that cured his crew of scurvy-a recipe that Jane Austen enjoyed so much that she used it as a plot point in Emma.With over fifty drink recipes, growing tips for gardeners, and advice that carries Stewart's trademark wit, this is the perfect listen for gardeners and cocktail aficionados alike.

Details

  • Title The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
  • Author Amy Stewart; Narrated by Coleen Marlo
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Unabridged; 10.2
  • Pages 615
  • Volumes 8
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HighBridge Audio
  • Date 2013-03
  • ISBN 9781622311392 / 1622311396
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 6 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (15.24 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Audiobooks, Cocktails
  • Dewey Decimal Code 581.632