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

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

Amy Stewart with Coleen Marlo (Narrator)

10 hours, 17 minutes first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history science informative lighthearted slow-paced

Description

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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