The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Greatest Drinks · Book by Amy Stewart literary collection grains and vegetables

grains and vegetables

Wild Atlantic Wakame (Alaria esculenta) is very similar to traditional Japanese wakame (found in miso soup)

Folklore expert Carolyn Turgeon also includes profiles of true modern mermaids

Browse through the illustrations and marvel at a mastery of craft that evokes echoes of Bosch

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Greatest Drinks · Book by Amy Stewart literary collection grains and vegetablesThe only things this book is missing is seaweed! But no matter Amy Stewart's "The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks" is full of a 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. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane,