The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks Non-Fiction •Common and scientific names

•Common and scientific names

also features over 180 color illustrations

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but also thriving sanctuaries for wildlife

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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks Non-Fiction •Common and scientific namesA New York Times Bestseller 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