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

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  • Classic margarita

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: limes; Cointreau; agave syrup; blanco tequila
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  • The French intervention

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: reposado tequila; Lillet Blanc; green Chartreuse; grapefruits
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  • Cider cup

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: hard cider (alcohol); seasonal fruits of your choice; frozen fruit of your choice; ginger beer (alcohol-free)
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  • The Vavilov affair

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: Angostura bitters; applejack; bourbon; apples; sugar cubes
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  • Rusty nail

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: Drambuie; Scotch
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  • Old-fashioned

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: bourbon; sugar cubes; Angostura bitters
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  • Vermouth cocktail

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: dry white vermouth; sweet vermouth; Angostura bitters; orange bitters
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  • Pisco sour

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: pisco; simple syrup; lemons or limes; egg whites; Angostura bitters
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  • Black gold

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: gold vodka; black peppercorns
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  • No. 1 sake cocktail

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: sake; mango-peach juice; vodka; Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur; celery bitters
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  • Manhattan

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: rye whiskey; sweet vermouth; Angostura bitters; Maraschino cherries
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  • Honey drip

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: sorghum syrup; bourbon; Amaretto
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  • Daiquiri

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: white rum; simple syrup; limes
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  • Mojito y mas

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: spearmint; limes; simple syrup; white rum; soda water
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  • Prickly pear syrup

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

    • Ingredients: prickly pear fruit; sugar
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  • Prickly pear sangria

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: fruit of your choice; brandy; Triple Sec; dry white wine; prickly pear syrup
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  • The bay rum

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: dark rum; allspice dram liqueur; Velvet Falernum; Angostura bitters; oranges
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  • Bison grass cocktail

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: zubrowka vodka; dry vermouth; apple juice
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  • Pimm's cup

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: Pimm's; lemonade; cucumbers; oranges; strawberries; spearmint
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  • Dr. Struwe's Suze and soda

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: Suze Saveur d'Autrefois liqueur; soda water
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  • Moscow mule

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: limes; vodka; ginger beer (alcohol-free)
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  • The classic martini

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: gin; dry white vermouth; olives
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  • Dombey's last word

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: verveine liqueur; Luxardo Maraschino liqueur; lemons; lemon verbena; dry gin
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  • Sazerac

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: sugar cubes; Peychaud's bitters; rye whiskey; Herbsaint
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  • Capillaire syrup

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

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: sweet fern; orange flower water; sugar; maidenhair ferns
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Notes about this book

  • ellabee on March 28, 2014

    Per an article in Publishers Weekly, this sold briskly in 2013; halfway through the year it was just behind Smitten Kitchen and Jerusalem! Way behind those two in EYB bookshelves...

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  • ISBN 10 1616200464
  • ISBN 13 9781616200466
  • Linked ISBNs
  • Published Mar 19 2013
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 400
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
  • Imprint Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Publishers Text

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.

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