The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Greatest Drinks · Book by Amy Stewart literary collection We live in an era

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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Greatest Drinks · Book by Amy Stewart literary collection We live in an eraThe 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,