Tips on growing and making drinks with herbs, fruits, and veggies. Thirsty yet? in the drunken botanist, amy stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, inspiration, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, and sheer desperation, flowers, trees, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries.
This fascinating concoction of biology, history, chemistry, etymology, and mixology--with more than fifty drink recipes and growing tips for gardeners--will make you the most popular guest at any cocktail party. A new york times BestsellerSake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn.
From the catalog Over 50 cocktail recipes.
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Dangerous plants of the world. It’s an a to z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. In wicked plants, stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. Drawing on history, alarm, science, medicine, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.
You’ll learn which plants to avoid like exploding shrubs, which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome like the vine that ate the South, and which ones have been killing for centuries like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln's mother.
Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail
Liquid intelligence is about satisfying your curiosity and refining your technique, from red-hot pokers to the elegance of an old-fashioned. Beautiful hardcover edition. Whether you’re in search of astounding drinks or a one-of-a-kind journey into the next generation of cocktail making, Liquid Intelligence is the ultimate standard―one that no bartender or drink enthusiast should be without.
For devotees seeking the cutting edge, chapters on liquid nitrogen, chitosan/gellan washing, and the applications of a centrifuge expand the boundaries of traditional cocktail craft. Arnold’s book is the beginning of a new method of making drinks, a problem-solving approach grounded in attentive observation and creative techniques.
. 450 color photographs Dangerous plants of the world. Featuring more than 120 recipes and nearly 450 color photographs, liquid intelligence begins with the simple―how ice forms and how to make crystal-clear cubes in your own freezer―and then progresses into advanced techniques like clarifying cloudy lime juice with enzymes, nitro-muddling fresh basil to prevent browning, orange, and infusing vodka with coffee, or peppercorns.
Practical tips for preparing drinks by the pitcher, making homemade sodas, and building a specialized bar in your own home are exactly what drink enthusiasts need to know.
Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails
But more than just a collection of recipes, death & co is also a complete cocktail education, a complete guide to buying and using spirits, with information on the theory and philosophy of drink making, and step-by-step instructions for mastering key bartending techniques. W w norton Company. Filled with beautiful, evocative photography; illustrative charts and infographics; and colorful essays about the characters who fill the bar each night; Death & Co—like its namesake bar—is bold, elegant, and setting the pace for mixologists around the world.
Boasting a supremely talented and creative bar staff—the best in the industry—Death & Co is also the birthplace of some of the modern era’s most iconic drinks, Naked and Famous, such as the Oaxaca Old-Fashioned, and the Conference. Destined to become a definitive reference on craft cocktails, Death & Co features more than 500 of the bar’s most innovative and sought-after cocktails.
Beautiful hardcover edition. Dangerous plants of the world. Death co Modern Classic Cocktails. Since its opening in 2006, death & co has been a must-visit destination for serious drinkers and cocktail enthusiasts, and the winner of every major industry award—including America’s Best Cocktail Bar and Best Cocktail Menu at the Tales of the Cocktail convention.
The Curious Bartender: The artistry and alchemy of creating the perfect cocktail
Botanical drawings & etchings. Beautiful hardcover edition. Also included is a reference section, detailing all the techniques and equipment you will need, making this an essential and exciting anthology for the cocktail enthusiast. Showcasing a selection of classic cocktails, Tristan explains their intriguing origins, introducing the colorful characters who inspired or created them and how they were intertwined within their historical context.
Dangerous plants of the world. Moving on, he reinvents each drink from his laboratory, adding contemporary twists to breathe fresh life into these vintage classics. Death co Modern Classic Cocktails. The curious bartender The artistry and alchemy of creating the perfect cocktail. Most of all, mixing a sublime cocktail is an art.
The Dead Rabbit Drinks Manual: Secret Recipes and Barroom Tales from Two Belfast Boys Who Conquered the Cocktail World
Along with the recipes and their photos, this stylish and handsome book includes photographs from the bar itself so readers are able to take a peek into the classic world of Dead Rabbit. The dead rabbit drinks manual secret Recipes and Barroom Tales from Two Belfast Boys Who Conquered the Cocktail World.
Dangerous plants of the world. There are also recipes for communal punches as well as an entire chapter on absinthe. Beautiful hardcover edition. The curious bartender The artistry and alchemy of creating the perfect cocktail. W w norton Company. Now, which, the critically acclaimed bar has its first cocktail book, along with its inventive recipes, The Dead Rabbit Drinks Manual, also details founder Sean Muldoon and bar manager Jack McGarry’s inspiring rags-to-riches story that began in Ireland and has brought them to the top of the cocktail world.
Botanical drawings & etchings. Death co Modern Classic Cocktails.
Handcrafted Bitters: Simple Recipes for Artisanal Bitters and the Cocktails That Love Them
The curious bartender The artistry and alchemy of creating the perfect cocktail. Complete with a foreword by doug dalton, owner of future bars--including San Francisco's Bourbon & Branch, and Swig--and expert advice from the founders of Scrappy's Bitters and Hella Bitters, Local Edition, Handcrafted Bitters is your complete guide to making your own bitters.
. And the cocktails that love them. The dead rabbit drinks manual secret Recipes and Barroom Tales from Two Belfast Boys Who Conquered the Cocktail World. Botanical drawings & etchings. Beautiful hardcover edition. With more bitters recipes than any other book--and twice as many cocktail recipes to try them out--Handcrafted Bitters belongs on the shelf of every cocktail enthusiast, kitchen crafter, foodie, and happy drunk.
Death co Modern Classic Cocktails.
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
Bitters a spirited history of a Classic Cure All with Cocktails Recipes and Formulas. Botanical drawings & etchings. The curious bartender The artistry and alchemy of creating the perfect cocktail. W w norton Company. Author and bitters enthusiast brad thomas parsons traces the history of the world’s most storied elixir, from its earliest “snake oil” days to its near evaporation after Prohibition to its ascension as a beloved and at times obsessed-over ingredient on the contemporary bar scene.
And few ingredients have as rich a history or serve as fundamental a role in our beverage heritage as bitters. Dangerous plants of the world. Handcrafted bitters simple Recipes for Artisanal Bitters and the Cocktails That Love Them. Part recipe book, part barman’s manifesto, Bitters is a celebration of good cocktails made well, part project guide, and of the once-forgotten but blessedly rediscovered virtues of bitters.
Also featured are more than seventy cocktail recipes that showcase bitters’ diversity and versatility: classics like the Manhattan if you ever get one without bitters, old-guard favorites like the Martinez, contemporary drinks from Parsons’s own repertoire like the Shady Lane, send it back, plus one-of-a-kind libations from the country’s most pioneering bartenders.
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects
With wit, and exacting research, style, Stewart has uncovered the most terrifying and titillatingstories of bugs gone wild. It’s an a to z of insect enemies, insects eating your tomatoes “gardener’s dirty dozen”, interspersed with sections thatexplore bugs with kinky sex lives “She’s Just Not That Into You”, creatures lurking in the cupboard“Fear No Weevil”, and phobiasthat feed our sometimes irrational responses to bugs “Have No Fear”.
Intricate and strangely beautiful etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs capturediabolical bugs of all shapes and sizes in this mixture of history, murder, science, and intriguethat begins―but doesn’t end―in your own backyard Dangerous plants of the world. Botanical drawings & etchings. The curious bartender The artistry and alchemy of creating the perfect cocktail.
Death co Modern Classic Cocktails. In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, infect, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes―creaturesthat infest, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. Handcrafted bitters simple Recipes for Artisanal Bitters and the Cocktails That Love Them.
The dead rabbit drinks manual secret Recipes and Barroom Tales from Two Belfast Boys Who Conquered the Cocktail World.
Proof: The Science of Booze
New york times humans have been perfecting alcohol production for ten thousand years, but scientists are just starting to distill the chemical reactions behind the perfect buzz. Named a best science book of 2014 by amazon, the guardian, wired, and nbC Winner of the 2014 Gourmand Award for Best Spirits Book in the United States Finalist for the 2015 PEN/E.
O. The dead rabbit drinks manual secret Recipes and Barroom Tales from Two Belfast Boys Who Conquered the Cocktail World. Botanical drawings & etchings. If you’ve ever wondered how your drink arrived in your glass, or what it will do to you, Proof makes an unparalleled drinking companion. Handcrafted bitters simple Recipes for Artisanal Bitters and the Cocktails That Love Them.
Above all, it makes you understand how deeply human it is to take a drink. Wall street Journal Dangerous plants of the world.
The PDT Cocktail Book: The Complete Bartender's Guide from the Celebrated Speakeasy
Sterling Publishing NY. Now, pdt's innovative operator and mixmaster, Jim Meehan, too, is revolutionizing bar books, offering all 304 cocktail recipes available at PDT plus behind-the-scenes secrets. Bitters a spirited history of a Classic Cure All with Cocktails Recipes and Formulas. From his bar design, food, it's all here, and spirits, and equipment to his techniques, tools, stunningly illustrated by Chris Gall.
Dangerous plants of the world. W w norton Company. The curious bartender The artistry and alchemy of creating the perfect cocktail. Beautifully illustrated, beautifully designed, and beautifully crafted--just like its namesake--this is the ultimate bar book by NYC's most meticulous bartender. To say that pdT is a unique bar is an understatement.
It recalls the era of hidden prohibition speakeasies: to gain access, step into a phone booth, you walk into a raucous hot dog stand, and get permission to enter the serene cocktail lounge.