Drunken Botanist Druidry We experience scents not only

We experience scents not only in the here and now but also filtered through the lens of our past

proving to himself and others its transmutative powers

282 color pages with a color fold-out and a huge idex

and how people still honor them today with this innovative and extensive encyclopedia

Drunken Botanist Druidry We experience scents not onlySake 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 been fermented and distilled,