The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks Non-Fiction Grasses are also among the

Grasses are also among the most difficult plants to identify

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•Common and scientific names

His vision became the spark for preservation and the use of the native plants

and includes an appendix on plant taxonomy

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks Non-Fiction Grasses are also among theA 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