Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. She is the cofounder of the popular blog Garden Rant and is a contributing editor at Fine Gardening magazine. She and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books.
"Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem exciting, even a
little dangerous." --The New York Times "Many boozy books have been
published over the years, spilling over with fun facts about
absinthe, grog and bathtub gin. What makes Stewart's book different
is her infectious enthusiasm for the plants, their uses, their
history, and the botanists who roamed the earth finding them. The
result is intoxicating but in a fresh, happy, healthy way." --USA
Today "The Drunken Botanist is a sipping book, not a quaffing book,
best enjoyed in moderation...Part Ripley's Believe It or
Not, part compendium on the order of 'Schott's Original
Miscellany' and part botanical garden tour, albeit with a
curated cocktail party at the end . . . a companionable reference
and whimsical recitation of historical-botanical trivia, with a
little tart debunking." --The Washington Post "Sipping an evening
cocktail while flipping through this fine volume, I discovered that
Ms. Stewart knew how to change a run-of-the-mill cocktail into an
intriguing one." --The Wall Street Journal "A book that makes
familiar drinks seem new again...Through this horticultural lens, a
mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants." --NPR's Morning
Edition
"Fascinating, well researched and instructive -- with appealing
recipes too." --Rosie Schaap, New York Times
"Gardening can be an intoxicating hobby, especially if the botany
is booze-related." --The Associated Press
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