The Drunken Botanist

March 19, 2013

Cocktail Hour Giveaway: <i><b>The Drunken Botanist</b></i>

Cocktail Hour Giveaway: The Drunken Botanist

 

March 13, 2013

A Real Page-Turner, served over ice

A Real Page-Turner, served over ice

What’s one of benefits of publishing a book called The Drunken Botanist? A care package of liquor from the author, of course. (Liquor care packages are the very best kind of care …

March 6, 2013

Our book sommelier finds a fine vintage

Our book sommelier finds a fine vintage

Like fine wines, some books just get better with age. Our resident liquor afficionado, gardening expert, bookstore owner, and author, Amy Stewart, has found a fine vintage in the 1858 publication of …

March 4, 2013

<b>Happy Hour Giveaway Monday:</b> <i>The Drunken Botanist</i>

Happy Hour Giveaway Monday: The Drunken Botanist

Welcome to Happy Hour at Algonquin Books! We have a two-for-one special this evening on today’s Giveaway Monday book, The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart The randomly chosen winner of today’s Giveaway …

February 27, 2013

It’s OK to be bitters (with a cherry on top)

It’s OK to be bitters (with a cherry on top)

Amy Stewart is not a bitter woman. She’s quite delightful, actually. But she’s gone totally ga-ga for DIY kits for making your own bitters on her DrunkenBotanist.com blog. Don’t know much about …

February 20, 2013

<b>Message in a Bottle</b> </br>from Amy Stewart

Message in a Bottle
from Amy Stewart

Writing a book on the plants that create the liquors we drink sounds like a research dream in some respects. And Amy Stewart certainly won’t disagree. In researching her new book, The …