Slow Drinks [Hardcover]

WINNER OF THE 2024 JAMES BEARD AWARD FOR BEST BEVERAGE WITH RECIPES BOOK

Slow Drinksteaches home cooks, industry pros, homebrewers, and foragers how to transform botanical ingredients—whether foraged or purchased from the store—into incredibly unique beverages and cocktails.

Organized by season,Slow Drinksdemonstrates how to make drinks that tell a story of botany, history, culture, and terroir, while honoring beverage traditions both old and new. Each season will highlight eight new ingredients with recipes that build on a basics chapter and teach readers how to interchangeably usemaster recipesto make their own meads, country wines, beers, sodas, tinctures, shrubs, and more.

Beautifully photographed by the author’s wife, Katie Childs, andillustrated by Molly Reader,Slow Drinkswill be the definitivebotanist’s guide to mixologythat can live in your basket on a foraging trip, or on the coffee table as a conversation piece.

This book is for bartenders, do-it-yourselfers, foodies, homesteaders, homebrewers, food activists, and anyone looking to dive into the world of botanical drink making.

"Danny Childs takes beverage making to a whole new level by drawing upon his ethnobotanical, foraging, and bartending experience.?His innovative?approach to drinks of all kinds provides a superb complement to the Slow Food movement". -Patrick E. McGovern, author of?Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages?"It turns out that years of ethnobotanical research in the Peruvian Amazon and tlÓ&