The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails The Novel

The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails The NovelShortlisted for the Andr Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the worlds foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The bittersweet cocktail dating to the early 1900s is made of equal parts gin, sweet vermouth and Campari. Gin takes its name and flavour from the juniper tree, which medieval doctors burned to ward off bubonic plague and other miasmas. Vermouth comes from the

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