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The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer Wine Spir

Author: Camper English.

The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer Wine Spir

Author: Camper English.

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Item #: D41617
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2021
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008394578
Shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award 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 flavor from the juniper tree, which medieval doctors burned to ward off bubonic plague and other miasmas. 'Vermouth' comes from the German word f... More
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Shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award 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 flavor from the juniper tree, which medieval doctors burned to ward off bubonic plague and other miasmas. 'Vermouth' comes from the German word for wormwood, an herb famous for its ability to rid the body of intestinal parasites. Campari is a brand of liqueur dating to 1860 with a secret recipe probably containing gentian (effective against indigestion) and rhubarb root (used as a laxative). The perfect cocktail of curative ingredients is now self-prescribed as an aperitif. The intertwined stories of medicine and alcohol stretch back to the ancient world, and involve alchemy, madness and monks, not to mention microbiology, biochemistry and germ theory. Camper English reveals how and why the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were, until surprisingly recently, one and the same.


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