Recs if you like The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks...
microhistories: “how do you even know that??”
microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"
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How to be Toxic (The Natural Way)
A look at how toxins derived from the world around us are used! We're talking poisons, venoms, any compounds generated by animals, plants, fungi, and other natural processes. Whether used for defending against herbivores (🌱), capturing dinner (🕷️) , or even cutting loose after a long week (🍸), toxins are inescapable!
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Branching Out - Planty Non-Fiction
Non-fiction that focuses on plants. Grow that brain🌻
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Gotta Catch them All! Pokemon to Book Matches
This is a list of books representing every pokemon in HeartGold and SoulSilver (So Johto+Kanto regions). For my sanity, this is one book per evo line. The list with match-ups is in the comments✊🏻💚
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Can I Offer You a Drink?
A mix of non-fiction on drinking history and culture, and tried-and-true recipe books. I will only add a recipe book to this list if I have personally made three delicious cocktails from it and find the instructions clear and useful. Feel free to share your recs for books I should test and history/culture reads, or hit me up for tips on making drinks at home. Please enjoy responsibly.
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pour me a drink
nonfiction on the history and lives of alcoholic beverages & spirits
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foodways
all about food! how we cook, what we eat, why we eat what we eat, how south american food was rebranded as italian, why food chemistry is original witchcraft, the joy of fusion, food politics, why eating and cooking is a labor rights issue, so gendered, and so communal.
happy eating!
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