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The Perfect Tonic - The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails (Hardcover)
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The Perfect Tonic - The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R402
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An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from
one of the world's 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 German word for wormwood, a 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. Now, in The Perfect Tonic, 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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