Friday

BYCU Kontent from the Kindle

Summer is coming, and with it comes gin and tonics. When I first abandoned beer, I turned to gin, but it occasionally gave me headaches, so I switched to vodka, which I've really come to enjoy. After reading this passage from The Drunken Botanist, however, I'm itching to buy some Tanqueray:

How can anyone with even a passing interest in botany not be fascinated by this stuff?” I said. “Look at the ingredients. Juniper! That's a conifer. Coriander, which is, of course, the fruit of a cilantro plant. All gins have citrus peel in them. This one has lavender buds, too. Gin is nothing but an alcohol extraction of all these crazy plants from around the world–tree bark and leaves and seeds and flowers and fruit.” We had arrived at the liquor store by then, and I was gesturing wildly at the shelves around us. “This is horticulture! In all of these bottles!”