The Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s annual fundraiser is happening online this year, with all kinds of delightful things up for auction. I’m donating a Drunken Botanist Book Club in a Box, which includes the following: Ten personally inscribed copies of The Drunken Botanist, for you and your BFFs A cocktail recipe created by me just [...]
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Amy Stewart on June 12, 2013 at 8:25 am This post has no responses.
Earlier this year at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, I was hanging out with Jessi Bloom of NW Bloom (and author of Free-Range Chicken Gardens) in her exhibit booth. She had brought a selection of edible landscaping plants — reliable, hardworking shrubs, vines, trees and the like that...
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Amy Stewart on May 28, 2013 at 6:44 am This post has 7 responses.
…and Buffalo. And Brooklyn. See you there? As always, please check with the venue before heading out to confirm details. Also, there are lots more events coming up around the country–go here to see the complete list. June 06 2013 06:30 PM — The Horticultural Society of New York,...
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Amy Stewart on May 22, 2013 at 8:05 am This post has 2 responses.
Okay! A few more tour dates for you. See you out there? Go here if you want to see everything that’s coming up. And as always, check these venues for full details. April 24 2013 — Culinary Arts & Letters, Chapel Hill, NC Special cocktail event with The...
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Amy Stewart on April 24, 2013 at 3:03 am This post has 5 responses.
Yes, I am still on the road! It’s hard to believe, I know. I can hardly believe it myself. So here are some tour dates, and the complete list, if you’d like to see it, is here. As always, check details with the venue before heading out. April 17...
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Amy Stewart on April 17, 2013 at 4:44 am This post has 5 responses.
Why, yes! It’s another week of Drunken Botanist tour dates? Are you out there, Milwaukee people? Miami people? Austin? Phoenix? Well, if you’re interested, all the tour dates are here, and as always, check with the venue to confirm event details before heading out. April 10 2013 07:00...
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Amy Stewart on April 10, 2013 at 4:30 am This post has 4 responses.
And on it goes! All Drunken Botanist tour dates are listed here, but this is what I’ve got going on this week. Please do check details with the venue before heading out. And then–please do head out! I’d love to see you. And you. All of you, really. ...
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Amy Stewart on April 3, 2013 at 4:11 am This post has 3 responses.
If you’re in Portland, Seattle, or Bellingham, I’d love to see you this week. All the tour dates are online here, but this week’s stops include: March 27 2013 07:30 PM — Powell’s (Burnside location), Portland, OR With a special appearance by House Spirits Distillery‘s Christian Krogstad, who...
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Amy Stewart on March 27, 2013 at 4:19 am This post has 2 responses.
Vodka week? Isn’t every week vodka week? Yeah, well. I’m still hanging out on the West Coast, so if you’re in the neighborhood, I hope you’ll drop by. Complete list of tour dates can be found here, and please do check with the venue before heading out in case...
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Amy Stewart on March 20, 2013 at 3:47 am This post has 6 responses.
Okay, folks! Your devoted correspondent is on a book tour for the next couple of months. I’d love to stay and chat, but instead I’m going to furnish you with a list of tour dates and ask you to come out and fill a seat, badger your friends into...
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Amy Stewart on March 13, 2013 at 6:11 am This post has one response.
Imagine my excitement when this came into our bookstore. The full title of the book is Fermented Liquors: a Treatise on Brewing, Distilling, Rectifying, and Manufacturing of Sugars, Wines, Spirits, and All Known Liquors, Including Cider and Vinegar: Also, Hundreds of Valuable Directions in Medicine, Metallurgy, Pyrotechny, and the...
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Amy Stewart on March 6, 2013 at 4:35 am This post has 9 responses.
I’m totally in love with these DIY kits for making your own bitters. The problem with making your own bitters is that some of the spices are expensive and difficult to track down. (You cannot get gentian root in the spice section at Safeway.) So this company called Dash...
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Amy Stewart on February 27, 2013 at 4:21 am This post has 2 responses.
I’m in Seattle this week at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Are you there too? Come see me! February 21 2013 03:15 PM — Northwest Flower & Garden Show, Seattle, WA The Backyard Bartender: Secrets to Mixing Creative Cocktails February 22 2013 01:30 PM — Northwest Flower &...
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Amy Stewart on February 20, 2013 at 3:56 am This post has 8 responses.
One day last year, a mysterious courier arrived at my house. (Okay, the courier was not so very mysterious. She was driving plants to my local garden centers from Oregon-based Log House Plants.) Anyway, she had a special delivery for me from Log House’s owner, Alice Doyle. A crazy-cool...
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Amy Stewart on February 13, 2013 at 4:29 am This post has 12 responses.
Following up on last week’s post about the construction of this here cocktail garden, I’ve got a few more pictures to share, along with some lessons learned. But first, this just in! My bookstore is now taking pre-orders for signed or inscribed copies of The Drunken Botanist. We hope...
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Amy Stewart on February 6, 2013 at 4:11 am This post has 9 responses.
Last week I posted garden designer Susan Morrison’s lovely hand-drawn plans of my cocktail garden, which she designed in response to my desperate plea for help. You can see the final results in the February issue of Sunset magazine, but maybe you’d like to see where we started. Because...
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Amy Stewart on January 30, 2013 at 4:02 am This post has 12 responses.
So! Sunset magazine stopped by a few months ago. It was great fun hanging out with a couple of pros all day and watching them work. (Oh, and there was some mixing of cocktails, too.) Anyway, you can see the results in the February issue of Sunset, which is...
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Amy Stewart on January 23, 2013 at 3:48 am This post has 5 responses.
So last year I planted this cocktail garden. It was a huge undertaking that I wrote not a word about, in part because I was too busy doing it. The space was one of those typically difficult side yards found around a lot of old houses: as little...
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Amy Stewart on December 26, 2012 at 4:28 am This post has 7 responses.
This week begins a month (more or less) of eating—and drinking. Thanksgiving looms large, but after that there is also a continual round of work parties, holiday dinners, cookie-making parties, and excuses to drink Tom & Jerrys. The gift-buying part of Christmas might be a drag, but I like...
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Elizabeth Licata on November 19, 2012 at 8:45 am This post has 5 responses.
I don’t know what it’s like in your neck of the woods, but around these parts we still have a few good tomatoes left at the farmers market. So that’s what I’m calling this drink–The Farmers Market. Hurry up and make a batch while you still can. The Farmers...
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Amy Stewart on October 10, 2012 at 12:26 pm This post has 8 responses.
