Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

"At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the cocktail book of the year, if not the decade." --Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist and Wicke…

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