Slow Drinks

Slow Drinks offers a refined guide for home cooks, professionals, home brewers, and foragers to craft distinctive beverages and cocktails using botanical ingredients, whether wild-harvested or store-bought. Structured by season, the book explores eight key ingredients per chapter, weaving narratives of botany, history, culture, and terroir while honoring both traditional and contemporary beverage practices. Beginning with foundational recipes, readers learn to create meads, country wines, beers, sodas, tinctures, shrubs, and more, with versatile master formulas adaptable to personal taste. Elegantly photographed by Katie Childs and illustrated by Molly Reader, Slow Drinks stands as an essential botanist’s reference for mixology—equally at home in your foraging kit or displayed as a captivating conversation piece.