The UK title of Doctors and Distillers is A Perfect Tonic. It's the same book otherwise.
A Perfect Tonic was reviewed in Susan Low's The Kitchen Bookshelf column in Falstaff International.
She writes:
Drinks writer Camper English’s deep interest in science fuels The Perfect Tonic. The book explores the history of fermented and distilled beverages, from the Indian Vedic period (2500-200 BCE) to the modern day, via the Ancient Greeks, and venturing into China, Persia and beyond.
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It’s an intoxicating book, combining equal parts medicinal lore and history, and fizzing with factual oddities. An entertaining read that deserves to be savoured slowly over a Negroni or two.
I'm very pleased with that review!
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