Because beverages are so very ethnobotanical…. I will be one of the scientists at the ‘Beverages, bubbles and brews’ pub quiz at Chelsea Physic Garden in May, along with forensic botany expert Dr Mark Spencer, chef Tom Kerridge, and garden experts from the garden. Starting with a sunset walk around the garden guests will have four courses of food, drinks and questions. Bookings are via Chelsea Physic Garden events
Drinks recipes in books
Just out in ‘The World Atlas of Street Food’ is a recipe for Snow fungus and pear soup, a winter drink, in a piece I wrote about Beiyuanmen in Xian a market at the end of the Silk Road that brims with flavour from ancient trade routes . I also wrote a few drinks recipes for ‘Kew’s Teas, Tonics and Tipples’.