This book was thoroughly original and enchanting in its freshness. Even if you've never wildcrafted before, a quick glance through this book will have you digging out a basket and some hiking shoes!

The Wildcrafted Cocktail has been chosen by The Marvelous Site as the MARVELOUS NONFICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH. The following review is a reviewaka, which is based on an ancient Japanese poetry form. (To learn more about, you can visit http://tinyurl.com/reviewakas.)

The Wildcrafted Cocktail
by Ellen Zachos
c2017

forest to pantry
basics to extremely wild
tasty concoctions

unique deliciousness mixed
with beautiful visuals

MM

Homemade cocktails will be the best.....There are so many recipes to make your own cocktail.......

This book literally blew my mind. So interesting and such a new concept (for me).
It's another dimension in the cocktail world.

Delicious, delicious, boozy goodness - a wonderful collection of drink recipes featuring foraged fruits, herbs, berries, etc. It's even full of tips on how to make your own syrups and how to properly forage ingredients. The drinks sound amazing. I'd love to try all of them, but maybe not all at once, as that would surely result in me dying of alcohol poisoning. A good book for Spring and Summer, as those are the best seasons for these sorts of drinks. Also: berry season!

Some of these recipes sound seriously delicious. Others, like the Hobbit Hollow, which features acorn and mushroom flavors sound like Radagast the Brown wrote them (as a friend commented when I read her the recipe) and I'm not entirely sure they're flavors I'm willing to try. I'm enthusiastically waiting for the weather in the Pacific Northwest to warm up so that I may try foraging for some of the ingredients needed to make some of these tasty sounding cocktails and infusions!

I'll be honest, foraging for some of the ingredients used in the book is more work than I'll ever be willing to put in, but there's a nice selection of recipes I can make from things I have easy enough access to in my own yard or friends' yards. I haven't yet made any of the recipes because the ones I want to try are out of season, but I'm looking forward to when they are in season and I can try them out! The recipes are easy enough to follow and I anticipate interesting tasting results!

This book was beautifully designed with lovely photographs and a fun Northwest style throughout the book, even though it's inclusive of foraged foods from other regions of the country. My only gripe is that I wish recipes had some kind of visual cue as to what season to forage the ingredients in. So many of the foraged ingredients are seasonal, it would be nice to have an at-a-glance way to tell what recipes I can make in each season, rather than having to research every ingredient before I can decide what to make when. I appreciated the responsible foraging tips Zachos included throughout.

This recipe book is as interesting as it is unique. It would be awesome to go out foraging for materials to make mixed drinks. The recipes look simple enough to do once you acquire the materials and make the syrups and such. I don't think I have the skill to do this myself, but I'd love to rope in a couple of friends to help me out. I look forward to trying the sumac spritzer. (We have a lot of wild sumac where I live.)

Being a fan of garden-to-glass mixology I enjoyed this book's approach to some unique cocktails. Some of the recipes I'm looking forward to trying include the nettle soda (with a splash of whiskey of course!), the persimmon margarita, chanterelle syrup, and the grapefruit-mugwort soda. Mmm!

This is a beautiful book with fabulous recipes and photographs. Highly recommend!

Beautifully laid out and engagingly written, "The Wildcrafted Cocktail" offers interesting and original mixology ideas that utilize foraged materials. The drinks were interesting without sounding outlandish, and the photography is top-notch.

It's a sweet book with great photography and interesting drink recipes. This collection will appeal to those who live in a wooded area or a specialized farmer' market and have an affinity for thinking outside the box in their culinary adventures. Not for the casual mixologist.

Weeds...How I hate thee. I struggle to wrench you out in great sysophean effort. Oh, look! A book about foraging cocktails. I opened this book to one of the first botanical photographs and noticed that these are the same weeds I struggle to get rid of on the side of my house every week. *Blink* *blink* Are you telling me we can eat these stupid things? Do I want to eat these green pests? Yes. Yes, I do! I shall consume my enemy!
This is a scavenger hunt and at the end you get to have a drink. Not just a drink you get at a bar. A delicious dynamic tasting masterpiece with “unbuyable flavors”. I abhore the overly sweet drinks they call cocktails available for mass intoxication. I think we are overly cautious about picking wild plants for consumption, thinking we will keel over. As Zachose says, “if your old enough to drink, your old enough to be responsible to make intelligent, educated choices about what you choose to eat.” the books Is very informative without being overly technical. Anyone can enjoy this book. Each foraged item has a picture with details about picking and then a recipe with an enticing picture of said cocktail. If nothing else, It will get you to weed your

This is a beautiful book of cocktail recipes. The formatting, fonts, and photos create a very "hip" appearance. I would not purchase this title for my library for geographic and demographic reasons, but I really enjoy it personally. I don't think foraging sounds very safe in South Florida and I don't think many of these ingredients grow in the wild here. I do like the recipes for grocery shopping the ingredients and for inspiration for creating cocktails from similar, available ingredients.