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!

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.

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.