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Stewart opens by distinguishing documented botanical and production history from attractive but weakly sourced drinking lore, and she names experts and practitioners when presenting contested claims. That makes the book most useful as a map to questions and attributed testimony, not as the final authority for disputed facts.
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Preface — The Drunken Botanist
Verified against printed pp. xiii–xiv / PDF sheets 14–15 during the complete 386-sheet textual and visual review.
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