Slow Drinks, Danny Childs

A quick foray outdoors is all the inspiration you need to make your next drink-alcoholic or not. Weeding the garden might yield the makings for Dandelion Mead, while an early spring walk reveals the green shoots perfect for brewing Spruce Beer. Danny Childs brings his training as an ethnobotanist to the world of drinks, and with loving regard for even the humblest ingredients, explores each season's offerings to make sodas, syrups, wines, beers, and amari.

Organized by season,Slow Drinksteaches home cooks, industry pros, home brewers, and foragers how to transform botanical ingredients-whether gleaned, grown in the garden, or purchased from the store-into singular beverages and cocktails. With transporting photography and gorgeous colour illustrations,Slow Drinks is the definitive guide to backyard mixology that can live just as comfortably in your basket on a foraging trip, as it can on the coffee table as a conversation piece.

The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide

The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide is an everyday reference for the utilitarian in us all. This guide book is a considered collection of how-tos perfect for anyone who wants to live a slow and thoughtful life. Each instructional section is prefaced by an expert and includes original artwork. Topics include everything from how to care for cast-iron pans to a guide to making soap.

Dining In: Alison Roman

Alison Roman is known as much for her keeper recipes as her wry Instagram voice and effortless style. Her debut cookbook features 125 recipes for simple, of-the-moment dishes that are full of quickie techniques (think slathering roast chicken in anchovy butter, roasting citrus to bring out new flavors, and keeping boiled potatoes in your fridge for instant crispy smashed potatoes). Roman’s recipes set today’s trends and will show up as tomorrow’s classics: vegetable-forward with quality ingredients, punctuated by standout flavors like hot honey browned butter, preserved lemon, za’atar, and garlicky walnuts.

The Colors Of Life

The Colors of Life transports readers to people and places of the early 20th century through the lens of color photography. This compilation showcases over 200 photographs enhanced by Stuart Humphryes capturing people from various cultural backgrounds in their everyday lives, at leisure, and at work. With the use of color photography, these individuals and their stories come to life in a way that black-and-white photos simply cannot match. The book reminds us that color has the power to evoke personal and shared emotions that resonate across time. The Colors of Life is a captivating journey into the past, allowing readers to see and experience history in a new and vibrant light. 

Birds

 1. BIRD: Exploring the Winged World. | 2. A Book of Birds, Humphrey Ocean. | 3. New Photography of Birds.