Amore Amaro

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Here are some resources that will bring you into the world of amaro and medieval European botanical traditions, and give you info and insight about the cultivation of plants.

• Culpepper, Nicholas. Culpepper’s Color Herbal. David Potterton, ed. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1983.
• González Blanco, Marta Isabel. “An edition of the Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai.” MPhil thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018.
• McLean, Teresa. Medieval English Gardens. New York: Viking Press, 1980 (p. 178).
• Meyvaert, Paul. “The Medieval Monastic Garden,” in Medieval Gardens (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquia on the History of Landscape Architecture, v9). Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1986.
• Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder. http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx.
• Opsomer-Halleux, Carméla. “The Medieval Garden and Its Role in Medicine,” in Medieval Gardens (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquia on the History of Landscape Architecture, v9). Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1986.
• Parsons, Brad Thomas. Amaro: The Spirited World of Bittersweet, Herbal Liqueurs, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas. New York: Ten Speed Press, 2016.
• Stewart, Amy. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2013.
• von Bingen, Hildegard. Hildegard’s Healing Plants, from Her Medieval Classic Physica. Bruce W. Hozeski, trans. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.
• Wheelwright, Edith Grey. Medicinal Plants and Their History. New York: Dover, 1974.
• Wood, Matthew. The Book Of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicine. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1997.