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Anthony Boucherie

b. 1746

Best known for an early American whiskey manual, this little-known French-born writer brought practical trade knowledge to readers in the United States. His surviving works suggest a life spent turning specialized know-how into books people could actually use.

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The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain. Also, the Art of Converting It into Gin, after the Process of the Holland Distillers

The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain. Also, the Art of Converting It into Gin, after the Process of the Holland Distillers

by Anthony Boucherie

About the author

Anthony Boucherie was a French-born author active in the early 19th century, often cataloged as having been born in 1746 or 1747. He is best known for The Art of Making Whiskey (1819), a practical guide focused on distillation and gin-making that has remained of interest to historians of food, drink, and early industry.

Library and catalog records also connect him with other useful, trade-focused writing. These include The Merchants' Unerring Guide to the East India and China Trade (published in Philadelphia in 1807) and a petition to Congress concerning a sugar-refining process, which suggests he worked across commerce, manufacturing, and applied techniques rather than purely literary subjects.

Very little clear biographical detail seems to survive beyond these records, so his books do most of the talking. What comes through is the profile of an instructive writer: someone interested in improving processes, sharing methods, and making technical knowledge available to working readers.