Quarantine Cookbook Series Part 1: Made in Mexico
2019 was definitely the year of the Mexican cookbook, and thank goodness because it looks like we’ll have plenty of time on our hands to be doing a lot of cooking in 2020. Last year we saw cookbook debuts from some of the biggest names and rising stars in Mexican...
Tantalizing hints that mezcal history is being rewritten
Recent discoveries along the Dead Sea in Israel point to a much more ancient history for mezcal. An archeological team led by Dr. Bevitore of the Universitá dello Scherzino in Siena discovered organic residue in ceramic cups while excavating a cave in the area. The...
A special Mezcal Tosba collaboration
A funny little thing passed across my desk this morning and had this happened BC (before Coronavirus) I would have flagged it and gotten back to it eventually. But with more time on my hands I can actually read more articles, even ones with headlines like “New...
A virtual program platform for the times – Conversations in Agave
What happens when the world is forced to shut down and all of the usual gathering places and events to learn about agave spirits are shuttered? Well, we get creative and put together an online program platform of interactive talks and demos with different...
Capón
Capón means castrated in Spanish and that’s basically what it means when applied to agave. The agave life cycl is simple, they sprout, mature over years – potentially decades depending on the variety – flower so that they can reproduce, and die. As...
The intersection of feminism, mezcal, and economic development
The below post is by contributing author Joahna Hernandez who is based in CDMX. She is the founder of Manos de Maiz, a binational company that provides fresh ground masa to restaurants in D.C. and corn based foods in CDMX. Doña Delia Vargas was born in a family of...
Bacanora: Another great Mexican distilling tradition
My trip last year to Tucson’s Agave Heritage Festival was amazing for so many reasons but one of the most tasty was an in depth introduction to bacanora. Bacanora is a tiny mezcal appellation in the mountains of Sonora. Not only did I get to taste more bacanoras than...
Crisis is the mother of creativity
Watching the explosion of responses to the Coronavirus crisis within the bar and spirits world has been amazing. It reaffirms what all of us know, that this is an amazing community of people dedicated to their jobs and the people around them. Whether it’s Bobby...
Where we stand
I can’t tell you how many times I have started to write this post, only to be blindsided yet again by more news and school closings and shelter in home instructions. It is impossible to even articulate how much our world has changed in just a week. It has become...Where to Buy Mezcal
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