More and more Americans are getting into mezcal, and that’s good news for a new generation of artisanal farmers and producers.
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Archaeologists: Skeletal remains linked to pulque god (photos,video)
Archaeologists in Tlaxcala, Mexico have discovered skeletal remains of a high-ranking figure in Aztec ruins that are linked to the pulque god, as well as “the cooked vertebrae and ribs of at least three different infants.”
Excavations at the Zultépec-Tecoaque archaeological site, home to the Acolhua between A.D. 1200 and 1521, have uncovered human remains in a cistern, a throne made from volcanic rock, and a cylindrical stone carved with the image of the Aztec god Ometochtli.
Mas…Archaeologists: Skeletal remains linked to pulque god (photos,video)
Ask A Mexican: Should Mexicans move to the South? (video)
It’s complicated, but Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano considers the future of Mexican-Americans in the South and suggests it’s the new, unconquered Aztlan ripe for the Reconquista Part II. After all, paisas and good ole’ boys are the same with the horses and the whiskey and the marrying their second cousins, right? (Gustavo’s art courtesy Memo Nerricio’s Tex[t]-Mex Gallery and Steve Alvarez’ Mexington.
José-Ariel Cuevas: Sweet Lady Añejo (poem)
I stare at my third tumbler full of tequila,
looking at it like I did the other two,
with reverence at this golden,
earth-bound ambrosia,
aged a year or more in old whiskey barrels…
‘How Tequila Is Made,’ ‘Maguey, Plant of 1000 Uses’ (videos)
Tequila — real tequila — can only be made from the blue agave. This short British documentary explains the process.
But wait, there’s more. How about the 1952 Ralph Adams documentary Maguey: Plant of a Thousand Uses:
Mas…‘How Tequila Is Made,’ ‘Maguey, Plant of 1000 Uses’ (videos)