In Mezcal in Oaxaca: A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace, anthropologist Ronda Brulotte invites us to step back and take in a broad and critical view of mezcal: a…
Book Review: Mezcalla: Tradición y cultura del mezcal michoacano, coordinated by América Minerva Delgado Lemus. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. (2020) Seven years ago, the late, legendary Catarina Illsey and Jorge Larsen…
Book Review: El Vino de Cocos en la Nueva España: Historia de una Transculturación en el Siglo XVII by Paulina Machuca. El Colegio de Michoacán A.C. (2018). Paulina Machuca’s El…
Mexico’s Secretariat of the Economy (SE) has sanctioned and fined the Mezcal Regulatory Council (CRM) for “deceptive, abusive” practices over the past three years. In two strongly worded June 30…
My new favorite tequila isn’t really a tequila, legally. It was made by a man whose family has been making tequila for centuries longer than laws defining tequila have existed….
I’m about to share some very intimate details of my life with you. Well, kind of. I’m an extremely private person, despite the intensely social nature of my work. In…