Agave Spirits is Now Available in Bookstores and Online
After four years of collaborating, interviewing, digging deep into archives & traveling to remote parts of Mexico, our wonderfully-designed book from W.W, Norton is now out in the stores! What we are happy about is that the dozen drawings by Rene Tapia beautifully capture the Mesoamerican and Aridamerican traditions of caring
Make the World a Better Place by Putting Agaves in their Appropriate Spot in Culture, Agriculture, and Food Systems
If Agave Spirits offers new hope for desert agriculture in the Southwest and Mexico, it is by imagining how important a variety of agave products--not just tequila and mezcal---will be in the future, IF they grow in ways that use less water and pull down more carbon than conventional crop
The Role of Agaves in Presilience at the Food/Water/Energy Nexus
Empowering Arid Cities in the US/Mexico Borderlands, to Use Succulent Crops in Regenerative Perennial Food Systems as Means to Reverse & Halt Climate Change “Our challenge is not only resilience, which is the power to rebound (re- “back” + salire “to jump, leap”). Our challenge is also what
Why Metro Tucson is the American City with the Greatest Agave Diversity
Metro Tucson harbors a minimum of 113 agave species in its streets, parks, gardens, and nurseries, more than half of all the agaves described in the world. No metro area in the world other than in Tucson (and perhaps in Mexico City’s El Pedrigal at the National Agave Collection of
Traditional Fermented Beverages of Mexico: A Biocultural Unseen Foodscape
Mexico is one of the main regions of the world where the domestication of numerous edible plant species originated. Its cuisine is considered an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and ferments are important components but have been poorly studied. Traditional fermented foods are still diverse, but some are endangered, requiring