Mezcal Rush: Explorations in Agave Country

Title: Mezcal Rush: Explorations in Agave Country
Author: Granville Greene
H: 1707040
ISBN: 9781619028449
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2017
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 295
Section: Cooking | Regional & Cultural | Mexican
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: "A rich, inclusive portrait of one of the world's great drinks." --Kirkus Reviews

Mezcal. In recent years, the oldest spirit in the Americas has been reinvented as a pricy positional good popular among booze connoisseurs and the mixologists who use it as a cocktail ingredient. Unlike most high-end distillates, most small-batch mezcal is typically produced by and for subsistence farming communities, often under challenging conditions. As Granville Greene spends time with maestros mezcaleros, who distill their drinks using local agaves and production techniques honed through generations, mezcal becomes a spirit of contradictions--both a liquid language celebrating village identity and craftsmanship, and a luxury export undergoing a gold-rush-style surge. The Mezcal Rush explores the complications that can arise when an artisanal product makes its way across borders.