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Activated Charcoal Makes your Cocktails Black, Your Teeth White, and Your Poop Firm
Episode 115
Is it just me or is activated charcoal suddenly in everything? We’re joined by our Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Ryan Aycock (the Emergency Room Do…
3 years, 9 months ago
What You Don’t Know About Pulque, Part Two
Episode 114
Pulque is fleeting — it’s here, it’s gone. But does that mean it’s harder to make than mezcal? Chava and I duke it out over a subject neither of us c…
3 years, 10 months ago
What You Don't Know About Pulque, Part One
Episode 113
A year or so back, Alvin Starkman introduced us to Reina Cortés Cortés at A & V La Casa del Pulque. We had a Bordeaux barrel gifted to us by the kind…
3 years, 10 months ago
Hernán Cortés Declares Pulque was Always for the People
Episode 112
Chava found a letter from Hernán Cortés to Carlos V from 1520, and now we're pretty sure that everyone who claims pulque was only for royalty is wron…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Secret Origin of Rick Bayless
Episode 111
Normally, Chava and I interview someone for an hour, pull a 90-second quote from that interview, then build an episode by bickering around that quote…
3 years, 10 months ago
Your Perfect Thanksgiving in Mexico City!
Episode 110
In November 2021, we celebrated Thanksgiving in Mexico City! It was great fun, but we learned a lot of lessons on the way. If you want to celebrate …
3 years, 11 months ago
Babies or Booze? Agaves Can’t Make Both… or Can They?
Episode 109
All alcohol starts life as sugar, and the sugars used to make agave spirits like mezcal and tequila come from … agave! But the energy source that bec…
3 years, 11 months ago
Tequila and the Myth of the Low-Glycemic Index
Episode 108
There’s this idea that, somehow, tequila and mezcal are healthier to drink because sugar from agave has a lower glycemic index than other sugars. Our…
3 years, 11 months ago
Is the Mezcal Worm Cultural Heritage or Crass Marketing?
Episode 107
If you believe the mezcal geeks, no self-respecting mezcalero would ever adulterate their multi-generational spirits with gusanos or scorpions or any…
3 years, 11 months ago
Mezcal Cristalino: Threat or Menace?
Episode 106
When Maluma announced he was releasing a cristalino mezcal, a corner of the world went nuts: tens of thousands of his fans, excited to try it, and hu…
3 years, 11 months ago