New quality controls are helping drink dump its rotgut reputation SANTA CATARINA MINAS, Mexico — Centuries before anyone ever heard of a margarita machine, before tequila shots became a rite of passage...
OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters Life!) - Mexico's traditional spirit mezcal, infamous as a firewater drink of the poor and for the worms bobbing around in its bottles, is suddenly cool and growing in popularity....
SANTA CATARINA MINAS, Mexico -- Centuries before anyone ever heard of a margarita machine, before tequila shots became a rite of passage and "with or without salt" entered the bartending lexicon,...
Director Ignacio Ortiz's film 'Mezcal' takes a page from Malcolm Lowry's 1947 novel By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer MEXICO CITY -- There's a saying that people here...