Using their long tongues, bats reach into agaves' flowers to feed and to collect pollen on their face and fur (Credit: Alamy) Conservationists and communities are planting thousands of agave plants to ...

from Oaxaca City to Santiago Matatlán winds through the vast central valley of Oaxaca, an arid plain walled by scrub-colored hills. You’ll know you’re getting close when rows of what look like giant ...

Sosima Olivera, a member of a collective that runs a mezcal factory, in a field of espadin agave in Villa Sola de Vega, Oaxaca state, Mexico, July 26, 2022. PEDRO PARDO / AFP On hillsides, in rocky ...

Maddy Sweitzer-Lammé is a passionate and voraciously hungry home cook and eater. She's been writing about food in all its forms since 2014 and is a big believer that anyone can and should love to cook ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Emily writes about what’s in your glass and why it matters. If you’re familiar with tequila and mezcal, you might think you know ...

Jake Emen is a travel, food, and drinks journalist with more than a decade of experience. He serves as a judge for a number of international spirits and cocktail competitions, and as a voter for a ...

In resort towns across Mexico, the hospitality industry is celebrating all things agave, the sacred native succulent that provides the nectar for tequila, mezcal and other spirits. Agave spirits were ...

Cocktail drinkers in the U.S. have fallen more and more in love with a smoky spirit from Mexico called mezcal. From the mezcal margarita to the mezcal mule, it's a favorite in American bars. And ...

México, 9 mar (EFE).México, 9 mar (EFE). — Cosméticos, productos farmacéuticos o alimenticios son algunos de los nuevos usos de los diferentes tipos de agave, la planta con la que se elaboran el ...

“Oh, look, this one is hiding,” Isela Islas Montiel says as she digs into the tiny tunnels at the bottom of a rotting agave leaf. Like kids in a schoolyard, we wait as cherry-red chinicuil worms, the ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with The Washington Post's investigative reporter Kevin Sieff about the shortening supply of agave plants in Mexico. Cocktail drinkers in the U.S. have fallen more and more in ...