Thu, Jun 08
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Gary Nabhan, Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals
Agave Spirits takes the reader on a journey through the prehistory, recent history and future of mezcals, tequilas and other uses of desert-adapted agaves. Acclaimed ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan & pioneering restauranteur David Suro Piñera delight in the diversity of the distillate agave spirits.
Date, Time & Location
Jun 08, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation featuring Gary Nabhan, and will be live-streamed to Zoom, register for Zoom here.
Copies of Agave Spirits can be purchased online from CW here or by calling the store (505) 988-4226.
The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila.
All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave entrepreneurs, botanists, distillers, beverage distributors, bartenders, and more. Agave Spirits celebrates "biodiversity in a bottle:--- how mezcals draw upon a richer variety of plant species and fermentation microbes than any other distillate in the world. And it also tells the story of the farmworkers and distillers who may be hidden from view, but remain "essential workers" in a rapidly changing industry that faces environmental perils and social justice issues.
Nabhan and Suro Piñera endeavor to track down the more…