Finding Mezcal: A Journey into the Liquid Soul of Mexico, with 40 Cocktails (Ron Cooper, Chantal Martineau) Italian containing Receipts for Plain Cookery

containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families

fermented corn drink

Guzman transforms simple ingredients

with maps and illustrations depicting a wide swath of subjects related to corn

Finding Mezcal: A Journey into the Liquid Soul of Mexico, with 40 Cocktails (Ron Cooper, Chantal Martineau) Italian containing Receipts for Plain CookeryIn 1990, artist Ron Cooper was collaborating with craftspeople in Oaxaca, Mexico, when he found mezcal or, as he likes to say, mezcal found him. This traditional spirit was virtually unknown in the United States at the time, and Cooper founded Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal in order to import it. Finding Mezcal recounts Cooper's love affair with the spirit and the people who make it; its meteoric rise in popularity; and the delicate balance between