EPISODE · Oct 17, 2024 · 34 MIN
10,000 Years of Agave History
from Heritage Mezcal · host Marcela Sandoval, Chava Periban, Roy Sierra
Agaves and humans have always had an intimate relationship but, believe it or not, a significant part of if has nothing to do with booze. As we've discussed before in this podcast agaves provided to our ancestors with many charms; from clothing to nourishment. But given the fact that many of these relationships have disappeared, this wider understanding of agave is quite hard to imagine. That is why Marcela Sandoval has been researching how and why and with which consequences did humans domesticated agave. While most of us keep on speculating how agave fields looked a few decades ago, she gets to inspect traces that go back thousands of years. Please welcome Marcela and the incredible agave-stories that she has to share.
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Agaves and humans have always had an intimate relationship but, believe it or not, a significant part of if has nothing to do with booze. As we've discussed before in this podcast agaves provided to our ancestors with many charms; from clothing to nourishment. But given the fact that many of these relationships have disappeared, this wider understanding of agave is quite hard to imagine. That is why Marcela Sandoval has been researching how and why and with which consequences did humans domesticated agave. While most of us keep on speculating how agave fields looked a few decades ago, she gets to inspect traces that go back thousands of years. Please welcome Marcela and the incredible agave-stories that she has to share.
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