Dan Saladino has traveled the world documenting the stories of our most endangered foods. He would argue that we need to protect them, for our future food security, for the good of the planet, and for the good of our own health. And Chava and I are all for that — but we’re also all for another person in the car to argue with. So we took Dan on an Agave Road Trip, and all you get is this episode.

Agave Road Trip is a critically acclaimed, award-winning podcast that helps gringx bartenders better understand agave, agave spirits, and rural Mexico. It’s hosted by Lou Bank and Chava Periban. 

Episode Notes

Listen to Dan Saladino on BBC Radio 4’s “The Food Programme” and read his book, Eating to Extinction.

To learn more about the Slow Food Ark of Taste, click here. (And to read their entry on pulque, click here.)

To learn more about Lalo Angeles and his Lalocura brand of agave spirits, click here.

Special thanks to Agave Road Trip poet laureate Larry Beckett for the poetry break he provided while we helped clear the pine tree from the road. The excerpt is from “Old California,” one of the epic poems from American Cycle. To learn more about Larry, click here.

And to get a bottle of Roadblock by Chava, click here.

Road-tripper Arian Deutsch got curious about the pochote tree that Dan and Chava talk about, did a little research, and sent in this interesting link! (Thanks, Arian!)