Pulque is a drink of place — something you have to have near or where it is made. It doesn’t travel. But it’s not the only such drink in the world. Eating to Extinction author Dan Saladino compares pulque to a drink made by the Hadza hunter-gatherers. It’s a cross-cultural episode of Agave Road Trip!

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 Reina Cortés Cortés and A&V La Casa del Pulque in Santiago Matatlan, Oaxaca, click here.

To learn more about the Hadza, click here and listen to Dan’s radio program documenting his visit with them!