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Tommy's Mexican Restaurant is a homey little joint with red vinyl booths and murals of Mayan ruins. Papa Thomas Bermejo greets customers, while daughter Candy punches the cash register and son Julio presides behind the bar. The roar of ice crushers blends with mariachi brass. The waitress, in a worn T shirt, scuttles about at 78 R.P.M., hoisting platters of sizzling enchiladas...
...brands of the Mexican drink--varieties derived from the juice of the spiky agave plant and far pricier than the sugarcane-diluted rotgut of college frat parties. Tommy's Blue Agave Club, the nation's largest tequila-tasting group, boasts connoisseurs from five continents among its 5,000 members. Julio gives seminars in France, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. And when Mexican distillers visit Tommy's, patrons ask for their autographs. "They get rock-star status," he said...
...none take tequila tippling with as much tongue-in-cheek seriousness as Tommy's. Sidle up to the bar, and the effervescent Julio Bermejo, 43, a political-science graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, launches into Tequila 101. An explanation of the differences among silver (unaged), reposado (aged at least two months) and anejo (aged at least a year) is only the start. Join the club for $10, sample 35 pure-agave brands (no more than three per visit), and you will get an oak-framed "tequila master's" diploma and a T shirt. But to attain a "Ph.D...
...photographer Gary Laufman was telling his date about a tequila flavored with habanero peppers. "I wanted to call 911," he said. "They could use it at Cape Canaveral." Tex Currie, 49, a securities broker, boasted that he could identify 50 tequilas in a blind test. Such aficionados often join Julio's annual tour of distilleries in Jalisco, in central Mexico, where most tequila is made. And the sight of them brings smiles to Mexican farmers, as they scramble to plant more agave...
When a nation doesn't have a great wealth of winter sportsmen it has to improvise. Venezuela is a case in point. The South American country's three-man team in the luge competition will consist of Werner and Christopher Hoeger, residents of Boise, Idaho, and Julio Cesar Camacho, who hangs out in Calgary, Canada. No matter where they live, the Hoegers have already established an Olympic record?as the first father and son to compete together in the luge. Father Werner, 48, on a year-long sabbatical from his teaching job at Boise State University, is happy just...