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...spend last December stockpiling Champagne? Sucker. Instead of getting ready for a bubbly crisis that never came, you should have been stashing away the harder stuff, tequila. Since last year, farmers in and around the tequila-producing Mexican state of Jalisco have been facing shortages of agave, the spiky-leafed member of the lily family from which the spirit is distilled. Agave's price has leaped from about $40 a ton a year ago to a high of $560 a ton last December. If the shortage continues--and the agave plant's grandfatherly maturation time of eight to 12 years...
Before the boom, when the current agave crop was being planted, the international market for tequila was decidedly downscale. "People knew tequila as what they drank in college to get drunk," says Alex Alejandro, co-owner of New York City's oldest Mexican restaurant, El Parador. The restaurant has stocked premium tequilas for all its 40 years, but it hasn't always found a ready buyer. "Ten years ago, the average consumer wasn't willing to pay more than about $4 a shot," says Alejandro...
...Strangely, Carlos has never visited the United Kingdom, yet he admits to speaking in an English accent when giving public speeches. His parents, Mexican immigrants, "were kind of disturbed at first because they're conservative." It is no wonder when one discovers Carlos political leanings in the British political machine: Liberal. Despite his politics, he supports the British royal family as an "essential part of British identity." On the other hand, he castigates President Clinton's indiscretions and thinks he should have resigned. "I was just pissed at the Republicans for revealing unnecessary details," Carlos states. That sounds like anti...
Javier Francisco Ovando is famous today, but back in 1996 no one much cared when cops stormed his apartment near downtown Los Angeles and shot him in the chest and head. Ovando belonged to the 18th Street Gang, a group of powerful Mexican drug lords. At trial, the judge lectured the skinny 19-year-old--who lay paralyzed on a gurney--for threatening the lives of two brave cops, and sent him away for 23 years...
When finished, the Dunster Street front of the store will be the entrance to Mamacita Taqueria, which will serve Mexican-style tacos and burritos, prepared by a Mexican chef and served by a Latin American staff, according to Clarence...