Para todo mal, mezcal…para
todo bien, también.
I saw that scrawled on a bathroom wall in a bar in Mexico
City. “For all that’s good, mezcal…and for the bad stuff too.” Except that in
Spanish, it rhymes. Sort of. It’s bar loo graffiti wisdom, which I've always felt should be taken seriously.
We came back from our trip Mexico with this bottle
of El Mero mero, from Oaxaca.
It’s a beaut. Translating loosely from its own label and
based on what I’m tasting, it’s a clean and bright, smoky and vaguely metallic.
It’s un-aged, so clear as water. And I’ve
been serving it with orange slices, which I dust with a little smoked paprika
(I suspect they can be sprinkled with piquín instead).
And for heaven’s sake, don’t shoot this stuff! Sip it slow,
while eating oranges and other nibblies. With my friend Mika, we ate Soma’s Old
School chocolate instead of oranges, which was just as perfect.
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