蜜柚直播 has a lot of love for this spiny character.
The first Agave Heritage Week kicks off at Hotel Congress this week with a series of events highlighting the indigenous plant鈥檚 鈥渟pirited鈥 influence on our culinary legacy. What began as a tribute to tequila eight years ago is now a full-week homage to everything agave.
鈥淭he agave plant has such deep roots in the culture and history of the Mexican people that you can鈥檛 quantify how great this product is without understanding the actual story of the plant and how it impacts the entire Mexican culture,鈥 said Todd Hanley, Hotel Congress鈥 general manager. 鈥淢ezcal is as close to farm to table as you can get in the world of spirits.鈥
Agave Heritage Week advances an event that began almost a decade ago by certified mixologist Aaron Defeo as a tequila-tasting, but its popularity has enabled Hotel Congress to grow it into a week of seminars, tastings, art and entertainment, partnering internationally with the Mexican Consulate and Vamos a 蜜柚直播 to make it happen, Hanley said.
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The ultimate goal, Hanley said, is to have people see 蜜柚直播 and the agave plant as natural partners. Though the week culminates with an uber-tequila tasting and live music-Agave Fest on Saturday, May 7, the agave鈥檚 culinary side takes center stage on Friday, when Chef Janos Wilder hosts the second annual Agave Dinner at The Carriage House.
鈥淚t鈥檚 going to be super fun,鈥 said Wilder, who will hold the dinner at his newly-open downtown event space. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 do these very often. This menu will probably never be seen again.鈥 The five-course meal, by a team of chefs from Maynards Market & Kitchen and other restaurants, infuses the agave plant throughout the entrees and crafted cocktails.
Wilder takes on the third course for the night, preparing lamb two ways in a dish that also includes his signature Native Seeds/SEARCH mole. 鈥淭his is a mole I developed years ago,鈥 said Wilder, who has devoted himself to the native 鈥渇lavor profiles鈥 of the Southwest since he opened his first downtown restaurant in 1983. 鈥淚 began to slowly open my eyes to where I lived 鈥 to the gastronomic history here, to what I call the cultural culinary icons of the region.鈥
The dinner will also include talks by master mezcalier Sergio Inurrigarro and Rodrigo Medell铆n, a UNAM ecologist known as the 鈥渂at man of Mexico鈥濃 bats pollinate agaves. Wilder said Medellin will explain the future of mezcal production that could be more bat-friendly.
Tickets are $95 per person and benefit Native Seeds/SEARCH, a nonprofit that aims to conserve indigenous seed lines in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. For more information and to buy tickets to Agave Heritage Week events and seminars, please visit the
