{"id":1802,"date":"2009-08-22T03:40:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T03:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2009-08-22T03:40:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T03:40:04","slug":"mezcal-por-todo-mal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/mezcal-por-todo-mal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mezcal: Por Todo Mal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>In 2008 photographer Caroll Taveras and I traveled through Mexico to learn more about a spirit that offers much more than a worm in it&#8217;s bottle. Mezcal is at once an ancient, revered mystical cure-all, sometime-prohibited outlaw and meticulously crafted moonshine. We learned much of it&#8217;s history but also a glimpse of its future. <\/p>\n<p> I met Don Angeles at the weekend organic market, Pochote, in Oaxaca, mezcal\u2019s spiritual home. He was rattling bottles of mezcal and asking passersby to sniff. 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